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interior. Olinda. Pernambuco was not less flourishing than Bahia. After the death of the first Donatory, a general confederacy was formed by the natives against the Portugueze. The Queen Regent, upon receiving intelligence of this, ordered Duarte Coelho de Alboquerque, who had succeeded to his father's right, to go immediately and succour the Captaincy in person; and he besought her to order his brother Jorge de Alboquerque Coelho to accompany him. They reached Olinda in 1560; the Jesuits in

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at this time that no trade could be carried on between Bahia and Pernambuco, on account of the regular winds. Such an exchange however of rogues and murderers went on by land between St. Salvador and Olinda, that when the author of the Noticias recommended the formation of a settlement upon the river Seregippe, one of the reasons which he assigned was, that it would tend materially to check this passage of criminals from one Captaincy to another. St. Vicente. St. Vicente also continued to

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CHAP. XII. 1587. honour was one of which he was not ambitious, and having twice embarked from Lisbon, and twice been driven back, he requested permission to resign; the resignation was accepted, and D. Francisco de Sousa chosen to succeed him. D. Francisco de Sousa Governor. Rumour of Silver Mines. The new Governor set out with higher expectations than any of his predecessors. A descendant of Caramuru, by name Roberio Diaz, was at this time one of the richest and most powerful men in Bahia. He

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differed from the other Brazilians; but there were some tribes who removed their habitations every day, and therefore never cultivated the ground. Some hordes used the throwing-stick instead of the bow. There was a tribe called Maraques, whose haunts were in the interior of Bahia, about eighty leagues inland, among whom the women wore a sort of apron; all the others were naked. These people fished with the net, of which the Tupinambas were ignorant; they made it of a long lithe creeper; and while one

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, who meantime had informed the Captain of Bahia of the hope he entertained, and requested the prayers of all good people for its happy accomplishment. Some of the woman's relations were at length persuaded to go to St. Salvador; the presents which they received there, and the wonders which they related on their return, induced fifty others to visit the Commander; and their peaceable appearance in that city was considered as an event so little to have been expected, and so important to the welfare

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other four; and the Captaincy which had hitherto with difficulty been preserved from utter destruction by the help of frequent succours from Bahia, was effectually delivered from its enemies. Success of the Jesuits. Noticias. MSS. So well had Nobrega's system been followed by Anchieta and his disciples, that in the course of half a century all the natives along the coast of Brazil, as far as the Portugueze settlements extended, were collected in villages, under their superintendance. Their work

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be mistaken by the enemy for Portugueze. But when the Governor left Pernambuco for Bahia, the inferior officers, to whom he deputed the charge of sending succours to Martim Soares, neglected him; nor was this his only danger; attempts were made to alienate the Tapuyas, by a Portugueze who preferred them to his countrymen, perhaps because the frequent sight of oppression had produced in him a hatred of his own nation, .. perhaps because the society of savages was better suited to his own wild

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CHAP. XIV. 1625. Jornada da Bahia. c. . Cespedes. 6. 11. G. Giuseppe p. 68. from Holland must soon arrive, called a council of war, and proposed to land three thousand men, and leave the main force of the expedition on board to intercept the enemy's succours. It was objected, that only one encampment could be formed with that number of troops, and then it would be impossible to harrass the besieged by keeping them on the alarm at different points. The conclusion was, that half the army should

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word to the full extent in which he had pledged it, and as solicitous to dismiss the Dutch as they were to feel themselves at liberty. Provisions were scarce; the country round Bahia had been the seat of war; in spite therefore of all its natural abundance, stores were wanting, not merely to victual the prisoners, but also for his own fleet. He lost no time in sending to the other Captaincies for all the supplies which they could afford: old ships were repaired, and the completion of new ones

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injury upon the enemy, at the risque of crippling his own fleet in the action. He therefore stood off to the North and passed Olinda in a gale of wind, where the people expected to be attacked, and made ready for defence. The gale drove him on till he anchored in Bahia de Trai am; here the natives5 were disposed to join with 5 Brito Freire, ( 286) speaks like a good man of the rigour with which these natives were punished for having welcomed the Dutch. Inasmuch, says he, as we had failed to give

