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Vortuguefe Enfign for 100 /. and alfo moft bafely betray 'd all his Soldiers Lives to 

 the mercilcfs Enemy, 



By thefe means %eciffa was round about in jeopardy, as alfo within . for the great tie w*c 

 Thirft of the Inhabitants under a fcorching Climate, augmented by the Hollanders «?&£&. 

 fait Meat, could not be quench'cT with brackifh Water, for frefii was not to be had 

 Famine alfo increas'd daily, infomuch that the Poor threatned to fall upon the 

 Rich, which made the Magiftrates go Arm'd from Houfe to Houfe, to enquire ' 

 what Store every on* had, which being writ down was carry'd away and put into 

 the Store-houfes, where each received alike (hare, without refpeel: of Perfons. Fewcl 

 alfo grew very fcarce, which made many cat their Meat raw, or half drcfsU In 

 the interim every one that was able, was fore'd to work at the Forts of fyciffa, 

 which were beaten down by the Rains $ and the Soldiers continually alarm'd by 

 the Enemy, were fore'd to be Night and Day up in Arms. The People dy'd more 

 and more daily, when two Fly-^oats arriv'd there with Provifions, and News, 

 that a Fleet was coming to their affiftance. 



The Captains <RJ>ynbag and Miontagne went in the Night, each with a Company, 

 to fall upon the Enemy, who being two thoufand five hundred ftrong, drove them 

 back, and purfu'd them within (hot of the Jfogados, where forty Tortuguefes were 

 kili'd. 



About the fame time a Terra Neuf Sailor, laden with the dry'd Fifh BocraMo, 

 came to fyciffa. 



• In Parayba three hundred Ifetberlanders Sallying out of the Forts, fell fo valiantly 

 upon nine hundred <Portuguefes, that they fore'd them to flye, not without a confi- 

 derable lofs. After which a Party of Braftlians furpris'd eighty Portugueses, as they 

 were at Mafi in Andreas Die% de la Figueredas Sugar-Mills, where they fpar'd none 

 but Rgueredas Daughter, whofe Beauty fo charm'd them, that they comforted her 

 mourning for her Father's Death, and deliver'd her undefii'd to the Governor 

 of Tarayba. 



Vidal raging for madnefs becaufe now and tKcn fome of his Prifoners efcap'd, ** batb »- 

 caus'd feveral of them to be cruelly murder'd, tying fome of them Back to Backhand ^m* * 

 then cutting them in pieces ; others he threw with Stones ty'd about their Necks 

 into the Rivers , others he ty'd by their Privities, and hung them upon Trees 5 and 

 alfo knock'd out the Brains of others. 



In %ec\ffa the Soldiers, confiding of divers Nations, began likewife to mutiny, ne Soldi » r$ 

 cr Y in g> Theyfhould be allflarVd ; and faying, They had better be flam in the Field fighting ^J™' 

 againfi the Enemy, than die of Hunger in the City. They alfo complain'd, Ibe Commif- vifloa 

 fioners themfehes betray Brafile - and threatned by force to fetch the Provifions out 

 of the publick Stores, faying, Tiny had long enough endurd Thirft and Hunger. 



Thefe Tranfa&ions in Brafile were very ill refented in Holland, the common 

 People in the Hague being ready to pull down the Portuguefe Ambaffador's Houfe, 

 in revenge of the Cruelties exercis'd upon the Netkerlanders in Brafile, had they not 

 been hindred by the Prudence of Prince Henrick. The Ambaffador pretending to 

 be ignorant of the fore-mention'd Paflages, proffer'd to make what Satisfaction the 

 Wesl-India Company fliould require. But the States not fatisfi'd with Excu fes, 

 when the Actions plainly manifefted what their Intentions werc,Complain'd to the 

 French King of the unthankful and malicious Dealings of the Tortuguefe Crown • 

 and meeting but with fmall Redrcfs, they prepar'd to right thcmfelves by force of %£% 

 Arms, and to that end rais'd feveral Regiments of Land-Soldicrs, befides Seamen,^. 

 to fend to Brafile. The Fleet defign'd thicher, confiding of twenty two Sail, after 

 ichad been frozen up before Flufinng three Moneths,fet Sail at laft in the beginning 



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