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CHAP. XXXII. 1702. 31. 25. 13. 16. 17. 21. tance of the mines from the capital, definitive powers were allowed him in treasury causes, to the amount of a hundred milreis; for other and graver cases an appeal lay to the Supreme Court at Bahia. Secret information would be received of any frauds committed upon the Government, that proceedings might be instituted against the offenders, conformably to law. Cattle were driven from Bahia to the mines, and gold dust given in payment for them. The
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CHAP. XL. 1759. Conduct of the Archbishop of Bahia. tional drop of water to moisten their lips; nor would he permit them the consolation of receiving the last sacrament in death. Five of them died under this inhuman usage. There are always wicked instruments enough to carry into full effect the worst intentions of unjust and tyrannical power. Examples in all history are but too common; and in the whole detail of the expulsion of the Jesuits, from first to last, they occur with infamous
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CHAP. XIV. 1624. Zeal of the Portugueze. Jornada da Bahia c. 9. G. Giuseppe p. 64. Jornada da Bahia c. 4. Franscisco de Moura went in one to take the command in Bahia, another was destined to Pernambuco, the third to Rio de Janeiro, the fourth to Angola. The Portugueze were aware of the value of their colonies; a hundred thousand crowns were given by the city of Lisbon towards the expences of government for the deliverance of St. Salvador; the Duke of Braganza made a voluntary contribution of
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CHAP. XXI. 1645. Nieuhoff, 92. Cast. Lus. 6 98 105. Val. Luc. p. 261. was of great importance; the fort was considered as the key of Pernambuco; there was now nothing to oppose the free passage of the Portugueze from Bahia, and the insurgents could be supplied with food from the extensive pastures along this great river. The fort was razed at the request of the inhabitants, and Aranha proceeded with his troops to join Fernandes and Vidal in the Varzea. The deserters formed into a regiment
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the fair establishment to be forty able Negroes of both sexes, as many oxen, and as many horses. Manoel Feliz da Lima states it at an hundred Negroes; he had Bahia or the Rio in his mind, and perhaps includes all ages, whereas Mr. Koster reckons neither the old nor the young. 32 One ship from Angola would bring out five or six hundred, and sometimes a thousand slaves! (Vieyra, Sermoens, t. 6, p. 391.) Vieyra says, (Sermoens, t. 8, 522,) that in Bahia alone 25,000 Negroes were catechized and
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Cathedral at Bahia, seeing that they were not preserved with that care, nor in that splendour, to which things of this kind are thought entitled by the Roman Catholics: he distinguished by his favour those Priests who were versed either in the Dutch, or English, or Danish languages, and encouraged them to convert sailors of those nations when they came to Bahia; and he drew up a summary of the religious instruction necessary for salvation according to the doctrines of his church, and distributed many
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these murderers been punished with death, or condemned to life-long imprisonment and penance, all the other lives would probably have been saved. The inhabitants of Seregipe are of all shades of colour; and it has been observed, that of all classes the Mamalucos are the longest lived. Lawless state of the people. Cazal. 2. 144. Captaincy of Bahia. City of Bahia. Cazal. 1. 119. This province is subordinate to Bahia, which, including Ilheos, extends one hundred and fifteen leagues from north to
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CHAP. XXVIII. 1686. Rocha Pitta, 7, 33 46. has been Patron16 of Bahia, and his yearly festival is celebrated in that city on the tenth of May, being the anniversary of the day on which his image was carried in procession and staid the plague, .. according to the belief in which a superstitious and deluded People have been confirmed by an idolatrous and deceitful Church. 16 Xavier was already Tutelary Saint of Navarre, Naples, the whole East Indies, and Palermo; .. considering how young a Saint
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CHAPTER XXXIII. Rio de Janeiro attacked by the French under Du Clerc, who are defeated, and the whole force slain or taken. A second expedition, under Du Guay-Trouin, captures the city; which is ransomed. Tumults at Bahia. Negociations at Utrecht. Insurrection in Minas Geraes. That Government is separated from S. Paulo, and made a distinct Captaincy. CHAP. XXXIII. 1710. Alarm of invasion at the Rio. August 16. Rio de Janeiro, which throughout the Dutch war had continued to flourish during all
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, and it flourished so well that there were in a short time eight or nine sugar works established. Bahia. Noticias. MSS. 1. 26. S. Vasc. C.C. 1. 34. The coast from the great Rio de S. Francisco to the Ponta da Padram de Bahia, was given to Francisco Pereira Coutinho, a fidalgo who had distinguished himself in India; and the bay itself with all its creeks was afterwards added to the grant. He fixed his settlement in the bay at the place now called Villa Velha, which was Caramuru's dwelling place; two
