The Fort C*L 

 varia taken 

 by the Ma- 

 ragnans and 

 others. 



570- A M E%^1 C A. Chap. VII. 



which reach'd from Mar agnan to the River %eal j with the necefllty of keeping the 

 Soldiery undisbanded, in regard the Portuguese were ready to take all advantages 

 notwithstanding the Articles of Agreement . with the difcontent of their owri 

 Men, and their readinefs to mutiny upon the report that they were to be Dif- 

 banded 5 with the great Inconveniences of altering the Government of the Weft- 

 India Company ; with the number of Soldiers wherewith every Place belonging 

 to the Company was at that prefent furnifli'd, which amounted in all to near five 

 thoufand Men } and with the impoffibility of keeping thofc Places, unlefs a fpeedy 

 Supply of Men and Provifions were fent. 



Grave Maurice receiv'd a Letter from Mafcarenbas, wherein he made great com- 

 plaint of the Netherlanders A&ions on Loando, St. Thomas, and Maragnan, during the 

 time of the Treaty, and us'd many Arguments for the delivering back of the Pla- 

 ces then taken - but Maurice took little notice of the faid Letter, being bufie about 

 feeling all Affairs in this quiet Juncture of time : He freed all new Planters from 

 the paying of Tenths for (even years, fold feveral Fields to be Cultivated, repair'd 

 all decay'd Forts, kept the Catbolicks in ftri&awe, ordain'd good Orders for Schools 

 Alms.houfes, and payment of Money, and gave particularly Liberty to the Portil 

 guefe both in Spiritual and Temporal Affairs. 



In the mean time fad news was brought, fcfi^ That the Maragnans, 'affifted by 

 the Portugueses and Brafilians, had taken the Fort of Caharia near the River Tapicuru, 

 deftroy'd all thofc that were in Garrifon, and Storm'd the City Lodowick : Where- 

 upon Hinder/on was difpatch'd thither immediately with three hundred l^etberlan- 

 ders, and two hundred Brafilians from Siara 5 which the Enemy hearing, though 

 there were feven hundred Portuguefes, and three thoufand Brafilians, left the Ifland 

 Maragnan, and went over to the Main Continent. 



The occafion of this Plot was imputed to the fault of the fottifh Governor of 

 St. Lodowick, and his Secretary William Negenton, who by their Folly and Mifgovern- 

 ment provokM the Natives to Rebellion, 



In the interim Grave Maurice had a Dcfign upon the City Buenos Aires in the Sou- 

 thern parts of Brafile,x\szx the River U Plata, where a Way leads by Land to Peru . 

 and whither the Silver and Negro's were often brought, efpecially when any Ships 

 were fufpe&ed to block up the Channel of Panama. 



Whileft Maurice was preparing for this Expedition, news was brought that two 

 Ships had Landed their Men on the Ifland St. Thom*s y under the Command of Lau- 

 rence Pire^ who had driven the Njtberland Garrifon out of PaVaofa, and Befiegd 

 the Fort,out of which many for want of Water ran to the Enemy . and it was fear'd 

 that the fame Misfortune would fuddenly befall the City Loando and Seregippe del 

 % 5 which prevented Henrick Borer's Expedition to Chili, and Licbtbart's to Buenos 

 Aires, &nd fo alarm'd Grave Maurice, that he thought it expedient to give fpeedy no- 

 tice thereof, to warn the Njtberlanders on Angola, that they fhould keep ftria 

 Watches, and beware of the treacherous Portuguefe, who affirm'd, That it was 

 lawful for them during the ten years Peace, to retake thofe Places which had been 

 taken from them during the Treaty of Peace in the Hague. 



Thcfe Proceedings fore'd Grave Maurice to Difarm moft of them . and becaufe the 

 Negro's did much mifchief from the Palmares, efpecially to the Husbandmen in the 

 AUgoas, Maurice gave order to deftroy their Habitations. The Palmares were two 

 Villages, built along the River Gungobuby under clofe Woods, fix Leagues North- 

 wardly from Parayba : The Inhabitants of them, being then about fix thoufand in 

 number, were .moft of them fled Negro's, who gathering together in a Head, de- 

 ftroy 'd all the Countrey thereabouts : They dwelt in Huts of Boughs and Straw 



interwoven, 



Grave Man- 

 tle* his De- 



fign uponflMir- 

 nos Aires di- 

 verted byJW- 

 rez hjs taking 

 oiPavaofa. 



Defcription 

 of the Pal- 

 mares. 



