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A M E^I C A. Chap. VII. 



the Water was fall'n down, and then Storm'd the Fort ^ejlringa, and notwith- 

 {landing the Tortuguefe fir'd continually upon him with two Brafs Guns, he foon 

 became Mafter of it, and cutoff all thofe whom he found had born Arms j whileft 

 The Fo« Schuppe fir'd upon the Fort Margareta from a Platform, and alio threw Granado's in- 

 r^T by" to the fame. Jrcijfeusky likewife approach'd nearer and nearer with his Trenches, 

 scbupp,. onw [ lic j i t j ic f ortU g Ue fe difcharged many Guns ; but after the Breaftworks were 

 moft of them fpoil'd, the Governor, Simon de Albuquerque, furrendred the Fort to 

 Schuppe, who permitted a hundred and fifty Men that were in Garrifon there, to go 

 to their feveral Dwellings up in the Countrey, the reft were Tranfported to other 

 places, on promife that they would not bear Arms againft the IVeJl-India Company 

 during the fpace of fix Moneths. In the Caftle the Hollanders found fix Brafs Demi. 

 Culverins and fifteen Drakes, befides other Ammunition, with which the Victors 

 purfu'd their Conqueft, putting themfelves in a pofture to go up a Creek which 

 runs two Leagues along a River to <Parayba, and to fall upon that City, when two 

 French Renegado's coming from the Uprtbem Fort Jntonio brought information, 

 That that Fort Was guarded but by a few Men, and had but little Gun-powder, and 

 if the Hollanders would but once make a (hew of Storming the fame, it would foon 

 be deliver'd to them, though for its Situation it is invincible 5 but Schuppe fuppos'd 

 that there might be a Plot in this Information, and the rather, becaufe he heard 

 that the Duke of 'Bagmla was coming thither with fix hundred Men ; neverthelefs, 

 The Fort ^«- to De better affur'd thereof, he fent a Drummer to demand Antonio : The Gover- 



foitff taken « /• i •■ i r i I • i i 



by Lnhthmt. n or thereof, call'd Magaglianes defir a three days time to confider, which was utterly 

 deny'd him, and he had onely leave to carry away the King's Standard,. and his 

 Requeft granted, That the Hollanders fliould make a fliew of Storming the Caftle, 

 » that it might not be faid he had furrendred fuch a Fortrefs without a Gun being fir'd; 

 after which Ucbtbart went into the Caftle, wondring at fuch a Victory ; for the 

 Fort, on which no Charges had been fpar'd, lay upon an inacceflible place, and had 

 five B,raft Culverins and nineteen Iron Guns. 

 JkCi*yJ£ The Hollanders encourag'd by their good Succefs, went the fame Night up the 

 nu *"*' R* ver Varayba to the Creek Tambia _ Grande > where Landing, they found all the 

 Works empty, three Iron Guns lying difmounted on the Ground, the City farayba 

 without People, and the Guns about the fame either made ufelefs, or funk in the 

 Haven. A Hamburgher that had liv'd a confiderable umcin ( Parayba,othctwifc call'd 

 (pbilippca, inform'd the Hollanders, That Bagnola feeing no means to defend Tarayba, 

 was gone to Goyana with two Companies, one of Italians , and the other Spaniards, 

 who were march'd into the Woods, after they had burnt three Ships, and two 

 Store-houfes full of Sugar, in which there were confum'd near upon three hun- 

 dred Chefts. 



Before this Defign upon Tarayba was undertaken, the Wefi-lndia Company fent 

 out four Vcfiels under the Command of John Walbeek, to the Ifle Curacao • the Situa* 

 tion of which John Ot^pn knew exactly, having been a long time a Priloncr there : 

 Walbeek getting through a narrow Mouth between feveral Rock* into a convenient 

 Harbor before Curacao, Landed feventy five Mufquetteers who were Encountred 

 by feventy fBrafilians Arm'd with Clubs, which the Spaniards had animated to fight, 

 by making them half Drunk. The Hollanders having march'd all over the Ifland, 

 burnt the Village Maria, and at laft agreed with the Governor Jlonfo Lopes de Morla 

 to leave the Ifle. 



Schuppe chang'd the Name of Tarayba, or Hpjfa Sennora das Nieves, or Thilippea, into 

 Frederick'Stadt, in honor to the Prince of Orange, nam'd Frederick Henrick* 



This City hath two great Market-places, twelve Streets, and a large Franciscan 



Cloyfter, 



tiela 



Parayba) of 

 Henriclfftait 



defcrib'd. 



