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The new donatory took with him his brother Jorge d' Albuquerque Coelho, 

 and was accompanied by many friends and hired attendants to his new settle- 

 ment, and had the promise of others to follow him for the purpose of augment- 

 ing the colony. He subjugated the whole nation of the Cahetes and divided 

 them into hordes ; and after a residence of many years returned to Europe, in 

 order to accompany D. Sebastiano in his voyage to Africa, leaving his brother 

 administrator of the captaincy, which progressively improved under his ma- 

 nagement. 



In failure of male issue he was succeeded by his brother Jorge d' Albuquerque 

 Coelho, father of Duarthe d' Albuquerque Coelho, who in the second year after 

 the Dutch had possession of the captaincy arrived there with the Count Ban- 

 holo, where he remained till the end of 1638, when he returned to Portugal. 

 During his residence he kept a diary of the first eight years of the war,* 



Duarthe d' Albuquerque Coelho had an only daughter, married to the Count 

 de Vimiozi D. Miguel de Portugal, but neither he nor his heirs received any 

 revenue from the captaincy, the dominion of which was disputed ; for King 

 John IV. who had expended large sums in its restoration, finding that the 

 donatory had not forces sufficient to prevent the invasion of the enemy, should 

 they make a second attempt, annexed the captaincy to the crown in the first 

 year of its restoration. This the donatory opposed, and his heirs sustained an 

 obstinate suit at law for many years, obtaining various sentences in their favour, 

 which were always abrogated, till finally they desisted from the contest, sur- 

 rendering whatever right they had to the province ; and, in 1717, by the inter- 

 vention and consent of John V. a convention was made between the Count de 

 Vimiozi D. Francisco de Portugal and the attorney-general, in which it was 

 agreed that the Count should receive in exchange for the captaincy the mar- 

 quisate of Vallenca for himself and his son, the countship to pass to his son and 

 grandson, and eighty thousand crusades, to be paid from the revenues of the 

 province in ten years at equal payments. 



The new colonists, who were sent to it immediately after the restoration of 

 the province, gave it a rapid improvement. The Indians living towards the in- 



* The Dutch armament, commanded by Admiral Hervey Zonk, consisting of sixty-four vessels, of 

 various sizes, and eight thousand men, landed, on the 15th of February, 1630, on the beach of Pau 

 Amarello, three leagues north of Ollinda, by the direction of Judea Antonio Dias, who had resided 

 many years in the country and acquired a large fortune, with which he established himself at Amsler- 

 dam. In 1664 the Dutch evacuated the captaincy. 