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from home, the less was their respect for authority, and the more difficult it was to restrain them. The Prince of Grange, steady in his views, opposed the pacific party, and as war to a strong maritime power is a lottery which will always tempt adventurers, his politicks prevailed. The Spaniards having recovered Bahia, relapsed into their wonted supineness, and no means were taken for securing Brazil, lamentably as its insecurity had now been made manifest. Repeated losses by sea made them at

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CHAP. XIV. 1626. Exploit of Heyne at Bahia. Brito Freire. 305. sixteen ships which were in the harbour were, in fear of this visit, drawn up under the guns of the fort, and four of the largest were manned with troops, and placed outermost as batteries to protect the rest. Oliveira did not even think this sufficient, and planted two and forty large battering pieces in different points to bear upon the Dutch, should they venture to make the attempt. The wind was off shore; Heyne beat up against

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corruption of manners in this unhappy Captaincy, are acknowledged by the Portugueze. Bahia was better governed, because it was [page] 47

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twelve pieces of brass cannon, were destined for Pernambuco; Duarte de Albuquerque the Lord of the Captaincy, went with them: two hundred men in two vessels, with an equal number of guns, were for Paraiba, and eight hundred for Bahia. The fleet was ordered 18 The manner in which Brito Freire mentions this report, shows how generally it was believed. He says, Creyo, que s da malicia nasceu esta murmura am, mas como foi tam publica, os veneraveis respeitos da Historia me obrigaram a escrevella

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garrison consisted of sixty men, and they had just been reinforced with twice that number from Port dos Affogados. This place the Dutch attempted next, but perceiving a show of greater resistance than they expected, they coasted on half a league, thinking to land in a creek which ran some way inland. It so happened that a party of fifteen musqueteers were passing along, escorting a considerable sum of money sent by the merchants of Bahia to their correspondents here, to be laid out in sugar, such being

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exertion; the garrison then relaxed in their defence, being influenced by a deserter from Bahia, and a prisoner who was at large within the walls. With these men Calabar made his bargain, and they sold the place. Three caravels fell into the conquerors hand. On the following day five hundred men arrived from Paraiba, and had the mortification to behold Dutch colours flying upon the strongest fortress in Brazil. Fidelity of an Indian Chief. B. Freire. 316 21. An Indian called Jagoarari by his

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CHAP. XV. 1633. The Dutch make allies among the savages. Brite Freire. 522 4. But the Dutch also found allies among the natives, and the Portugueze suffered tenfold more injury than they inflicted by the Indians. Nine years ago Baldwin Henrik had taken some young natives from Bahia da Trai am to Holland; they were carefully educated for political missionaries, and five of them at different times were sent to the Janduis, a clan of Tapuyas, dwelling in the interior, and more barbarous than any

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that the garrison at Pontal had been weakened when this attack was made, and he in his turn as ineffectually attempted the town. Two hundred men arrived from Bahia; trifling as this reinforcement was, it was difficult to find provisions for them, nor had they either pay or cloathing, but what the General advanced from his own property. Never were colonies more cruelly neglected by their Government. An hundred and thirty men reached Paraiba about the same time from Lisbon; they brought tidings that

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Lagoas. B. Freire. 657. Do. 648. 669. Cast. Lus. 3. 104. Mathias razed the fortifications of Porto Calvo, and buried in the woods the guns which he had taken there. He then effected his march to the Lagoas, and there the emigrants dispersed, each going whither he thought best, some to Rio de Janeiro, the greater number to Bahia. The wreck of the Portugueze force now collected at the Lagoas, consisted of four hundred soldiers, besides Indians; it was determined to fortify the Southern settlement

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CHAP. XVI. 1636. Brite Fretre. 707 14. and to Hozes, that if the Spanish fleet when it left Bahia, would run along the coast, a great blow might probably be struck now that the enemy's force was divided. This advice was approved by every body, but it was not followed; Hozes pleaded his orders, and nothing was done. Porto Calvo reoccupied by the Portugueze. Cruelty of the Dutch. Bagnuolo advanced to Porto Calvo, where eighteen hundred men were now collected, and from thence ravaged the country

