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who were persecuted with such devilish cruelty and inconceivable impolicy in the mother country and in Spain. Much as the Brazilians abhorred a Jew, and suspected all of Jewish race, they were by no means willing to have a Holy Office established in their country: the20 attempts of that execrable institution to extend 19 As the Portugueze prisons are infamously bad, it is curious that Dellon should describe that at Bahia as le plus propre of all he had been in before; and he had tried many in

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danger, where there is a sure prospect of gain. In the early part of the seventeenth century, many of them in that city were worth from sixty to a hundred thousand crowns, and there were some of even greater opulence; but no wealth could purchase the respect of their bigotted countrymen. Nine or ten years were sufficient at this time for realizing a fortune in Bahia. Pyrard, who came from India, had never seen silver so common in any city as in this; .. it was smuggled from Buenos Ayres by an

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CHAP. XXXI. 1693. Vieyra Cartas. 2. 449. 1694. State of the coin. the mistaken policy of both Courts, the intercourse was with common consent prohibited, goods to the amount of 300,000 cruzados were left dead upon the merchants' hands at Nova Colonia, and of double that amount at the Rio. Papel de Antonio Luiz Coutinho, M. S. Vieyra Cartas. t. 3. 399. Antonio Luiz was succeeded by D. Joam de Lancastro. The representations which had repeatedly been made of the defenceless state of Bahia were at

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sense of oppression provokes. The result was, that these unhappy but obstinate men were thrown into prison at Bahia, and detained there as long as they lived, .. so absolute was the Government, so tenacious of its sovereignty, when the precious metals were in view, and so tyranical in its proceedings. Agostinho Barbalho and Fernando Diaz, directed to pursue the search. Carta d' El Rey D. Affonso 6. MS. 27th Sept. 1664. Agostinho Barbalho Bezerra, who held the rank of Campmaster at Bahia, was

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English squadron arrived off Brest, so that if it had not been for this promptitude on the part of the Commander, the expedition would have been frustrated. He sailed from Rochelle with his collected force on the 9th of June: the passage was delayed by contrary gales which continued a full month, but on the 27th of August he arrived in the latitude of Bahia: he then called a council of war, and proposed to visit that port on the way, and capture or destroy the vessels which might be found there

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the cost of private adventurers, but with the assistance of government; and Bahia was the chief object in view. The command was given to M. Cassar, who was thought more proper for such expeditions than Du Guay-Trouin; but the Abb de Polignac pronounced the best eulogy upon that gallant seaman, when he rated him below the present commander, because he preferred the glorious to the profitable, and if he fell in with an enemy's fleet, would engage the ships of war, instead of making it his chief

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CHAP. XXXIII. 1716. able to the people, and the Governor therefore was instructed again to accept the thirty arrobas (about 50,400l.). A Recolhimento founded at Bahia. Under the viceroyalty of the Marquez de Angeja an institution was opened at Bahia, of a kind which has often been advised, and is greatly needed in Protestant Countries, and no where more needed than in England at this time; .. a Recolhimento, or retreat for women, who were bound by no vows nor distinguished by any habit, but

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; and its capital, Villa do Principe, had been made a town about fourteen years before the discovery, .. a discovery which accelerated the peopling of the district, but in every other respect has produced much more evil than good. When the Captaincy of Minas Geraes was separated from the Government of S. Paulo, the boundaries were to be traced between the new Captaincy and the adjoining ones of the Rio, Bahia, and Pernambuco. The surveyors, who in this wild country were significantly called

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Bahia, and had moreover the advantage of greater security; for its port was strongly fortified, whereas that of Bahia was incapable of such means of defence. This change had been going on during the last fifteen years, under the successive viceroyalties of D. Luiz Peregrino de Attayde, Conde de Attouguia, of D. Marcos de Noronha, Conde dos Arcos, and of the Marquez de Lavradio, D. Antonio de Almeida Soares. The Conde da Cunha, D. Antonio Alvares da Cunha, was now appointed to that high office, and

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new and important branch of trade. The cattle from Piauhy, till the year 1769, were driven to Bahia, or Minas Geraes,.. a journey of nearly three hundred leagues, and through a country which presented many serious impediments. Joam Paulo formed establishments in the heart of the grazing country, eighty leagues up the river, for jerking beef, brought it down the stream to Parnaiba, and exported it to Bahia, the Rio, and Para. About the end of the last century, sixteen or seventeen vessels came