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serra near, where small stones were found which were bright red, and of singular lustre. People of Bahia. There were above an hundred persons in Bahia whose income was from three to five thousand cruzados, and whose property from twenty to sixty thousand. Their wives would wear nothing but silk. The people were generally characterized by extravagance in their apparel; even men of inferior rank walked the streets in breeches of satin damask: their wives wore kirtles11 and 11 Vasquinhas e giboens
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had finally put back to Bahia with only six. Barreto requested him to expel the French from Paraiba; two ships under Diogo Vaz da Veiga were also lying at Bahia, on their way home from Goa; with these in addition to his own fleet Flores sailed to Pernambuco; and troops were collected there who advanced by land while the maritime force proceeded. There were four French vessels in the river. Flores entered to attack them with his own ship, that of Diogo Vaz, and all the boats; the French abandoned
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proceed to attack it. An insolent answer was returned, that he had better remain where he was than draw after him to Bahia, the ill-fortune of Pernambuco. After such an answer there was no alternative; he stationed himself at Seregipe, and renewed that system of predatory warfare which he had formerly found so successful. The Dutch at Fort Mauritz were at this time endeavouring to carry off the cattle from this Captaincy, in the vain hope of distressing Bahia for provisions; and skirmishes were
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CHAP. XVII. 1638. of their neglect; and he requested ships which would serve the double purpose of meeting the enemy's fleet, and carrying home sugar. Preparations against Bahia. Barl us. 76. B. Freire. 828 9. On his return from Paraiba he found that stores and ammunition enough had arrived, but only two hundred soldiers. The season for military operations was passing on, and disappointed as he was by this scanty reinforcement, he resolved without losing longer time to attack St. Salvador. His
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Portugueze imports into Europe so much that Holland would easily undersell them. The negro slave-trade they thought could not be considerable, because they never heard it mentioned; but Bahia could be in no want of negroes, since the price of a good one was about three hundred gilders. There was no intercourse with Buenos Ayres, for though the Portugueze of Bahia would willingly have continued it after the Revolution, they who went there had been treated as enemies, and the communication was thus
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CHAP. XXII. 1646. Cast. Lus. 8, 16. Nieuhoff, p. 114. which the Pernambucans drew from those parts, and of collecting stores there for a more important expedition. His first success was easy; the Portugueze were leisurely demolishing Fort Mauritz, and being unprepared for defence, fled across the river, where the Camp-Master Francisco Rebello was stationed by the Governor General, to protect the Captaincy of Bahia. As the country here abounded with fresh provisions, Nieuhoff was sent from
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account, not less than eighteen thousand persons: and when they delivered up their charge they had two months provisions for the army, twenty-four contos in specie, and the amount of eighteen thousand cruzados more in effects, or in sure debts. It was known at this time that fresh forces were fitting out in Holland; report said that the States furnished ships, the Company men, and the Jews money. Certain advices came from Lisbon that the expedition was against Brazil; many believed that Bahia was
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, and blockade the Tagus. The fleet which had been fitted out with such exertions for Bahia, lay there at this time, imploring reinforcements, to enable it to meet the enemy. Except Bahia and the Rio, all the other places in Brazil were open to an attack; so was Maranham, so was India. Succours could not be sent out at a time when Castille, at peace with the States and with France, was ready to attack not the frontiers alone, but the Bar also, as knowing that he who was not master of Lisbon
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CHAP. XXVIII. 1676. (a descendant of Caramuru) were chosen, and were afterwards continued in their joint administration. Three bishopricks erected. Rocha Pitta, 6, 99. 1677. A nunnery established in Bahia. The religious concerns of Brazil were not neglected at Lisbon. The vigilance of a single Pastor, says Rocha Pitta, could not suffice for a flock of such innumerable sheep scattered over so wide a territory. Bahia, hitherto the only diocese, was elevated to the rank of a metropolitan see, and
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CHAP. XXXI. 1686. The way from Maranham to Bahia explored. of the dress was imputed to the virtue of the image: so a fort and settlement were established here under the name and patronage of S. Maria, and the river Meary was thought secure under the care of so powerful a protectress. Gomes Freyre was desirous that a way should be explored to Bahia through the interior. Joam Velho do Valle undertook to make the attempt: he made peace as he went with some tribes upon the Mony, the Itapicuru, and