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Recife. It was of little avail to know his danger, when he had no means of providing against it. The ports of the Lagoas were dangerous for any except small vessels, and were also so well watched that it was no longer thought advisable to introduce supplies there. For this reason two caravels which were now sent out with stores put into Bahia, and their cargo was with great difficulty conveyed by land to Porto Calvo, While this trifling and insufficient succour was all that he received, the West

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CHAP. XVI. 1637. treated himself, had it been his fortune to have been made prisoner. Karel Nassau, the Count's nephew, was killed during the siege, a man of real eminence and promise. Bagnuolo abandons the Lagoas. B. Freire. 775 8. Bagnuolo had still a force of twelve hundred men besides Indians. The town of Madanella at the Lagoas was well adapted for defence, and well situated for receiving succours from Bahia or from Europe; but the General had lost all confidence in his men, and they with

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plunder at advantage. The terms offered to the Portugueze were these; full and entire liberty of conscience; their Churches to be kept in repair by the State; but they were to receive no Visitor from Bahia, nor were any new monks to be admitted so long as there were enough living for the ceremonies of religion. They were to be subject to the Dutch laws, and to the same taxes as the Dutch; and two days in the week were set apart by the Supreme Council for dispensing justice to them. They might

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been named St. Christovam, but was thus called after the river on which it stood. It was built four leagues from the sea, and contained about a hundred houses, with four hundred stables for cattle, a mother church, a house of Misericordia, and two convents. The bar admitted none but small vessels. The Captaincy of which this was the capital, extended five and forty leagues, being separated from Bahia on the South by the river Tapicuru, and by the St. Francisco from Pernambuco on the North. It

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. 822 4. Lichthart meantime had been sent to do what mischief he could in the neighbourhood of Bahia, for Nassau had fixed his eyes upon the capital of Brazil, and hoped to prepare the way for winning it by distressing it for food. Having committed much havoc in the bay of Camamu, the admiral was driven on by the wind as far as Ilheos, which he attacked, but was repulsed by the inhabitants1. The Dutch were now invited to turn their arms in a different direction: the native tribes of Seara applied to

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Fort of Montserrate, with six guns, was given up without resistance, and that of St. Bartholomew also, though defended by ten pieces of artillery, and garrisoned with seventy men. The capture of this important station gave Nassau an open communication with his fleet, and the people of Bahia began to believe, that whatever he attempted would prove successful. Pedro da Sylva resigns the command to Bagnuolo. To add to the danger of the city, there was a want of subordination among the troops. The

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return into his own lands. Glad would they have been to purchase the friendship of so active and terrible an enemy; the messengers were dispatched with presents and a favourable reply, but Cameram was in his heart attached to a cause which he had served so long and so bravely, and before they returned his resentment had given way. Eight hundred Tapuyas, resenting in like manner the treatment which they received from the General, left Bahia. But the opportunity occurred in vain, and in vain did

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inferior force from effecting any thing: it had the advantage in every action as far as mere fighting, but it was out-man uvred, and its purpose totally baffled. The weather now became such that the Governor gave up all hopes of beating back to Bahia at that season, and utterly abandoned the enterprize for which such preparations had been made. Bagnuolo attempted and effected his return by sea: so difficult, however, was this deemed, that it was thought better to land the main military force

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, were found filled with sugar, for want of any other food. Barbalho, however, with little other loss than fatigue occasioned, reached Bahia in safety5. 5 Barl us (P. 183) says, he put his own sick to death, which is as false as it appear incredible, though the Dutchman, while he states, excuses it, dura necessitatis ac militi lege! Every man indeed was left where he dropt, and they whom the enemy found, received no quarter. In this last and wonderful retreat, says Vieyra, where no quarter was

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reply; he re-embarked in the Dutch vessel, fell down seven or eight leagues below the city, to the Bahia do Sul, and landing in the Isle from whence the Bay derives its name, took up his quarters there, and dedicated them to St. Pedro de Alcantara. From thence he dispatched letters to his brother Joam Velho, urging him to come with all speed, that they might jointly take vengeance upon the people of Belem; and this brother, who when proceeding to the defence of that city, had spent two months upon

