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was to iffiie a proclamation, giving notice to the people of the town, that 
whoever ihould fiibmlt to his authority within fix days, fhould have their 
lives, families J and properties fecured to them, but that all others muft 
expeiS ro feel the punilhment of their obftinacy. This had the effeft 
he looked for, the greater part of the inhabitants coming over to his 
camp. He then commenced his military operations, and in the third 
attack gotpoiTcffion of the town of Pafay, after much daughter ; thofe 
who efcaped his fury taking ihelter in the neighbouring mountains and 
Aick woods. He fent a mcfTage to the commander of the fortrefs^ re- 
quiring him to abandon it, and to deliver into his hands the kings of 
Pedecr and Daya, to whom they had given protection. Henriquez re- 
turned a fpirited anfwer to this fummons, but being fickly at the time; 
at beft of an unfteady difpofition ; and too much attached to his trading 
concerns, for afoldier, he rcfolved to relinquiih the command to his re- 
lation Aires Coelho, and take paflfage for the Weft of Indi:^. 
He had not advanced ftirther on his voyage than the point of Pedeer, 
wlien he fell in with two Portugoefe fliips bound to the Moluccas, the 
captains of which he made acquainted wich the Situation of the garri^ 
fon, and they immediately proceeded to its relief. Arriving in the night 
they heard great firing of cannon, and learned next morning that the 
Achenefc had made a furious aflault, in hopes of carrying the fortrefs, - 
before the fhips, which were defcried at a diftance, could throw fuccours 
into it. They had maftcred fome of the outworks, and the garrifort 
reprefented that it was impofliblc for them to fupport fucli another 
flio:k, without aid from the veflcls. The captains, with as much force 
as could be fpared, entered rhc fort, and a fally was fliortly afterwards 
refolved on and executed, in which the befiegers fuftained much damage. 
Every efforc was like wife employed, to repair the breaches, and Hop up 
the mines that had been made by the enemy in order to off eft a paflage 
into the place. Abraham now attempted to draw theni into a fnarc by 
removing his camp to a diftancc, and making a'fhow of abandoning his 
enterprizc ; but tliis flratagcm proved ineffedtyal. Refledling then 
with indignation, that his, own force coniiftcd of fifteen thoufaml men, 
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