5 8o <U M E *KI C A Chap. VII. 



fpirators, went with a Company from Poiouca through the Countrey, kill'd feven 

 Dutch Seamen, with three Jews, and erected Gibbets, on which he threatned to hang 

 all thofe who did not take up Arms for the King of Portugal. Colonel Hous in. 

 form'd hereof march'd with five hundred Men to Poiuca to meet the Portuguefe, 

 who were fcattcr'd up and down the neighboring Woods. He alio publifti'd an 

 Edidr. in which every one was Licens'd to return to their Habitations, with pro- 

 mife of pardon for their Rebellion, if they would take the Oath of Allegiance anew, 

 onely Viera, CaValcantelca, and J)a%ouge, were excluded, and nine thoufand Guilders 

 promis'd to thofe that brought them dead or alive, which made two hundred Inha- 

 bitants in P^cijfa march into the Countrey under the Command of Captain S/ar, 

 to find the fore-mention'd Traitors 5 and at laft joyning with Hous, they purfu'd 

 the fled Portuguefe 9 

 mopnftratt In the mean time the Council fent the Captains Vander Voort and Hoogenfiraet, to 

 ^°JSS$ Antonio Silva, Governor of St. Salvador, to acquaint him with the treacherous Infur- 

 v«rfy tempi" re&ion of the Portuguefe, and of Camaron and Die^ coming from St. Salvador to their 

 deiimipX afliftance, urging, that thefe treacherous Proceedings and breach of Oath, could 

 V g lj?£.' AM ~ not but redound to the dilhonor of the Crown of Portugal. Whereto Silva an* 

 fwer'd, "That Camaron and Die% were not under any Obligation of Oath, but 

 (C that he would check the Infurrection in Pernambuco, and take care that the Au- 

 u thors thereof (hould make Satisfaction to the Wejl-lndia Company. Notwith- 

 standing which fair Pretences, he fo wrought with Hoogenflraet , that after a private 

 Conference between them it was agreed, that for a certain fum of Money he (hould 

 furrender him the Promontory of St. Augufiine } of which he was Governor ; but at 

 his Return to Pjcijfa being made chief Commander of the Caftle there, and being 

 jealous what might follow his private Treating with Silva y he declar'd to the 

 Council, that Silva had defir'd him to furrender the Fort St. Auguftine, which he had 

 granted, for no other end, but to catch thefalfc Portuguese in their own Nets, and 

 to trapan all fuch as fhould be fent to take pofleflion of it ; and that if the Council 

 had any fufpicion of him, they might make ufe of his Service in fome other place. 

 About this time a hundred and fifty Tapuyans, led by a German Soldier call Jacob 

 P^abbi, Sallying out of their Woods, fell upon the great Village Qonyabou, under the 

 Jurifdi&ion of G(to Grande, broke into the Church, murder'd all the Portuguefe i and 

 eating their raw Flefli, demolifli'd the Place. 



Hous alfo unfortunately Storm'd the Mountain Santantan, where the Enemy lay 

 Intrench'd, being fore'd to Retreat with the lofs of above a hundred Men, amongft 

 whom was Captain Lo. 

 'Guv* M*u~ The Privy Council caus'd a part of Maurice- Jiadt to be pull'd down, as al(b the 

 Paiaademo- (lately Palace Freyburgb, for which the Jeios proffer'd GraVeWaurice 6000 I. together 

 with the (lately Garden, which were thought to exceed the famous Gardens in 

 Tlxjfalia j but on the other fide they kept Men at work Night and Day in repairing 

 the decay'd Caftle at P^ciffa* 

 * «T^th^ About the fame time the Admiral Salvador Qorreo de Bonayides, brought thirty 

 before^ ^ our § reat Sai * °^ S ' li P s to an Ancnor before %eciffa, the Gallion which he Com- 

 £s b S- man d ec * carrying fixty Brafs Guns. The Admiral Licbtbart ran to meet him with 

 five Veflels, and fent him word, that if he fell down to Leeward, fince he was got 

 to the Windward, he (hould foon find, that five Ships durfl; Engage with a Fleet fix 

 times as ftrong. Whereupon BonaVides fent two Meflengers to Licbtbart to tell him, 

 that he came as a Friend to damp the Portuguefe Infurre&ion in Pernambuco ; to 

 which purpofc he had already Landed fome Companies at Tamandera. Licbtbart fend, 

 ing the two Meflengers to the Council &t\ecitfa, they fent two of their own Mem- 

 bers 



(hip. 