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arising out of some blind suspicion, and acting upon a wicked heart; and to render it more shocking, the eldest son assisted in the murder of his mother and his sisters. This monster escaped from earthly vengeance: the circumstance however was so atrocious, that even in Brazil it was not suffered to pass with impunity. Bezerra was arrested, carried to Bahia, and beheaded there, and his head sent to his Engenho in the Varzea, to be exposed in the place where he had committed the crime. Rocha Pitta. 7
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forming a seminary at N. Senhora do Rosario da Cachoeira, fourteen leagues from Bahia, upon a river of that name. It soon grew into a large establishment, to which children were sent from all parts of Brazil. The trade, meantime, was rapidly increasing in extent and importance. In 1688, the fleet from Bahia was the largest which had ever sailed from that port; yet there was not sufficient tonnage for the produce. The consequence of this was a glut in the Lisbon market, and prices fell so much
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in his office, but not in his rank, by the Conde do Vimieiro, D. Sancho de Faro. Ill omens are said to have preceded the Count's arrival in Brazil. It was confidently reported in Bahia that he had died on the voyage, and the month and day of his decease were specified: how the rumour had arisen was not known, nor is it easy to guess why the Viceroy should have endeavoured to discover the author for the sake of punishing him. On the voyage he was pursued by a Pirate who hoisted the black flag
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great sea ports. The edict affirmed, that upon strict investigation, the chief agents in defrauding the Government of its fifths were found to be goldsmiths established at the Rio, Bahia, Olinda, and other places in those Captaincies. Many of these offenders had been detected; but the King, wishing, said the law, to cut up this evil by the roots, and at the same time to display his royal benignity, was pleased to release all persons who had been imprisoned in consequence of the late enquiry, and
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; and the extraction from the full grown animal was so imperfectly performed, that pools were literally formed by the oil which ran from the carcases, where they were left to putrify. Manoel Ferreira da Camara. Mem. Econom. t. 1. 3. 2. 2. 3. Engenhos in Bahia. Ferreira da Camara. Mem. Econom. t. 1. 3. 4. Cazal. 2. 110. The masters of Engenhos in Bahia were far from opulent, .. excellent as their sugar is, and great as was the exportation. That establishment was thought a great concern, just before
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. Gooden for the Life of F. Joam d'Almeida, among other books, and a manuscript Apology for the Jesuits in Paraguay and Maranham, of great importance; to Mr. Heber for many works concerning Spanish America, and among them a volume of papers relating to the affair of Cardenas: and to his Excellency the Conde dos Arcos, Governor of the Captaincy of Bahia, and to the Public Library of that [page viii
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India Companies 51 State of the Company in Brazil 52 General distress in Pernambuco 53 Debts fraudulently contracted by the Portugueze 54 The Portugueze vexed and oppressed by the conquerors 50 Insolence and misconduct of the Dutch 58 Popularity of Nassau injurious to his successors 60 Dutch deputation to Bahia 61 Hoogstraten offers his services to the Portugueze 63 Measures against the Priests and Religioners in Pernambuco 64 Rise of Joam Fernandes Vieira 65 His liberality 66 He is accused before
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as Governor of the Minas Geraes, that country being now separated from S. Paulo, and made a Captaincy. The Count had previously been ordered to collect all needful information for arranging the demarcation from the Rio, Bahia, and Pernambuco; to which latter province its vague territory was supposed to extend. VOL. III. Y [page] 16
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into Captaincies. St. Vicente. The Goaynazes. St. Amaro and Tamaraca. Paraiba. The Goaytacazes. Espirito Santo. The Papanazes. Porto Seguro. The Tupiniquins. Captaincy of the Ilheos. Bahia. Revolutions in the Reconcave. Expulsion of the colonists there. Pernambuco. The Cahetes. The Tobayares. Siege of Garassu. Expedition of Aires da Cunha to Maranham. Voyage of Pinzon and Solis 25 Discovery of the Plata 26 Death of Solis 27 Trade of the French to Brazil 28 Bahia discovered 29 Adventures of
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CHAP. XIV. 1624. Vandort slain. Jornada da Bahia. c. 23. Cespedes. 5. 28. hundred and fifty Indians3; he took post upon the Rio Vermelho, about a league from the city, and fortified his camp with the guns of a ship which had escaped capture by striking up one of the rivers of the Reconcave. His people had taken heart, and the first skirmishes were in their favour. Vandort went out with a reconnoitering party; he fell into an ambush, and Francisco de Padilha slew him hand to hand. Albert
