Chap. III. of BRAZIL bf the 
Banjola, but that Nobleman told him, their Quarrels 
could only ferve to min them ; whereas, if they agreed, 
each of them might become as great as he could wifh. 
To which Propofal the Governor anfwered : Sir, I per- 
ceive' you. are a wifer Man than /, and no body Jhall obey 
your Orders more pundiually. 
Count Maurice attacked, and, without much Refiftance, 
made himfelf Mailer of the ftrong Fort of Albert, that 
of St. Bartholomew, and the famous Caftle of St. Philip. 
This Succefs encouraged him to ereft two Batteries 
againft the City of St. Salvador, and to attack at the fame 
Time Fort Rofes, which covered the City, on one Side •, 
and a Hornwork, which was its principal Strength, on 
the other : There lay between thefe a Piece of Ground 
covered with Shrubs and Bufhes : Count Banjola advifed 
the Governor to poll himfelf there with four hundred 
of his own Troops, while he made a Sally with his 
Forces. This Scheme had the Effeft he defired, for, 
after an obftinate Difpute, the Dutch, endeavouring to 
retire through .that Piece of Ground, were attacked in 
the Rear ; and, befides three hundred of their bell Men, 
loll four Officers of Dillinflion, and their principal Engi- 
neer. Upon which Count Maurice abandoned the Cattles 
he had taken, and raifed the Siege with fome Precipitation. 
This proved in many Refpeds fortunate for the Portu- 
gueze, who otherwife were in the utmoll Danger of being 
totally undone. In the firll Place, it ttiewed that nei- 
ther Count Maurice nor his Dutch Troops were invinci- 
ble ; but that if other Men did their Duty they might be 
overcome ; in the next, it totally reconciled the Portugueze 
Generals ; who perceiving, that the Count de Banjola 
was far enough from depreciating other Mens Merit ; 
and that, on the contrary, he afcribed much of that to 
their Courage, which in reality was due to his own Con- 
duct, they changed their Meafures immediately, and, 
from thwarting his Councils, received and executed his 
Orders with the highell Refpedl. Lallly, it hindered 
the favage Brazilians from taking Arms in favour of the 
Dutch, which was what the Portugueze, of all Things, 
feared the moll ; becaufe they knew that 4 little Difcipline 
made them excellent Soldiers, at leall for that Climate. 
But as Misfortunes feldom come alone ; fo on the 
very Heels of this Mifchance on Shore followed another 
at &a, no lefs to the Lofs, and much more to the Dif- 
credit, of the Dutch Arms. We have, in another Part of 
this Work, fpoke of the taking the Spanijh Plate Fleet, 
by Peter Hein, which was the greatett Adlion performed 
under the Aufpice of the Dutch JVefi India Company ; 
and, next to that, was their taking St. Salvador, which 
made them fo eager to fee both thefe great Aftions re- 
peated. We have already fhewn what became of the 
Attempt to gratify them in one ; and, though, we 
digrefs a little from our Subjedt, yet the Reader will 
probably be glad to learn what was the Fate of the latter. 
Thus then the Cafe Hood. The States General and the 
Weji India Company equally approved the bold Spirit 
and fage Condudl of Cornelius Jol •, who, by mere Dint 
of Merit, had raifed himfelf from the lowell Station in 
the Fleet, to be thought worthy of the Command of it ; 
and he it was that, about this Time, they pitched upon 
to repeat the glorious Adlion of Peter Hein, and to bring 
the Spanijh Treafures, once more, into the Low Coun- 
tries ; a Commiffion which he readily accepted, and to 
which, it was thought, they had no Seaman, in their 
Service, more equal. 
Fie failed from the Hex el the 14th of April 1638, 
and, touching at Brazil, comiminicated to Count Maurice 
the Inftrudlions he had received, who thereupon furnittied 
him immediately with fix hundred good Men, and Pro- 
vifions for feven Months, after which he failed in Search 
of the Spanijh Fleet. He fell in with them a little to the 
Weft of the Hand of Cuba, but efcorted by a greater 
Number of Ships of War, and thofe too larger and bet- 
ter equipped than he expedled ^ his Squadron confifted 
but of thirteen Sail •, with which, hov/ever, he ventured 
to attack them, and there is little Doubt to be made, 
that he vrould have given a good Account of them too, 
if thofe who ferved under him had followed his Example ; 
but when the Difpute grew warm .all his Squadron left 
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him and their Vice-Admiral, except two Ships, who 
fought very gallantly, till their Captains were killed. 
