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for Hinder/on to Land! , who immediately march'd to the Town, which feterCJefdr 

 Menefes defended with nine hundred Tortuguefes, and fomethoufandsof Negro's, who £?*** 

 ftoodthefirft Onfet ; bnt Hnderfon falling upon them again, Co affrighted them/'""'" 

 that they fled . which Menefes perceiving, loon follow'd, and left him Mafter of the 

 City, m wh.ch he found onely a fewdrunken Soldiers, decrepid old People twenty 

 nine Brafs Guns, befides feveral Iron ones, and great plenty of Provifions and Am. 

 munition. Mean while Houte-been took thirty Ships hal'd near the Shore. 



This City is built on a Hill, and hath feveral fair Buildings and Cloy fters, d^ 

 amongft wh.ch the Jefmts and Qafuchms are the beft. Along the Sea-fhore at the " be "* 

 foot of the Mountain, ftands alfo a long Row of Houfes, near which Hinderfon im. 

 mediately caft up Bulwarks againft any Aflault, and likewife two Sconces, the big. 

 geft whereof is on the utmoft Point oi Loando, near the Fort Sibylla. 



Twelve Companies being left herein Garrifon, quite contrary to Menefes his ex. ***, in 

 pectation, who thinking that the Netherlanders came onely for Booty, and not to Stf ^ 

 take or keep the City by force of Arms, made his Complaints therefore by Letters 

 to Horn-been, alledging, That there was Peace made between the King of Portugal 

 and the United Netherlands, and that the former Afts of Hoftility were chang'd to 

 friendly Correfpondencies. But Houte.been anfwer'd, "That he knew not of any 

 '< fuch Agreement between Portugal and the Netherlands • and if he had known it, 

 " how mould he be fure whether Menefes held with the Caftilians or fortuguefes I If 

 " Menefes knew of this Agreement, and was of the Vortuguefe Party, why did he re- 

 ceive thofe as Enemies, whom he muft acknowledge as Friends ? His Complaints 

 " were now too late, fince the Hollanders had obtain'd the Victory with the lofs of 

 C( their Blood. 



Menefes therefore feeing no hopes to regain Loando, either by Complaints or 

 Force, defir'd eight days Ceflation of Arms, that in that time he might fit himfclf 

 to go from thence to another Place ; which the Netherlanders in Garrifon would not 

 hearken to, but commanded him to march away immediately fixteen Leagues fromT ** 



Loando. 



Mean white the Angolan Princes joyning with the Netherlanders, fell upon the <Por- 

 tuguefe where-e're they met them. Moreover, feveral Citizens return'd to Loando, 

 and proffer'd half their Negro's, if they might but have liberty to be Tranfportcd* 

 to St. Salvador with the other half ; but it was judg'd more convenient to keep 

 them, and by fair means alfo to invite the reft, becaufe it appear'd by the Mgo- 

 lan Accounts, that the profit of the ^ro-Trade amounted yearly to fixty fix Tuns 

 of Gold, the Charges of the Garrifon, and fitting out of the Ships being deduced ^E'^*" 

 from it. The Spanijh King had yearly above fifteen thoufand Negro's from hence to 

 employ in his Jmerkan Mines. 



Houte.been Sailing over from Loando to the Ifle of St. Thomas, Landed fome of his u Meof 

 Men over againft the Sugar-Mills of St. Juna, and ran with his Fleet to an Anchor *jJ*J- 

 near a fquare Caftle,with intention to ufe no Hoftility,unlefs provok'd . which the »«"*""• 

 Tortuguefe did by firing their Guns, and were anfwer'd by Houte.been, one of whofe 

 Ships call'd the Enchuifen was blown up . thofe that Landed alfo met with fome re- 

 fiftance from divers Nw°' s i 7" at laft they gain'd the Fort,in which they found fix 

 Guns, and foon after march'd into the Town VaVaofa, where the Inhabitants had 

 left nothing but empty Houfes . the great Caftle they were fore'd to let alone, be- 

 caufe the Scaling-Ladders would not reach to the top of the Walls, which were 

 twenty eight Foot high : But Houte-heen coming alhore, rais'd a Battery behind the 

 Church, from whence he fir'd with fix Demi-Cannons, and threw fixty five 

 Granado's amongft the Befieged, twenty whereof burft with fuch violence, that all 



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