588 AMERICA Chap.lVI. 



cordingly : for when the Executioner began to fcorch the half-ftrangled Criminal 

 with Straw, there fprungup a ftrange Spirit of Contention amongft the Specta- 

 tors, who began tojuftle and ftrike one another 5 and foon after a Whirlwind rofe 

 in themidftof the Market-place, which in a moment caus'd them all to ftaeser 

 like drunken People, their Hats and Caps were blown up into the Air, the whole 

 multitude tumbling confufedly on the Ground, the Arm'd Soldiers flying co the 

 next Houfes, and the Executioner falling down in a Trance from the Scaffold : A 

 full quarter of an hour this Confufion hadlafted, when the People came to them- 

 felves again, and the Hangman returnd to his Bufinefs, cutting offthe Tortuguefe's 

 Nofe, Ears, Privy-Mcmbers, and tearing out his Heart, which he threw to two 

 Dogs, who devour'd the- fame ; then dividing the Body into Quarters, which were 

 fet up at the four Cornets of the City for an Example. 



ThefamePuniflimentreceiv'daMM^rto, who endeavor'd to fire two oftheHo/- 

 landers beft Ships in the Haven. 



Notwithftanding thefe Punifhmcnts, the Soldiers ran away daily ; the blame 

 whereof might juftly be laid on the Magiftrates, who took no notice of the Soldiers 

 juft Complaints of their Officers, cheating them of a third part of their Pro- 

 vifion, and inflicting fevere Punifliments upon them as Mutineers, when they had 

 real caufe of Complaint. 



Schuppe was at the fame time flirewdly put to it for want of Men, who either 

 dy'd of the then reigning Difeafe, or ran away to the Enemy ; fo that he was for- 

 ced to leave the Ifland Taperica, and inclofe himfelf within his new rais'd Sconce. 

 Admiral The Admiral Sankert had better fuccefs . for Cruifing up and down before the 



A** vi- Inlet Todos los Sanclos , after the taking and finking of feveral Ships as they came in 

 his way, he at lad fet upon the fortuguefe Fleet, confifting of feven great Ships, of 

 which one got to St. Salvador, another was funk, and the other five were taken, be- 

 ing valu'd at twenty Tuns of Gold, or 200000 1. Sterl In this Engagement were 

 kill'd above four hundred fortuguefes, befides two hundred and fifty who were ta- 

 ken Prifoners, and fent Shackled to %tciffa. Amongft them was the new Vice- 

 Roy of Bra file 9 the Admiral, Vice*Admiral, three Monks, and feveral other Pcr- 

 fons of note. 



This Victory began to give fome Breath to Qjciffa, when at the fame time Mar- 

 flial Hous arriv'd there with feven Ships, Manned with five hundred Soldiers. This 

 Hous on the feventeenthof Auguft, Anno 1645. had been taken Prifoner at the £»- 

 genho, having fought fo long till all his Powder was fpent, fo that he was fore'd to 

 furrender himfelf upon promife of Quarter to Fidal,who after he had taken an Oath 

 upon the (Bible, to fpare the Lives of all the Hollanders and Brafelians, fell upon the 

 Brafilians and flew them, being a hundred in all, in Cold-blood, who yet fold their 

 Lives at no eafie rate. Being carry'd Prifoner, together with Captain BriJtow f Liftry, 

 Wtldfchut, <Blar, and two hundred more, by Viera to Cafa de <Prugar, he was thence 

 fent to Portugal, where being releas'd, be brought News to the States of the mean 

 Condition of the Weft-India Company, and that all things muft needs be loft, if they 

 did not fpeedily take the Bufinefs into Confideration : Whereupon he was fur- 

 nifh'd with a Supply of Ships and Men, with which he fet Sail for Braftle . where 

 being arriv'd, raoft part of the Soldiers he brought with him were Tranfported to 

 Taperica, to affift Schuppe 5 who as foon as they came to him, march'd into the Coun- 

 try . where being let upon by a thoufand fortuguefes, he loft fixty Men. 



Soon after Hoogenftraet receiving Orders from the Governor of St. Salvador, who 

 was inform'd by fome Prifoners, that Schuppe had not above twelve hundred fight- 

 ing Men, to fell upon him with three thoufand, made a furious AiTault upon the 



Sconce 



Aory over 

 the Portu- 

 gutfs Fleet. 



Marflial 

 Hous arrives 

 at Bjcciff* 

 with afrefli 

 Supply* 