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was represented by Teixeira to his men as something, which added to the safe voyage of those very stores in a defenceless bark from Bahia to Belem, ought to be regarded, if not as absolutely miraculous, certainly as an evident proof of the protection of Heaven. He had with him sixty Portugueze and two hundred Indians. Pedro Maciel and his brother, with their fugitives, when they met the supplies, could not be persuaded to turn back and rejoin their former comrades; this handful of men, however

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troops from Para had deserted him, led away by their infamous Captains, and their desertion had drawn off from him some even of his own people. One supply of stores from Bahia was all that he had received; it was indeed all that Antonio Telles da Silva, the Governor of Brazil, could send him; and from Portugal, whither he had sent information of his proceedings, little was to be hoped, engrossed as the King was, by the cares and dangers of defending his newly-recovered throne. Some effort however

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CHAP. XIX. 1644. by no means rashly to provoke the Governor of Bahia. Their provinces were exposed to his vengeance, he could send in troops to lay them waste, or with a word let the savages loose. Neither could the Portugueze who were now under their dominion endure to see him treated with disrespect: they were a docile people when well treated, but stubborn whenever they felt themselves wronged; and a sense of worthy pride affected them more than the desire of riches. There were persons who

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hospitals. Priests were to be imprisoned if they entered the conquered provinces without a safe conduct; and they who chose to reside there were required to take the oath of fidelity, and not to receive ordination from the Bishop of Bahia. The Portugueze were forbidden to acknowledge the authority of any priest or prelate not resident among them, or to receive his suffragan, or send money for his use. They were irritated also by a measure of severity which had been fully provoked. A little before the

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CHAP. XX. 1645. Vidal was at Recife, preparing to embark for his return, four Portugueze marauders, who had been apprehended near Porto Calvo, were brought in; it was immediately said that they would be put to death, upon which Vidal and Fr. Manoel do Salvador went to the Council to intercede for them. These men, they said, were deserters from Bahia, and the fittest mode of proceeding would be to deliver them to Vidal, that he might take them back to St. Salvador; where they would be punished

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therefore all invited to an entertainment, and at the conclusion of the feast he told them for what purpose they had been there assembled. He was resolved, he said, to effect the deliverance of Pernambuco, or to perish in the attempt. During many years he had been preparing for this great enterprize. The Governor of Bahia, knowing and approving of his design had sent him sixty soldiers, most of whom were experienced officers, under a brave and distinguished leader. Camaram and Henrique Diaz were on

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distinguished among his countrymen, which both courtesy and inclination would otherwise have alike required: and he would not do it now, lest it might give occasion for any doubt of his loyalty in the Dutch Government, who were so greatly beholden to him for the example which he had afforded of fidelity. Cardozo added, that he wrote this letter as the only mark of respect which he could pay to Joam Fernandes, informing him that he was about to return to Bahia, lest those [page] 7

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Fernandes. Val. Luc. p. 160. He had long been laying up stores for this great enterprize. As President of many religious fraternities, he had ventured openly to purchase considerable quantities of gunpowder upon the pretext of using it for fireworks upon the different saints' days; and he had procured other quantities through the interior from Bahia. All this was carefully concealed in the woods, where in like manner he had made deposits of pulse, grain, fish, and meat, both salted and smoked

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which the oldest persons had never remembered in Brazil. The Council knew that these troops were expected; but having charged their commander at Seregipe to advise them of the movements in that quarter, they were answered that Camaram was gone to keep his Easter at Bahia, and that the men were employed in cultivating the ground. This information tended for some time to encourage them in that belief of security which they willingly indulged. They were thus deceived by the conduct of the Carijo

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CHAP. XX. 1645. Val. Luc. p. 172. Nieuhoff, p. 42 4. Cast. Lus. 5. 61. Bahia were in the woods, they never succeeded by any search in detecting their hiding-place, so well had Joam Fernandes and his faithful agents concealed them. Advices, however, at length arrived, which awakened them to a full sense of the danger; from the S. Francisco they were informed that Camaram and Diaz had past the river, and from the Lagoas that some of their party had ventured into the houses there to procure

