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Camtr$n\ 

 Force* and 

 B*rbalio% 

 put to flight 

 by Coin, 



Portugutfes 

 Plot againft 

 the Netber- 

 hnitrt difco- 

 rer'd. 



AMERICA. Chap. VII. 



Ships oncly of the Dutch Engag'd with this great Spanijh Fleet, the reft never coming 

 within fliot ; wherefore the two Commanders, John Coopman%yk, and feter Jacobs 

 were condemn^ to be Beheaded; Cornells Jobnfeoon and feter Dirkfcon had their 

 Swords broke over their Heads by the common Hangman . Cornells Lucifer, Dirk 

 Eger, and Jacob ClaVor, were banifVd . and others came off by paying great Fines : 

 but the Spanijh Fleet loft in the four Engagements twenty Ships, and fomc thoufands 

 of Men, the Jofeph alone having four hundred (lain <in her. Laftly, anchoring near 

 the Itt&nd Margareta, the fortuguefe Admiral Qofmo de Couto, and the Captain.Gcneral 

 Francifco fimentello, falling out, the Spaniards Steer'd to Tercera, and from thence to 

 (ales, where there Landed but few Men, moftof them dying of Hunger and Thirft 

 in their Return home : Four Gallions,wichtwo Pinks,got into the Spanijh Harbors, 

 the reft being either ftranded before New Spain, funk, or return d to the Inltt Todos 



los Sanctos. 



Before the foremention/d Fleet weight Anchor from St. Salvador, two thoufand 

 fortuguefes, befides Tapuyans and other Brafilians, march'd under the Command 

 of Cameron, Vidal, and Barbalio, with divided Forces into the Countrey, partly to 

 get Provifion, and partly to do what mifchicf rhey could to the Hollanders, far 

 and near : their Orders were to joynin the Village St. Laurence, feven Leagues be 

 yond faomarello, that there they might make way for the Seamen to Land, if the 

 Netherland Forces fhould chance to guard the Sea.Coaft thereabouts, and to joyn 

 with themasfoon as they were Landed. But Grave Maurice encourag'd by his late 

 Victory at Sea, immediately fent the Field*Marflial Coin againft Cameron, who 

 diviidng his Army into fmall Companies ,, had diftributed them through the 

 Woods ; in which Coin followed his Example, and with divided Forces purfu'd 

 Cameron's Army, and overtook his Captain Tak and two hundred Men at foyuca, 

 ( whereof Lopes Sarbalio was Governor) who fled, notwithftanding he Commanded 

 fix hundred Men.) Soon after which the Muftcr-mafter Uanfveld met him near the 

 Village St. Laurence, Engagd him, and putting him to flight, found feveral Papers 

 of Concern that he had left behind, and amongft .others a Letter, in which Barbalio 

 was commanded to fpare neither Srafilians nor Netherlander alive, but to kill all, 

 without regard either to their Age or Quality, except the fortuguefe. Moreover, 

 JndriesVtdal urg'd the Owners of the Sugar-Mills in the Netherlander s Braftle, im* 

 mediately to take up Arms, to regain their ancient Freedom r as foon as Mafcarenhas 

 appear'd with the Spanijb Fleet on the Coaft of Brafile : Thus Vidal, by Letters and 

 private Conferences, prevail'd fo much, that moft of the fortuguefe were ready 

 againft their Oaths to root out the Netherlander : The .fign when they fhould be 

 ready, was the burning of fome Sugar.Mills, Vidal imagining thereby to have 

 drawn the Netherlander from the Sea.fide, and fo made the Sea-Coaft free for the 

 Spaniards to Land fecurely in. But the Garrifon under Coin along the Sea-fliore 

 near Alexis, not ignorant of the Enemy's Plot , kept their Stations, and fuf- 

 fer'd the Mills to burn. The like did Craey at the Promontory of St. Jugujline, 

 ficard ztf aomarello, Captain Day at Cantolaria, and Donker on Goyana h Hoogjlraet kept 

 Guard up in the Countrey ; Tourlon alfo fent out by Maurice againft Francifco Sofa 

 and Henrtck Dias, who had pillag'd all the Countrey about the River Conajou, fell 

 upon them in fuch a manner, that he deftroy'd eighty feven of them, and wounded 

 a considerable number more of them, made the reft flie to St. Salvador. 



Two Moneths before the Spanijh Fleet fet Sail from Todos los Sanclos, three thou- 

 fand Tapuyans came toftjo Grande with their Wives and Children, from an unknown 

 Countrey remote from the Sea. Grave Maurice requefted their King John de Wy,\.h& 

 he would pleafe to keep Watch along the Sea.Coaft, and prevent the Landing of 

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