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standing hay; and when that is consumed, the cattle perish by thousands. Patriota. 3. 3. 22. Cazal. 2. 237. Trade in cattle. Maranham, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Minas Geraes, looked chiefly to Piauhy for their cattle. The communication with Maranham is easy; that with Pernambuco lies through a country, where want of rain not unfrequently occasions extreme suffering; but between Piauhy and the Rio S. Francisco, a Sertam intervenes, varying in breadth from twelve and fifteen to forty or fifty leagues

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CHAP. XLIV. Patriota. 3. 6. 79. Salt trade from Pilam Arcado. Cazal. 2. 190. Villa da Barra do Rio Grande. receives part of the waters of the Forbidden District, and is joined by other streams which are believed to be rich in diamonds and in gold. When it enters the Captaincy of Bahia it flows through a desert country; and the upper part of its course, when it touches Pernambuco, is not through better land. Toward the close of the eighteenth century there were no other inhabitants upon its

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CHAP. XLIV. instituted (soon after the Removal,) by the Conde dos Arcos, D. Marcos de Noronha, among the many excellent measures of his government, .. the best with which Bahia ever was blessed. There were also a Misericordia with its Hospital, a Lazar-house for Lepers, at a proper distance from the city, liberally endowed, and charitably administered; an Orphan-house for the children of White parents, a Seminary for Orphans, a Theatre, a Mint, Public Tribunals of every kind, and Royal

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. Cultivation of Pepper. Arruda. Institu am. p. 9. The oriental spice trees, which Vieyra had watched with such patriotic pleasure, when at his instigation they were introduced, had been neglected and lost, and were now re-introduced more than a century afterwards. Francisco da Cunha e Menezes, sent pepper-vines from Goa not many years before the Removal; and being subsequently appointed to the Government of Bahia, interested himself greatly in the culture. Many thousand stocks were distributed

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Bahia is naturally divided by a chain of mountains of considerable elevation: from the eastern side the numerous streams proceed which flow into the Reconcave, and 28 Mr. Lindley says, that a cotton-spinner, who, about the beginning of the present century, attempted to set up a manufactory near Bahia, was sent to Europe, and his machinery destroyed. The prohibition of manufactures in a colony, is impolitic and unjust; but the speculator must have known that he was acting in defiance of the existing

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CHAP. XLIV. Comarca of Jacobina. Sertoens of Bahia. those which form the rivers of Ilheos. The western division, called the Comarca da Jacobina, from its capital, was formerly rich in gold, .. in all better things, greatly inferior to the maritime district. This portion comprehends the country on which the Rio S. Francisco enters, when it leaves its native province; and it resembles in its character the worst part of the Sertoens of Pernambuco and Seara. Population, however, was scattered

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insipidity of the fruit would not be regarded as a fault, because the Portugueze overpower every other flavour in their sweetmeats by the excess of sugar which they use. Between this town and Jacobina, which lies between two and three hundred miles to the north, the greater part of the country was uninhabited, and travellers were obliged to carry water. Rio de Contas prospered, because it was on the high way from Bahia. Along the beaten roads, from every great port to any populous part of the

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number of their slaves; they raised so much, that the meal became a great article of export to Bahia: but in 1806, the inhabitants were actually suffering scarcity, because they were afraid to cultivate their lands. The predominant race in the maritime towns were Mamalucos, of Tupiniquin extraction: there were some pure Indians; very few of pure European blood, and not many Negroes, .. the intermediate breed, of all shades, far exceeding the unmixed races. Agues were endemic; but wherever

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CHAP. XLIV. Cazal. 1. 352. Do. 338. great numbers; and they manufactured woollen cloth as well as calico. They enjoyed also the advantage of a transit trade; the caravans from Villa Boa, and Cuyaba, to the Rio, S. Paulo and Bahia, touched there, and then separated according to their destination. An elastic stone is found in this neighbourhood. But the part of this extensive Captaincy, which has the most natural advantages, is the district of New Beira, a tract one hundred and thirty leagues in

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CHAPTER II. Voyage of Pinzon and Solis. Discovery of the Rio de la Plata. The French trade to Brazil. History of Caramuru. Brazil divided 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. CHAP

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CHAP. XII. 1586. Rel. Ann. ff. 114. made them suppose they could take St. Salvador, and accordingly the Commander, who had more inclination for plunder than for the passage of the Straits, over-ruled the opinion of his Vice-Admiral, and made for Bahia. No sooner was the approach of the enemy perceived, than Christovam de Gouvea, the Jesuit visitor, sent for all the converted Indians in the adjoining country, and these formidable archers preserved the city and its immediate vicinity; but the

