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their Prefence to take up Arms, according to a private Contrail, having to that 

 purpofe Landed twelve hundred Men at Tamandera, befides the Army led by Cama- 

 rowand Di^from St. Salvador to Ternambuco. 



Colonel Horn about this time being fent for back to%eciffa y and flaying with 

 five hundred Men for Captain (Blaek's coming, who was fent to fetch all the <Portu* 

 guefe Women within three Leagues about %ecijja y was fet upon in the Night by 

 VUal with two thoufand Tortttguefes ; the Srafilians, who were above half his Forces, 

 flying into the Woods, leaving onely two hundred lather landers to fight with Vidal, 

 by whom being fo much over-power'd, they were fore'd to fubmit to his mercy, 

 and fufTer themfelvestobc all carry'd Prifoners to St. Salvador. 



By this time at <%eciffa all things were in a confufion, the Pits diggd about 

 Maurice- jiadt afforded nothing but brackifli Water, which becafion'd Sicknefs. 



Vidal encourag'd by his Vi&ory, march'd to St. Jugufline, where without doubt 



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very fubtilly, fending earneftly thither for Souldiers, Bullets, Powder and Shot, 

 in lieu whereof he fent thither two Barques full of old Men, Women and Chil- 

 dren, that fohe might deprive ftjeiffa of ftoutMen,and fupply their room with un- 

 able People. For this treacherous and villanous Aft the ?ortuguefe were to give him 

 1800 /. and make him a Colonel : Moreover, all the Soldiers in Garrifon, con- 

 fiding of three hundred Men, receiv'd 3 /. a Man, and were fent to joyn with a. 

 Regiment of fix hundred and fifty Men, over which Hoogenfiraet was made chief 



Commander. 



The day before this eminent Caftle was to be deliver'd up to the Enemy, Ad- 

 vXr/otr miral Licbthart obtain'd a brave Viftory at Sea . for the Tortuguefe Fleet (confiding 

 £/e££ of feventeen Sail, the reft being gone with Bonavides to Portugal) anchoring before 

 Tamandera, were valiantly fet upon by Lichtbart, who Engaged with them on the 

 ninth of September 1645. with the Utrecht, being the Admiral Ship, the Zealand, Ter 

 Veer, Over-Yfel, the Pinks Salt-Land and Leyden, a Dogger and three Barques. In the 

 Hole of the Haven Tamandera three Tortuguefe Carvels kept Watch, and near a Bat- 

 tery full of Guns lay three Barques, and the other Ships a little farther nigh the 

 Shore. The Enemy at firft fliot very fiercely from the Battery, whileft the Ships 

 drove to the Shore, and the Men leaping overboard fwam afliore, onely the 

 Admiral Jeronymo Serao de TayVa made fome rcfiftance, but at laft furrendrcd up his 

 Ship, the T^etherlanders in their Barques killing above feven hundred fortuguefes in 

 the Water. Licbthart burnt the whole Fleet, except the Admiral and Vke-Admiral, 

 which he carry'd to %eciffa. 



But this Victory was not comparable to the Lofs which the EafiJndia Company 

 fuftain'd by the felling of the Promontory of St. Augujline, and tire taking of the 

 Forts Torto Caho and <$jo Francifco . to the laft whereof the Barques coming too late 

 to carry the Soldiers off, they were all made Prifoners by the <Portuguefe y as alfo the 

 Planters, in all to the number of five hundred. 



Vidal marching to Tamarica, Stotm'd Scbuppen>ftadt, but found fuch refiftance from 



George Garflman (who fupply'd the Prifoner Bom his Place) that he loft three hun» 



fo ISaThT dred Men : After which he endeavored by means of Femandes Bouilloux, topurchafe 



«o C r otHZ tnc Fort Margaretafov 1500 1. Sterl. of the Governor of Parayba, who immediately 



"/'*• without any farther Examination, caus'd 'Bouilloux that proffer'd the Money to be 



put to death.' 



A Dutch Sergeant in Olinda dealt very treacheroufly 5 for he fold the Fort to a 



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