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the evacuation of the place by the French, to which their commander, from the 

 weak condition of the colony, was under the necessity of acceding. This 

 event, occurring on the 1st of November, induced Moura to give the name of 

 Todos OS Santos to the island, which it did not however long retain. 



Jeronimo d' Albuquerque was left here by Alexandre de Moura with the post 

 of captao-mor, and was instructed to found a povoa9ao and continue the con- 

 quest of this new province on account of the government. He preferred the 

 situation which had been selected by the French, where he commenced the 

 capital, in the increase and defence of which he was occupied till the year 1618, 

 when he died, and was succeeded by his son, Antonio d' Albuquerque, as 

 temporary governor for more than a year, when Domingos da Costa Machado 

 was appointed to this situation. In the beginning of his government Jorge de 

 Lemos arrived there with two hundred families from the Azores, in three vessels, 

 ■at his own cost. 



In 1621 there was a very great mortality amongst the domestic Indians, caused 

 by the small pox. Part of this loss was remedied in the same year by the 

 transmission of forty families, also from the islands of the Azores, by the 

 provedor-mor, Antonio Ferraira Bitancourt, in pursuance of an arrangement 

 made with the crown. 



Antonio Moniz Barreiros succeeded to this govemment in 1622, to whom the 

 senate, in the name of the people, presented a requisition that he would not 

 consent to the establishment of the Jesuits there, as it was thought the introduc- 

 tion of their principles among the Indians would not be favourable to the 

 colonists. He established two sugar works, in accomplishment of the obliga- 

 tion his father, of the same name, was under from being appointed provedor- 

 mor of the treasury at Bahia. 



Some time before Ban^eiros began his government the court of Madrid (in 

 1621) resolved to form the conquests of Maranham into a new state of the same 

 name, and for its governor was nominated D. Diogo de Carcoma, whose refusal 

 occasioned the appointment of D. Francisco de Moura. This individual not 

 going, Francisco Coelho de Carvalho was elected, who sailed from the Tagus 

 in March, 1624, and disembarked at Pernambuco, where the irruptions of the 

 Dutch detained him nearly two years, so that he did not arrive at the capital of 

 Maranham till 1626, having previously taken possession of the fort of Siara, 

 which then formed a part of this province. In the following year he visited the 

 province of Grand Para and entered the bay of Gurupy, where he establishecl 



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