Chap. VII. a M E%_1 C J. ^ 



tlL d pVT S t0 / C ° P ! C thiS Pla " Wkh M * M >*™> who might either live here 

 to the Pubhck good, or die with lefs Difgrace than in a Prifon. 



Towards the latter end of the Year , 64 , . Li ( W OT and Com weigh'd Anchor with iw <%, ,,. 

 eight great, and fix lefTer Ships, and Sail'd to the Ifland of Marion ; where 2 %$k 



onllV/" ^ Ck l St ' Lod ^> «»'ch'd immediately to the Fort, waflVd 

 on both fides with one R,ver, which there divides it felf into two Branches : the 



to C«„wuh Proffers that they would furrender on readable Articles: where- 

 upon Cm , granted them their Lives, and free pofle/fion of their Goods, and gave 

 leave t0 the Soldier. «o ftay i„ the City Si. liu.provided they had no Arms § ,tiU 



?hlvlT e aI? c^ MaHnCe '^ hiS C0Undl " **&- The »&"*" string 

 the Fort found fifty five great Guns, abundance of all manner of Provifions, and 



left fix hundred Men m Garrifon. But the new King of Portugal complain'd by his 



^ t ^^.^ ea ^ of f A «'*^^i*«rf«A, concerning the Tranfaftions 

 of the Wefi-ndta Company, who had taken the Wo, and the Ifles St. Thomas and 

 Af^ M «,from him. But he was anfwer'd, That thofc Places were taken either 

 before the ten years Peace was concluded with the Venule, or before the King 

 approvdofu, or at leaft before it was publifiVd. 



Ghrt* Maunce finding that he could not prevail by fair means with the Portugutfe 

 mZraJile, fought to do lomething by force of Arm,, becaufe the welfare of the Wei 

 ^Company depended folely upon the fortune of War ; his Defign lay towards 

 the South Sea whnher the Ships might the eafier Sail from Zrafile through the 

 Straps of Marian or Le Ma.re, becaufe in the Summer there blow for the mod 

 part Northern Wmds along the Coaft of America. There were likewife many good 

 Conven.encesin the Southern Ocean, not onely to furprize the rich Maniiha Tra- 

 ders but alfo to meet with the Peruvian Plate.Fleet j befides which, Enquiries 

 rrught be made with little Charges, if any Place were fit to Settle on for Trade in 

 the unknown South Land. 



This Year 1 641 was not onely remarkable for the Portugueses revolting from a ^ D* 

 the Spamards, but alfo for a great Deluge, which did much hurt in BrafiU. for they?"*"" 

 Rams fell fo exceeding hard without ceafing, that the fwoln Rivers every where 

 overflow d their Banks and Dams , the Plants were either wafh'd away, or were 

 eaten up by little Worms, which bred as foon as the Water began to fall. Befides 

 th,s Plague the Small-pox alfo rag'd amongft the People, of which many dy'd 

 and others lay lingring a great while. The Sugar-Mills likewife flood frill for 

 want oiNegro's, which the Diftemper had for the moft part deftroy'd, and the Su. 

 gar-Canes rotted in the Ground. 



Man while GraVe Maurice receiv'd news of the Agreement between the King of* p«cc ,- 

 Portugal and the States of the United Netherlands, according to which every one was to -™ ^' 

 keep what they had gotten by the War . Trading was free for all . againft all the %^ 

 Caftlesand Fortrefles in Merica, under thcKingof S/^'s Dominion, Hoftility was 5S**" 

 to be afted alike by both , the Countrey which lay between the utmoft Borders of 

 the Portuguefe and Netherlander!, were to be divided, that each might know their juft 

 Limits- all manner of Trade to the Spanifi, America was forbidden to both . each 

 Owner was to remain in pofleffion of the Goods which he had on the Day 'when . 

 this ten years Peace was proclaim'd. 



Grave Maurice feeing he could not get the States Confent to return home, fent fe T* 

 his Secretary Tolner to Holland, to inform the Wejt-India Company of the Condition **#* 

 ot Braftle, znd to requeft fuch things as were wanting there : Tolner accordingly ar« SSS' 

 rmng i n Holland, acquainted them with the Extent of their Dominions in %raJiU,ff '"*"' 



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