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CHAPTER XV. Camp of Bom Jesus formed. Calabar deserts to the Dutch, and turns the fortune of the War. Negroes of the Palmares. The Island of Itamaraca, Rio Grande. Paraiba, Tamaraca, the Camp, and Nazareth reduced. CHAP. XV. 1630. The Portugueze really. Brito Freire. 315. But in Pernambuco, as in Bahia, the Portugueze had no sooner abandoned the city, than they began to recollect themselves and recover heart. Their previous misconduct is rather attributable to ill management than to any want

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CHAPTER XVI. Emigration from Pernambuco. Porto Calvo recovered, and Calabar put to death. Succours sent out under Roxas, who is defeated and slain. Bagnuolo succeeds to the command, and carries on a harrassing warfare with success. Mauritz Count of Nassau arrives as Governor General of the Dutch; his wise measures: he pursues the Portugueze to the River St. Francisco, and Bagnuolo, abandoning the Captaincy of Seregipe, retreats to Bahia. CHAP. XVI. 1635. Emigration from Pernambuco. Mathias de

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season had set in, and time was thus gained for the Pernambucans to follow up the advantages which they had gained. But the negociations at Munster, as they emboldened the States, so they alarmed the Court of Portugal; and it was in the fear of an offensive alliance between Spain and Holland that Joam dispatched those orders to Bahia which Joam Fernandes and Vidal so bravely disobeyed. [page 174

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CHAPTER XXII. Attempt to assassinate Joam Fernandes. Second enterprize against Itamaraca. Recife, when in the utmost distress, relieved by a fleet from Holland. Schoppe returns to take the command, and makes an unsuccessful attempt upon Bahia. Barreto sent out to command the Portugueze. Battle of Guararapes. Recovery of Angola. Negociations with Holland. Brazil Company established. Second battle of Guararapes. Siege and capture of Recife. Negociations and final agreement with Holland. CHAP

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commercial pursuits, were alike conducive to political order; and the authority of the Mother Country was sustained by a regular, if not frequent intercourse, and by the appointment of men of high rank and character to the chief command. Such men brought with them more than the mere authority which their appointment conferred; the nobility of Portugal was not yet degraded; and though the vices which corrupted the administration of government in Lisbon, were but too faithfully followed in Bahia

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CHAPTER XXVIII. Barreto Governor of Brazil. Tumults in Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco. Small Pox in Brazil. Peace with Spain. The Guerens ravage the borders of Bahia, and the adjoining settlements: they are expelled by the Paulistas. Discovery and conquest of Piauhi. Foundation of Nova Colonia. Disputes with Spain concerning the left bank of the Plata. Pestilence. CHAP. XXVIII. 1657. Barreto Governor General. 1662. After the triumphant termination of the Pernambucan war, Barreto, who had borne

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CHAPTER XXX. View of the progress of Brazil during the seventeenth century. Maranham and Para: state of the revenues and establishment. Produce. Expeditions into the interior. Slavery. Seara. Rio Grande. Pernambuco. Transitory effects of the Dutch conquest. Bahia. Rio de Janeiro. S. Paulo. State of manners. Artifices of the Clergy. Audacious fables of the Jesuits. Life of F. Joam d'Almeida. CHAP. XXX. 1685. Seventy years had now elapsed since the Portugueze established themselves in Maranham

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a Quinta, or country residence belonging to the Jesuits, near Bahia, and two Canarins who understood the management both of cinnamon and pepper, were brought from Goa to attend to their culture. The Governor, Roque da Costa, was much interested in a plan which promised such beneficial consequences; and Vieyra, in his extreme old age, delighted to report to him the state of the plants and their increase. But Vieyra feared that care and perseverance would be wanting to go on with what had been so

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Freyre was sent out ostensibly as Governor to Pernambuco, but in reality to provide for receiving them; and in conformity to the King's directions, Vieyra, who was then in Maranham, received orders to hold himself in readiness to join him there and assist him with his counsel. The reason for preferring Pernambuco to Bahia seems to have been because Recife was the stronger place, and capable of holding out against any force which Spain might send against the royal refugees. The danger was indeed

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HISTORY OF BRAZIL. CHAPTER XXXI. Measures of Gomes Freyre at Maranham. Expedition against the tribes on the Orellana. Settlement of the French at Cayene. Mathias da Cunha Governor General. Mutiny at Bahia. Antonio Luiz Goncalez da Camara Coutinho. D. Joam de Lancastro. Money coined in Brazil. War against the Negroes of the Palmares. Disputes with France concerning the boundary. Death of Vieyra. Troubles excited by the Bishop of Maranham. CHAP. XXXI. 1686. Measures of Gomes Freyre at Maranham

