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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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CHAP. XIX. 1641. Cast. Lus. 5. 24. Ericeyra. 1. 495. sions, he was instructed to take every thing from them, and warn them that on a third attempt their lives would be the forfeiture. These orders he obeyed so well that the conquerors were imprisoned within the town which they had so dishonourably won, and reduced to depend for subsistence upon what they received by sea. Spanish and Neapolitan troops sent from Bahia. Valeroso Lucideno. p. 115. Bahia had lost a great part of its force in
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Government should gladly grant Cardozo and his men a safe conduct to return to Bahia. Fernandes replied, that it was useless to propose a plan to which Cardozo, as a soldier and a man of honour, could never consent. Leaving them then, he hastened to Cardozo, to tell him what had occurred, and who the persons were whom he suspected of being the traitors, that he might be on his guard against them. and to make Cardozo return to Bahia. This warning was in good time. While Cardozo was brooding over
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CHAP. XXI. 1645. be delayed when he should receive the news of this success. They therefore recalled Haus to Recife, where his troops were now considered to be necessary for the defence of the place. Embassy to Bahia. About three weeks before the battle, Hoogstraten and another deputy had again been sent to Bahia, to express the full persuasion of the Dutch Government that Camaram and Diaz were in no degree authorized in their invasion by the Portugueze Governor; and to request that he would
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musquetry, went with the Chaplain of the Establishment into the Church, and kneeling before St. Sebastian's altar, implored his assistance for their countrymen. Immediately the image began to sweat, like one who was violently exerting himself; and the drops continued to run as long as the action lasted, so that all who were present wetted their handkerchiefs in the miraculous effusion. Blaar murdered on the way to Bahia. Joam Fernandes was now undisputed master of the field, in a country where he
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leave to serve in Bahia, feeling humiliated in their present situation: their request was granted, and on their arrival at S. Salvador they were appointed to the same rank in a Portugueze regiment. The Dutch suspect the deserters. As the contest was now carried on with all the mines and countermines of insidious policy, the Camp-Masters upon this occasion framed a letter to the Dutch Governors, which purported to be written by one of their friends, and stated, that Nicolzon and his party were
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to record them: nor ought such things, incidental and undecisive as they are, to be always left unnoticed in history. A true sense of the evils of war can never be impressed too strongly upon mankind: woe be to those through whose guilt they are inflicted, .. and woe be to those also who shrink from enduring them when duty requires the sacrifice. Schoppe recalled from Bahia. Nieuhoff, 119. Cast. Lus. 8, 38. Vasr. Vida de Almeida, VI. 5, 5 6. The harbour, as well as the streets, was commanded
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very crude. Some months afterwards the King sent for Vieyra at an early hour from Carcavelos, where he was recovering from an illness, to Alcantara. You are a prophet, said he: News arrived from Bahia last night that Schoppe has fortified himself in Itaparica: what shall we do? Vieyra replied, The remedy is very easy. Your ministers said my project was crude; since they found it crude then, let them cook it now. A Council was held, and Vieyra, by the King's desire, waited on him the next day to
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CHAP. XXII. 1647. Cartos de Vieyra, T. 2, C. 118. sum! Immediately he hastened to Lisbon, and wrote to a merchant whom he had formerly known in Bahia, saying, the King wanted a loan to that amount, which would be repaid by a tax upon sugar. In two hours this Duarte da Sylva and another merchant promised the money. Vieyra accordingly took them to the King, and the business was managed so that the ministers had the whole credit to themselves. Vieyra is sent to Holland. Vieyra Cartos, T. 2, C
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name from the Saint on the day of whose translation he was baptized in the Cathedral of that city. When he was in his eighth year his parents removed to Bahia, where he went to the Jesuits' school. At first he was only remarkable for stopping regularly on the way to worship the images of N. Senhora da F , or of another Lady called N. Senhora das Maravilhas, both which idols were in high repute at Bahia; but he was behind-hand in his studies, and his intellects appeared to be clouded. The boy felt
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this sum; but 600,000 cruzados were still wanting, and a free gift was requested toward the deficiency. The Chamber readily consented to the assessment, and voted toward the dowry an annual contribution of 20,000 cruzados, for the like term of sixteen years. Six persons were named to consult with the Vereadores, and apportion the tax. Of the 140,000 cruzados which were to be raised, Bahia took 80,000 upon itself; the remaining sixty were divided2 among the other thirteen Captaincies. 1 This is
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government by Antonio de Sousa de Menezes, of the Silver Arm, so called from the costly and inconvenient substitute which he wore for a limb lost in the Pernambucan war; he was of high family, and far advanced in life: it was hoped that years had given him discretion, and that being childless he would not be greedy of wealth. Unfortunately he had become familiar at Lisbon with Francisco Telles de Menezes, a native of Bahia, whom the Conde de Obidos had sent prisoner to Portugal; but who, being
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tribunal, the innocence of the two brothers was substantiated and fully acknowledged by the Court, and the General of the Company, as if to mark the opinion of his Order respecting Vieyra, appointed him Visitor of the Province. 1636. Pestilence in Brazil. Bahia had scarcely begun to enjoy a regular and benignant administration when it was visited by pestilence. The disease began in Recife, where it carried off more than two thousand persons; it soon reached Olinda, and spread itself over the Varzea
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trace remained either of the religion, language, or manners of Holland. The ambitious struggle which the Dutch carried on so long, with such inhumanity, and such an expence of treasure and of blood, produced no other benefit than that of proving, as a warning for other powers, how impossible it is to effect a permanent conquest of Brazil. A people of such determined nationality as the Portugueze, in such a country, are invincible by any human force. Population of Bahia. Papel Forte. Ms. Noticias
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