Cornelius Jol difengaged his four Ships from thofe of 
the Enemy, and, returning to his own Squadron, fent for 
the Officers on board, difmilTed fuch as had behaved 
worft, reprimanded the reft, and exhorted them all to do 
their Duty better the next Time, as he was determined to 
renew the Attack : He did fo accordingly, but it was with 
the like Succefs ; his Captains abandoned him again, and 
he again difengaged himfelf, but with more Difficulty : 
Fie fent for his Officers the fecond Time ; and being now 
perfuaded, that it was not fo much through Fear of the 
Enemy, as Averfion to him„ that they mifbehaved ; he 
treated them with greater Gentlenefs, difplaced none of 
them, but engaged them all to fign a Refolution to fight 
the Enemy, when they fhould be next commanded fo to 
do, and to obey their commanding Officer exadlly, and 
with Alacrity, which they did chearfully. 
Highly pieafed with this Pledge of their Fidelity, he 
fell upon the Spaniards a third time, when they behaved 
a little better at firft, but foon after fhewed that they were 
more afraid of Danger than of Perjury j for they aban- 
doned him again, which fo provoked that gallant Officer, 
that he cafliiered five of his Captains, gave their Ships 
to inferior Officers, and went in fearch of the Spa- 
niards for the fourth time. He then found his Opportu- 
nity was loft, thev Spaniards were feparated and retired 
into feveral Ports, fo that he was able to do nothing. 
He then divided his Fleet into three fmall Squadrons, 
ftationed one before the Havanna, detached another to 
Brazil, and returned home with the third, where he was 
received with Honour and Refpedl j his Matters declaring 
that they were intirely fatisfied with his Condufl, and that 
they did not impute the Mifcarriage to him, but to thofe 
who out of Fear and Pride had difobeyed his Orders. 
13. After CowvlX. Maurice returned from his fruitlels 
Expedition againft St. Salvador, he applied himfelf with 
the utmoft Diligence to the Eftablifhment of good Order 
and perfecl Difcipline in all Parts of his Government ; 
reviewing his Troops in Perfon *, appointing experienced 
Officers to command them ; fortifying all the frontier 
Places ; and giving all Sor,t of Encouragement to fuch of 
the Natives as (hewed an Inclination to affift him, and to 
live peaceably under the Protedion of the Dutch ; by 
which wife and prudent Meafures he prevented the Enemy 
from making thofe Advantages that might have been ex- 
peded from their late Succefs. The Spanijh Govern- 
ment, having received an exad Account of the State of 
Affairs in Brazil, came to a fettled Refolution of repair- 
ing their pad Miftakes, by fending thither fuch a Fleet, 
and fuch an Army, as (hould effedually put an End to 
the War, by obliging the Dutch to abandon all their 
Conquefts in that Country. 
This Fleet of theirs confifted of twenty-fix Galleons 
doubled manned, and provided with every other Neceffa- 
ry in the fame Proportion; twenty large Men of War, 
and five thoufand regular Troops, under the Command 
of a Portugueze Nobleman of a great Family, and whofe 
Virtues were ftill more iiluftrious than his Birth, the 
famous Don Fernandez Mafcarenhas, Count de la Forres^ 
who failed in the Autumn of 1639, and received confi- 
derable Reinforcements in his Paffage ; but, being de- 
tained by Calms upon the Coaft of Afric, the exceffive 
Heats produced a Plague on board his crowded Ships, 
which (wept away above three thoufand Men before he 
reached the Bay of All Saints ; and the reft of his Troops 
were in fo bad a Condition, that he was under a Neceffity 
of putting them into Quarters of Refrelhment, which 
certainly faved the Dutch, who were at that time but in 
a low Condition, expeding with great Impatience thofe 
Succours from Holland that foon after arrived, and by 
means of this Accident arrived in time. The Vigilance, 
however, of Mafcarenhas was fuch, that in the Month 
of January, 1640, he put to Sea with a Fleet of ninety- 
three Sail great and fmall, and twelve thoufand Men on 
board. 
Count Maurice, on the other hand, was far from be- 
ing negligent ; and, having drawn together forty-one 
Men of War, well manned and provided in every Re- 