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CHAP. XX. 1645. but it would end in banishment. Well would it be if they could find their way to Bahia at last, ... the object which Joam Fernandes perhaps had in view for himself from the beginning: this would be the best chance that could betide them, for in Pernambuco they had no quarter to expect. Many persons who were sincere in the cause lent ear too readily to these insidious suggestions. Where so much was sacrificed as well as risqued, anxiety naturally produced a state of feverish

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Soares Moreno, were now embarked at Bahia in eight ships; the naval command was given to Jeronymo Serram da Payva. The homeward-bound fleet of thirty-seven ships, which had assembled in the bay, under Salvador Correa de Sa Benavides, was to accompany them to Tamandare; there the troops were to be landed, and Payva proceed to Recife with letters for the Council, wherein the Governor General informed them, that in fulfilment of his promise he had sent two officers of unquestionable conduct to

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CHAP. XXI. 1645. fenceless, and then to massacre them. The young men gathered round him, seized and sunk three vessels which were lying there laden for Recife, and hearing that these troops from Bahia had landed in the vicinity, hastened to put themselves under their protection. As soon as their leader saw the two Camp Masters, he called upon them in the name of God and the King to deliver the Pernambucans from the yoke against which they were struggling; and urged them to march without delay

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Fernandes had remained there seven days upon the scene of action, to bury the dead and heal the wounded. On the seventh day he was informed that the troops from Bahia were landed, upon which he set forth to meet them. The inhabitants of Garassu and Goyana being threatened by the Dutch in Itamaraca, sent to him soliciting succour, and Antonio Cavalcanti requested that he might be employed upon this service. Cavalcanti was the man whom notwithstanding the intended connection between their families

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we can at no time forget, and which are at all times calling upon us for retribution! We have now opportunity in our hand, example before our eyes, and fortune on our side. What therefore have we now to do as Patriots and as Portugueze, but to offer up our lives for the service of God and of our country? If any among us be of a different mind, let him return to Bahia! Vidal had foreseen, or perhaps concerted this: the speech was received with acclamations, as he expected: and the declaration of

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Portugueze, not knowing that Nazareth was in possession of their countrymen, remained in an open bay. There Lichthart found them, hoisted the red flag, and attacked them. His force was greatly superior, and the advantage of skill, as well as of confidence and numbers, was on his side. One of the Portugueze stood out to sea in time, made her way through the Dutch, and reached Bahia; two were abandoned and set on fire; other two ran aground, 2 Raphael de Jesus calls this the most infamous treachery that

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overboard, of whom some saved themselves by swimming, and others were fished4 up with bullets and stones fastened to their necks and legs. When the news reached Bahia, the Governor issued an edict, forbidding any person to put on mourning for those who had perished in the treacherous affair at Tamandare, and promising before God and man that he would exert all the power of the state to take vengeance for, what he called, so abominable a treason. Inmurrection in Goyana, While these things were

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CHAP. XXI. 1645. Nieuhoff, p. 95. Cast. Lus. 6, 116 24. Val. Luc. 268. fortified the church, and there they were preparing to capitulate, when the Portugueze, by their rapacity and cruelty, were deprived of the victory which they had at this time actually achieved. The troops from Bahia fell to plundering, an example which was eagerly followed by Hoogstraten's regiment. Cardozo, at the commencement of the assault, had given orders to put the Indians to the sword; these men, knowing they had no

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Recife were discovered, ... for like true Dutchmen, they had provided themselves with Dutch cheese, Dutch butter, and Dutch herrings; things no otherwise procurable than by a direct intercourse with the city. Orders were expedited to disarm all those who had been detached to different stations, and to send them and their families to the Camp; they were then marched to Bahia, under good escort, and in different parties, there to be disposed of as the Governor [page] 15

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CHAP. XXI. 1645. Cast. Lus. 6. 143. Nieuhoff, p. 8. four hundred Dutch landed in the Bahia do Trai am, and marched, under cover of the night, to surprize them in the sugarworks: finding the place abandoned, they traced the Portugueze to their new post, and attacked them there; but to such disadvantage, that they were repulsed with considerable loss, and fain to retreat to Fort Keulen. Nieuhoff, p. 98. Here, however, the enemy were superior in numbers to the patriots, and they derived great