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CHAPTER XXXII. Discovery of the Minas Geraes. First code of regulations. Discovery and fate of Marcos de Azevedo. Gold exhibited at Espirito Santo by Antonio Rodriguez Arzam. Bertolomeu Bueno inherits his papers and prosecutes his researches. Growth of Settlements. Second code. Influx of adventurers to the Minas. Decay of commerce in consequence at Bahia. D. Rodrigo da Costa Governor General. Siege of Nova Colonia, which is evacuated by the Portugueze. Luiz Cesar de Menezes Governor. Affairs

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; and the general introduction of a civilized in place of a savage language, removed an obstacle which, so long as it continued, must have precluded any intellectual advancement. Recorda oens, de Ratton. 57. Cazal. 2. 256. 276. Whaling Company. Carvalho also chartered an exclusive Company for the Whale Fishery; it formed establishments upon the coast of Bahia and [page] 55

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, i. 642. Mitayos, under the encomienda system, ii. 260. Mocambo, or Negro hiding-place in the woods, movement of Joam Fernandes to a, ii. 95. Mocambos, villages of the Palmares, i. 495. Mocobis, an equestrian tribe, iii. 397. Mompo, D. Fernando, excites a faction of the commons in Paraguay, iii. 233; arrested by Barreyro, 237. Money, clipt, enormous amount of in Bahia, iii. 883. Money, table of, iii. 900. Moni o, D. Joseph, minister of Spain, iii. 664. (See Florida Blanca.) Moniz Barreiro

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; their attempts to relieve Nazareth, 509; it capitulates, 513; emigration from Pernambuco, 514; recover Porto Calvo, 516; reinforcements arrive under Roxas, 521; Bagnuolo succeeds to the command, 524; Predatory system of warfare, 526; second emigration from Pernambuco, 527; pursued by Nassau to the San Francisco, 533; retreat to Bahia, 543; loss of St. Jorge da Mina, 544; Seara taken by the Dutch, 546; proceedings at Recife, 547; Bahia entered, and St. Salvador besieged, 551; letters intercepted

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Tourinho and Adorno in search of mines ib. Settlement at Rio Real made and abandoned 314 The two governments reunited 315 Brazil offered to the Duke of Braganza ib. Attempt of Antonio the Prior upon Brazil 316 State of Brazil at this time ib. St. Salvador and the Reconcave 317 Tea and coffee indigenous there 320 Culture of ginger prohibited ib. Leafless parasite plants 321 Fishery at Bahia 322 Mermaids 323 Rumours of emerald mines ib. People of Bahia ib. Pernambuco 324 St. Vicente 325 Espirito

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Ravages of the Aymores 385 They are conciliated by Alvaro Rodriguez in Bahia ib. And at Ilheos by the Jesuits 387 Success of the Jesuits 389 Settlement at Seara 391 French expedition to Maranham 392 Foundation of S. Luiz 397 Rasilly returns to France 399 Gaspar de Sousa ordered to colonize towards the Orellana 400 First expedition of Jeronymo de Alhuquerque ib. Diogo de Campos sent out 401 Martim Soares driven to Europe 402 Second expedition of Jeronymo 403 His junction with Diogo 404 They

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Calvo recovered, and Calabar put to death. Succours sent out under Roxas, who is defeated and slain. Bagnuolo succeeds to the command, and carries on a harrassing warfare with success. Mauritz Count of Nassau arrives as Governor General of the Dutch; his wise measures: he pursues the Portugueze to the River St. Francisco, and Bagnuolo, abandoning the Captaincy of Seregipe, retreats to Bahia. Emigration from Pernambueo 514 Treachery of Sonto towards the Dutch 515 Porto Calvo recovered 516

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Bahia ib. Small pox in Brazil 554 Vidal Governor of Pernambuco 555 Succeeded by Jeronymo Furtado ib. Discontents at Olinda 556 Peace with Spain 558 Settlement of Cayru ib. The Guerens infest Bahia and the adjoining provinces 562 Death of Manoel Barbosa 563 The Paulistas called in against the Guerens 564 [page] x

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, 73; promises to assist Fernandes in the deliverance of Pernambuco, 79; sends troops from Bahia under Vidal and Martim Soares, 119; sends orders that Pernambuco shall be relinquished to the Dutch, 169; returns to Portugal, 231. Telles de Menezes, Alcaide Mor of Bahia, ii. 581; killed by Brito de Castro, 582. Temembos, or Macamecrans, tribe of, in Maranham, iii. 747. Temple, Sir William, cited respecting the climate of Brazil, iii. 898. Tertre, du, cited respecting the Dutch settlers ejected from

