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tuguese again demanded satisfaction for this infringement, which was at last 

 amicably adjusted. 



Christovam Jacques, in the year 1516, entered the bay of All Saints with a 

 squadron of caravels, and in the course of exploring its extensive limits, its 

 rivers, and creeks, he fell in with two French ships, which had previously 

 entered the bay, and were loading with Brazil wood, of which they had a 

 considerable quantity on board, as well as parrots and monkeys. He engaged 

 the vessels, and after a spirited defence they were destroyed. Subsequently, 

 it would appear from the testimony of a letter of donation to Pedro Lopez de 

 Souza, (who chose Itamaraca for part of his grant,) and by one which John III. 

 ordered to be written to Martim Affonso de Souza, that Christovam Jacques 

 was employed in establishing a factory upon the channel which separates the 

 island of Itamaraca from the continent, destined to facilitate the exportation 

 of Brazil wood, and to impede the attempts of other nations who might visit 

 that quarter in quest of it. 



Diogo Garciam, a Portuguese pilot in the service of the Castilian court, 

 arrived near the mouth of the river Paraguay, in the year 1527, and found 

 there the ships with which Sebastian Caboto had sailed from Cadiz, with the 

 intention of proceeding to the Moluccas by the straits of All Saints, now 

 Magellan's. He learned that the captain had gone up the Paraguay, then 

 River Sobs, and proceeded with two launches much above the confluence of 

 the Parana in pursuit of him. He found him engaged in the construction of 

 the fort of St. Anna, where they mutually agreed to give to the river Solis the 

 name of the river Prata, in consequence of seeing small pieces of that metal 

 in the possession of the Indians. Herrera states, that Diogo Garciam, on his 

 way to the river Solis, entered the bay of St. Vincente, (then the River Inno- 

 centes,) where a Portuguese, who had been shipwrecked, provided him with 

 refreshments ; also, that Garciam anchored off the island of Patos, at the 

 present day St. Catherine's, where the Indians furnished him with some pro- 

 visions. He carried with him sixty men, in two brigantines, to the fort of 

 St. Anna ; and before his departure he despatched one of the largest vessels 

 of his squadron to St. Vincente, to take in a cargo, which he had agreed with 

 the Portuguese mentioned, to be sent to Portugal. It is probable that this indivi- 

 dual was either Joam Ramalho or Antonio Rodriguez, whom Martim Affonso de 

 Souza found there five years afterwards. It would appear that some Portuguese 

 had been established at St. Vincente some years ; and the evidence of Herrera, 



