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Men to a/hft the Citizens, and keep the woodden Battery, where the Tertugucfe 

 were ftopt, and with great and fmall Shot put to flight. The Prifoners which the 

 Hollanders took informed them, That Martin Snares, chief Commander over the Tor- 

 tugueje that made this Attempt, had divided his Men into three Parties; the Referve, 

 which confifted of three hundred Men, was to march on upon the making of a fign 

 when the other Parties were part, one along the River Bibinba, and the other along 

 the Shore by the Stone Redoubt into %euffa, to burn the Place, as alfo all manner 

 of Provifion and Ammunition. 



Whileftthis Defign of the fortugue/e fell out Co unfortunately, being difcover'd to 

 Qenlen by a Rencgado, the Hollanders at %ecijfa received two Companies from their 

 Regiment at the funtael, and a confiderable number of Men rais'd in Holland by the 

 Weft India Company. Ceulen and Byma thus fupply'd, went continually out in Par- 

 ties, burnt in view of the Garrifon in Arryal the Sugar-Mills belonging to Francifco 

 Montero arid Lewis ^amires, and were informed by five Italian Renegado's, That 

 there were not three hundred Men in Garrifon in Arryal $ which Co encourag'dBjwui, n,m* at- 

 that he refolving to fall upon the lame, march'd thither in the Night with a thou- taking of 

 land Men from %eciffa, and by Day*break (hot fixtcenGranado's from a neighbor- without fu©: 

 ing Hill, of which feven fell into Arryal, but did little Execution ; befides, the 

 Strength of the Place was fuch, and the number of Men fo confiderable, that his 

 Defign had no other fuccefs, than that a Hand«granado falling fliort amongft the 

 Houfes before the Fort, fet lire on them, and in a fliort time burnt a whole Street 

 with rich Shops, and the Habitations of the Italians. 



The fortuguefe at the Tuntael being inform'd,that Byma had Bcficg'd Arryal with a 

 thoufand Men, judg'd that mod of the Hollanders were gone thither from the TuntaeU, 

 which they were the apter to believe, becaufe the Hollanders coming but little 

 abroad ftay'd within their Redoubts, which Lickbart had joyn'd to a Battery j 

 wherefore they made another Attempt with a hundred and twenty Men on the 

 tPuntael 5 but a Carvel with two Brafs Guns, and a Company of Soldiers lying at 

 Anchor near the Place by which the fortuguefe were tp pafs, and they not expecting 

 to meet with any refiftance there, they were, as foon as they approached the Carvel, 

 fir'd upon by the Hollanders, who killing fcveral of their Men, fo affrighted them, 

 that they return'd without making any farther Attempt. 



Whileft every day more and more Prizes were taken by the Hollanders, and ^ w f [^ 

 brought into ^ecijfa f and frefli Supplies lent them from Holland, there began to be th * p ' rrM - 

 fome Overtures of Peace from the Vortuguefe - y wherein alfo the King of Spain, by 

 reafon of the feverai Damages he had fuftain'd from theDutcb, began to concern 

 himfelf, and to menace them with the great Forces he was able to raiie, by reafon 

 of the late fafc arrival of two rich Plate-Fleets, if they came not to reafonable 

 Terms. But anfwer was return'd from Byma, a That if they were minded to 

 l < Treat about giving of Quarter, or any fuch like Point in difference between them, 

 " they fhould find him ready ; but that the Wejldndta Company would never re- 

 " fign thofe Places taken in Brafile with the Sword, either for Money or Goods, 

 " but would defend them to the utmoft of their Power. 



The Hollanders alfo chang'd the Names of feverai Places taken from the Tortu- 

 guefe ; for the Caftie near the Promontory St. Auguftine was call'd Gyffeling , the 

 Town on Tamarica, Schuppetvftadt 5 the Fort at the Afogados, Trince William-, and the 

 funtael, The Fortrefs Vander Duff en. 



Notwithftanding the Requefts of the States of the Netherlands and IVeft -India Com- %£&£ 

 pany, to the Commiflioners Ceulen and Gyffeling, to (lay longer in the Wefilndies, turn home - 

 yet they prepared for their Voyage home, and the fpeedier, becaufe they expected 



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