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CHAP. XVII. 1640. rightful inheritance, which had so long been usurped by the House of Austria. A caravel was dispatched with advices to Bahia; the captain landed alone, and communicated his important intelligence to the Viceroy. Measures were immediately taken to prevent any boat from putting off to the ship; the heads of the religious orders and the chief persons of the city were assembled; two regiments were drawn out for the purpose of disarming the Spanish part of the garrison, and when
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CHAPTER XXI. Troops sent from Bahia under Vidal and Martim Soares. Farther success of the Insurgents Hoogstraten deserts to them. They recover the whole country to the south, and encamp before Recife. Massacre at Rio Grande. Treachery of the deserters. Camaram sent to Rio Grande, where he defeats the Dutch. Recife distressed for food. Scarcity in the camp also. The Portugueze troops receive orders from Lisbon to retire. Martim Soares obeys, but Vidal determines to persist in the war. CHAP. XXI
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CHAP. XXVIII. 1671. 1673. families of Brazil; these circumstances, and the heroic manner of his death, made a deep impression in Bahia: the evil had now, as it were, come home to them, and the Governor, with the advice of the chief persons, came to the only wise resolution, that there was no other way of securing the country than by completing the conquest of it. It was determined that the most vigorous means should be employed to crush these Savages. The Reconcave had so long been free from
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CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER XXXI. Measures of Gomes Freyre at Maranham 1 The Monopoly abolished 2 General distress in Maranham 3 Expedition against the savages on the Meary ib. The way from Maranham to Bahia explored 5 Gomes Freyre reforms the abuses of his predecessors ib. He goes to Belem ib. He convinces the Bishop of his imprudence 6 The Orellana infested by hostile tribes ib. An expedition sent against them from Belem 7 Success of the enterprize 9 Attempts of various nations to colonize in
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there should be silver pieces of 5 outavas, to pass for 600 reis, of 2 , to pass for 300, of 2, 1, and , at the proportionate rates of 240, 120, and 60. He advised also, that 40,000 cruzados should be issued in small money, of half testoens, 2 vintens and one vintem, in the proportion of 15,000 for Bahia, 9000 For Pernambuco, and 6000 for Rio de Janeiro: the remaining 10,000 to be in copper coin; 5000 for Bahia, 3000 for Pernambuco, and 2000 for the Rio. The want of small money, he said, was
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Contagion in the camp 144 Massacre at the Potengi 145 Desultory warfare ib. Treachery of the deserters 147 The Dutch suspect the deserters 150 Transactions at the Potengi 153 Camaram defeats the Dutch there 155 Orders from Bahia to burn the sugar canes 157 Distress in Recife 158 Vidal goes to join Camaram 159 Jubilee 160 Vidal returns from Paraiba 161 Scarcity in the Camp 163 The Portugueze secure the ports of Nazareth and Tamandare 165 The Dutch attempt to intercept the convoy from the
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CHAP. XXX. Dampier found an Englishman at Bahia, established there as a merchant in good repute, and having a patent as English Consul. But when gold in abundance was obtained by the short process of digging for it, both the government and the people were but too willing to neglect the slow and surer means of a healthier prosperity, and the ports of Brazil were closed against all foreigners. Attempt to introduce the culture of spices. An attempt was made toward the close of the seventeenth
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the Portugueze cabinet 125 Pedro de Vasconcellos Governor 126 Impost of ten per cent. ib. Insurrection at Bahia ib. The Governor yields to the demands of the mob 128 They assemble again for the relief of the Rio ib. Office of the Juiz do Povo abolished at Bahia 130 Marquez de Angeja Viceroy ib. Fear of a second expedition from France 131 Designs of England upon South America apprehended ib. Negociations with France at Utrecht 132 Difficulty respecting the commerce of Brazil 133 The Assiento 135
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CHAP. II. 15105. Adventures of Diogo Alvarez, or Caramuru. The first settler in Bahia was Diogo Alvarez, a native of Viana, young and of noble family, who with that spirit of enterprize which was then common among his countrymen, embarked to seek his fortune in strange countries. He was wrecked upon the shoals on the North of the bar of Bahia6. Part of the crew were lost, others escaped this death to suffer one more dreadful; the natives seized and eat them. Diogo saw that there was no other
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Coutinho. Noticias. MSS. 1. 28. S. Vasc. C.C. 1. 34. This was the state of the Tupinambas in Bahia, when Coutinho formed his establishment among them. That fidalgo had served in India, and India was not a school where humanity or political wisdom was to be learnt. A son of one of the native Chiefs was slain by the Portugueze; the circumstances are not recorded, but it is admitted that the deed was done wrongfully. Coutinho paid dearly for his offence. These fierce savages, then the most formidable