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, subject to the Province of Portugal. Two years afterwards D. Pedro Fernandes Sardinha arrived as Bishop of Brazil, bringing with him Priests, Canons, and Dignitaries, and Church ornaments of every kind for his Cathedral; he had studied and graduated at Paris, had held the office of Vicar-General in India, and, unhappily for himself, was now sent to Bahia. At this time no better colonists could be sent out than the Clergy, for none were employed upon this mission except such as were selected for

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CHAP. IX. 1556. Vasc. Vid. de Anchieta. l. 2. c. 1. 2. Pimentel 305. had long traded with the French. Rio de Janeiro, like Bahia, seems to have been formerly a great fresh-water lake, which has broken down its barrier. The water almost touches the foot of the Organ mountains, so called from some resemblance which has been fancied in their form, and the whole bay is surrounded by one of the highest and most rugged parts of the Cordillera. The entrance is between two high rocks, through a strait

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CHAP. XIII. 1615. The treaty broken by the Portugueze .. July 31. Berredo. 376 380. The terms of the treaty were not long observed; little infractions, if not openly countenanced, were at least permitted on both sides. After awhile succours poured in to Jeronymo, some from Bahia and Pernambuco under Francisco Caldeira de Castello Branco, others from Portugal under Miguel de Sequeira Sanhudo. Upon receiving these reinforcements, he informed Ravardiere that instructions were come out to him from

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CHAP. XIV. 1623. been more welcome; but another storm interrupted their hopes, and the fleet was again separated. Vandort was driven back to Serra Leoa; Willekens beat on against the wind, and made the Morro de St. Paulo, twelve leagues from Bahia, where he remained off the coast waiting for Vandort: he expected that this delay would lessen the alarm which his appearance occasioned, and that the Portugueze would suppose he had been driven there by stress of weather. St. Salvador taken. The

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heavy expence of men, in the fatal climate of the Cape de Verds, before the Spanish fleet joined them. It consisted of forty sail and eight thousand soldiers under D. Fadrique de Toledo. So powerful a fleet had never before crossed the line. The Bishop is superseded, and dies. Jornada da Bahia. c. 24. Cespedes. 5. 20. Meantime Mathias de Albuquerque received tidings of his nomination to the government in consequence of the succession-papers, and also by a direct appointment from the mother

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Rico, from whence they were driven with great loss; the other half attempted to surprise S. Jorge da Mina, and were in like manner repulsed. Henrik died of the contagion; the survivors being weary of buccaneering, and dispirited, mutinied at last, and compelled their officers to return to Holland. Disasters of the Portugueze fleet. This expedition to Bahia proved equally destructive to both parties. D. Fadrique left D. Francisco de Moura Rolim, the new Governor, with a sufficient garrison in

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this work of havock returned to Fort Mauritz. Thus instead of taking the forsaken inhabitants under their protection, and conciliating them by fair treatment, they drove them on to Bahia, and increased the strength of St. Salvador with a body of men rendered formidable by despair, and the memory of their wrongs. During this campaign in the Captaincy of Seregipe, a tremendous havock was made among the cattle. Bagnuolo is said to have driven away eight thousand head, and slaughtered five, rather

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CHAP. XVII. 1639. transported to Bahia, others to a farther banishment. Farther enquiry produced no confirmation of the suspected plot, yet because a rumour prevailed that a Spanish fleet was looked for, these men were neither acquitted nor condemned, but still kept in confinement. Artisjoski comes out, but soon returns in disgust. Barl us. 103 7. Early in the ensuing year, Artisjoski returned to Brazil with a small reinforcement, and with orders to act as a secret inspector over Nassau; a

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savages were politickly quartered in the island of Itamaraca as hostages, while they were let loose upon Bahia. Nassau's next measure was to expel all the Religioners from the conquered provinces, and then Jol was sent to the Reconcave, to lay it waste with fire and sword at a time when the main force being absent, no resistance could be made. These instructions were executed, and the whole of the sugar-works in that extensive bay, then the most prosperous in America, were totally consumed. By this

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CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER XIX. The Revolution in Portugal announced to Nassau 1 Truce for ten years concluded with Holland 2 Treachery of the Dutch 4 Embassy of Vilhena to Recife ib. Paulo da Cunha and Henrique Diaz recalled from Pernambuco 5 The Dutch surprise Seregipe 6 Spanish and Neapolitan troops sent from Bahia 7 Expedition of the Dutch against Angola ib. Effects of the loss of Loanda upon Brazil 10 Expedition against the Island of S. Thomas 11 The Governor capitulates 12 Mortality among