taken by 



55 S AMERICA. Chap. VII. 



That Summer having been fo dry, that no man ever remembred the like, had 

 dry'd up all the MoraiTes, fo that the Spaniards marching over them and high Moun- 

 tains, got aback Way into the Countrey. In the mean time John V/albcck made a 

 Fort with five Bulwarks on the Ifland Caracao, near the Haven Santa Cru%. 



Houtebeen alfo ran with two Ketches, the Otter and Brack) to Anchor before Cura* 

 cao, and from thence to the Haven St. Jago de Cuba, where the Watch made no Alarm, 

 becaufe hecarry'd Burgundy Colours, by which alio fevcral others, both Tortuguefe 

 and Spaniards were deceived. Not long after he burnt one Barque with Tor toifes, 

 funk another, and fet a third a Drift ; after which having refrefh'd at Jamaica, he 

 Engag'd with feveral Spanifl? Men of War and took them, befidesa great number 

 of Prizes, in one of which he found fuch abundance of Copper, Indigo, Money, 

 Canajler, Tobacco, and Piece.Goods, that the two Ketches were not able to load the 

 fame ; but at at laft Steering for Holland, he was fet upon by feven Vunkirkcrs, Com- 

 manded by Colaert, and after long and ftout refiftance was taken. 



Captain Abraham %oofendael fetting Sail from the Texel, met with a Frigat carry- 

 ing forty fix Chefts full of <l{yals of Eight, being in number eighty fix thoufand, dc~ 

 fign'd to pay the Forces at Porto <%jco • befides a quantity of Plate, which amounted 

 to a confiderable fum of Money ; with all which he arriv'd fafc in his defired 

 Port. 



Jrcijfeusky [oxtid'd himfclf along the crooked River Paripuera, full of Crocodiles, 

 which hurt none, unlefs provok'd. This River runs five Leagues to the North- 

 ward of Puntade Jaragoa, where the Spanifl? Forces Landed. 



Southward from Jaragoa lie the Jlagoas del Ncrt and Zul, diftinguifh'd by a high 

 Trad of Land 5 where the Spamfii General Loots <%ocbd<s Borgia left his Guns and a 

 thoufand Men, under the Command of the Duke Bagnola, whileft with three times 

 as many more he went to Porto Calvo to be there before the time which the Hollan* 

 ders had in their Edicts fet the Inhabitants for their removal. 



Arcijfemky had by this time built on the North part of the Mouth of Paripuera a 

 Redoubt like a Caftle, out of the middle whereof rofe a woodden Tower, fill'd 

 with Earth, and fecur'd by a Half*Moon • on one fide whereof he lay Encamp'd 

 with fifteen Companies. On the South fide of the River flood alfo two ftrong 

 Forts. Arcijjemky having not the lead thought that Borgia would come over the 

 Mountains, and through inacceffible Woods and MoralTes, a back Way into Porto 

 Calvo, received news on the thirteenth of January 1636. by a Renegade Negro, that 

 the Spanijh Army, confiding of three thoufand Men, were come to P^drigo de Bar* 

 ros his Sugar*Mills, about five Leagues from Panpuera, and was fuddenly expeded 

 to fall upon Colonel Schuppe in Porto Calvo . whereupon Arciftemky immediately fet 

 forth with twelve hundred Men and two Field-pieces, burnt all the Houfes, Sugar* 

 Mills and Canes he could meet with. Mean while Borgia (upon whofe Approach 

 Schuppe had left Porto Caho) obferving by the Smoak in the Countrey, that Arcifiewky 

 had put his Edicts in Execution, leaving a confiderable Garrifon in Porto Qaho, 

 went to meet Arcifieusky with the choiccft Men. Arcifieutky being got between Ca* 

 martgibi and Porto Caho, without having any notice of the Enemy's being fo near, 

 and his Forlorn being unawares Engaged, and running back in great diforder, 

 drew up his Men into a pofture of Defence about a Mufquet*fhot from the Ene- 

 my ; but thedarknefs of the Night made a great confufion in both Armies, being 

 as it were mingled pell-mell one with another. Arcifieusky was much inferior in 

 number to the Spaniards, but confideringit was impoffible to march back, in regard 

 the Enemy was as well behind them as before, and that thoufands ofBraftlians lay 

 watching for them in the Woods, in cafe they fliould be difpers'd, he law there 



.was 