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CHAP. X. 1572. Noticias. MSS. 1. 24. R. Pitta. 3. 61 62. still preserved. A good body of adventurers was raised in Bahia and the Ilheos, and they colonized three leagues within the bar. The spot was ill chosen, .. no vessel of more than sixty tons could enter; and the land, as far as the tide reached, which was six or seven leagues, was fit for little but cattle: higher up it was very good. Brito was soon obliged to come to their assistance against the Savages: he gave them a severe overthrow
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CHAP. X. 1581. especially in lands that were newly settled. Snakes were particularly destructive in the pigeon-houses, eating both eggs and young. Tea and Coffee indigenous in Brazil. Noticias. MSS. 2. 44. Culture of Ginger prohibited. Noticias. MSS. 2. 32. Noticias. MSS. 2. 31. Tea9 had lately been discovered in Bahia, of which, says the author of this manuscript, great profit might be made. Coffee also grew there. The mention of these commodities, at a time when both were so little known in
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brought against the Aymores. In other parts of Brazil the Company were more successful. The Aymores were ravaging Bahia, and Botelho besought the Captain of Pernambuco to provide a force of Pitagoares against them. None but a Jesuit could raise this force: F. Diogo Nunes went among them, and eight hundred chosen warriors put themselves under his guidance, upon his promise, that as soon as the war was ended, they should return to their families. When they reached St. Salvador, the pressing danger
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unable to subsist without it, abandoned their establishments; all who had the means of removing fled also, till at length there were scarcely twenty families left in the Captaincy; poor wretches who could not fly, who had no slaves to work for them, and who lived only upon herbs and roots. The Aymores were thus masters of this whole part of the country, and Bahia itself was not safe from their assaults. Alvaro Rodriguez conciliutesthem. Some twelve leagues South of Bahia, a wealthy Portugueze, by
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CHAP. XIII. 1614. and water before they could reach the fort at Seara, which was the place appointed for their junction; and they who went by sea, sure to become a prey to the pirates, if they fell in with them, being deprived of their main force. They reach the Presidio das Tartarugas. Berredo. 226 34. The Commander yielded to these reasons, after two days had been lost in vacillation. Two days after their departure from Rio Grande, they put into Bahia do Iguape; by that time, sea-sickness
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CHAP. XIV. 1629. sisted in sending ships to these parts, and in forming settlements, for the sake of cultivating tobacco; and the trade of Para was materially injured by this competition. The Dutch prepare an expedition against Pernambuco. G. Giuseppe p. 89. Cast Lus. 2. 3. Meantime the West India Company were projecting attemps upon Brazil. It was not advisable to attack Bahia a second time, they had experienced too severely the spirit of the Portugueze in that province, and could never more
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CHAP. XV. 1631. B. Freire. 403 9. to make Bahia first, .. ill-judged instructions, unless there was no design of meeting the enemy; for it gave the Dutch Admiral time to reach Recife, to land his troops and supplies, make every thing ready for battle, and sail in quest of it with sixteen good ships. Navalaction. Death of the Dutch Admiral. Oquendo's fleet consisted of twenty ships of war, the twelve caravels with troops for Pernambuco and Paraiba, and four and twenty merchantmen laden with
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, and said he was come to pilot them in. Vasconcellos, instead of immediately following this advice, called a council, and was persuaded by his officers to proceed thirty leagues North, to the Potengi. In the morning he found himself near the Bahia da Trai am, and three Dutch ships bearing down to attack him. Some of the caravels ran aground, others got into the Potengi, and were there taken. The Dutch did not attempt to board the ships because they were afraid of the troops; but they kept up such a
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CHAP. XVI. 1637. B. Freire. 792. 802. would not take them in? To this it was replied, that Bahia would now joyfully receive the succours which it had lately scorned; for when swords were drawn in Seregipe their glittering was seen at St. Salvador. There too was the fit place to exert themselves, for in saving the head of the State, they preserved the whole. Bagnuolo assented to these arguments, sent a party to lay waste the country behind him with fire, and again retreated with the miserable
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command, and ordered him to seize the present opportunity of extending their conquests as widely as possible. Especially, they observed, it was of importance to get possession of Bahia, and if he should not think it practicable to win the city either by fraud or force, they recommended him to besiege and blockade it, as in that case means might be found of obtaining it when peace was made. It is a Dutch historian who relates this, and he states it openly, without appearing to perceive the iniquity
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