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, and all, except some two hundred, broke away and escaped. Those which were saved were sent to the Camp-Masters, and the news of the victory was suffered to travel at their pace. Orders from Bahia to burn the sugar-canes. While these things were going on in the north, ill-advised orders came from the Governor General to the Camp-Masters in the Varzea, commanding them to burn all the sugar-canes in Pernambuco. The motive was the old one of distressing the Dutch, and inducing them to abandon their

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returned from his circuit. Shortly afterwards there arrived two Jesuits, whom Antonio Telles had sent with positive orders from the King, that Vidal and Martim Soares should return with all their troops to Bahia, and that Pernambuco should be peaceably relinquished to the Dutch. These instructions were so peremptory that the Camp-Masters were at first confounded, and knew not how to reply. It was intolerable to think of abandoning all the advantages they had gained, and yielding up the country to an

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second ship was taken; the third put back, without having been engaged: and the heroie courage which was displayed by those who did their duty did not cover the disgrace which their more numerous comrades that day brought upon the Portugueze navy. Money raised for Brazil by Vieyra the Jesuit. The danger to which Bahia had been exposed was foreseen, and the King of Portugal forewarned of it by Antonio Vieyra the Jesuit, a man extraordinary, not in eloquence alone, but in all things. Te Deum had

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from his parents, turned traitor to his country, and renounced his religion. The Portugueze rewarded him, as policy required; but it is a curious indication how low their sense of honour had fallen, or how completely bigotry had perverted it, that they should have conferred upon such a subject the Order of Christ! The insurgents request succours from Bahia, but in vain. To men less disinterested, or of less devoted patriotism than Joam Fernandes and Vidal, Barreto, under such circumstances, would

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Virgin. It is remarkable, that often as he was in action, he scarcely ever received a wound. They buried him in the Church of the Camp, with the highest funeral honours. He was succeeded in his post by his cousin D. Diogo Pinheiro Camaram, a brave man, who had obtained the Order of Santiago for his services. Schoppe lays waste the Reconcave. The Dutch were still masters of the sea, and as soon as the fleet from Bahia had sailed for Portugal, Schoppe made a second expedition to the Bay, laid waste the

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extraordinary memorial was delivered by Dr. Pedro Fernandes Monteyro, the Procurador da Fazenda Real. Considering, he said, the great ability of the ministers employed in this negociation, it was certain that no better terms could have been obtained; but there were heavy objections on the score of religion, of honour, and of feeling. Self-preservation would make the Dutch seek all means of distressing Bahia; being masters of Seregipe they would withhold food, and possessing Angola they would withhold

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terms of peace as are proffered were the worse alternative. Holland cannot and will not observe them: she must for her own security extend her conquests. A single slave sent from Bahia, is able by firing the canes to destroy a whole year's harvest; would the Dutch then suffer an enemy so near? and if they expected that through their war with us Castille would effect the conquest of Portugal, an event of all others the most dangerous to Holland, to strengthen themselves against that contingency

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, the insurgents would be cut off from Bahia, [page] 22

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CHAP. XXII. 1648. O Papel Forte, MSS. culties, the consequences, the impossibilities! Only two blows are required to deprive us of India and of Brazil; one which should take Goa, one which should take Bahia; .. both so practicable, so easy, so certain! The bulwark of peace would secure both. Your Majesty's predecessors knew this, and by keeping peace with all the world they were masters of three parts of it. Let us keep all our resources for the struggle with Castille, in which alone we have

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hundred and fifty Indians had retired toward Seara. A Dutch colonel, by name Nicolaas, saved some of the distant garrisons; he got out of Recife upon a raft, and carried the news to Itamaraca, Paraiba, and the Potengi: at the first of these places four hundred men surrendered; but when the Portugueze arrived at Paraiba, they found that the enemy had embarked, with all their artillery and stores. Pedro Jaques and Brito Freire now proceeded with the convoy to Bahia, bearing with them the tidings of

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, made their complaint to the governor of that city, but soon found that if he had the disposition to give them redress he had not the power. They proceeded to Rio de Janeiro, and demanded an order for the deliverance of their neophytes, and for the protection of the Reductions. Here they were referred to the Governor General, as the only person who had authority for such measures; so they then went to Bahia. It was during Oliveira's government: he heard them with apparent interest, and appointed

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CHAP. XXVI. 1653. See Vol. 1. p. 219. Priests, was the character of what there were; they either came there as banished men for their misconduct, or to seek a living which they could not get elsewhere; and they were virtually under no jurisdiction; for they were in the Bishop of Brazil's diocese, who resided at Bahia, five hundred leagues off, with the Dutch between, and no means of communication except through Portugal. To a sincere and pious Catholic, such as Joam IV., this evil would appear

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obstinacy; they governed in their own name for a few months, then substituted Joam Correa, the son of Salvador, in his father's place, as an easy step toward the submission which they now perceived to be inevitable. Orders ere long arrived for arresting the Procurador do Povo and the officers of the seditious Chamber, and sending them to Lisbon; and the Governor shortly afterwards returned, to the great joy of the well-disposed inhabitants. 1665. Carmelites established at Bahia. Barreto held the

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powerful for an individual who had only his own merits and his past services to support him. Barreto listened to his accusers, deprived him of his government, ordered Cardozo and another Camp-Master to govern in his stead, and sent troops from Bahia to arrest him, and a Dezembargador to sit in judgement upon him. Matters however were not carried to this extremity, for Vidal, finding that resistance could only end in ruin, made some required submission, and was allowed to retain his Government till its

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CHAP. XXVIII. ance as a military or naval station, and the attack came from a more tremendous enemy. Vol. 1, p. 40. The Guerens infest Bahia and the adjoining provinces. Vol. 1, p. 287. 1660. The neighbouring country had been found in possession of the Tupiniquins, .. a people ill-requited for the friendly disposition which they had shown toward the Portugueze. Such of them as escaped the tyranny of their European friends were driven out by the Guerens, a branch of the Aymores, who occupied

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their Mamaluco masters, were little less intrepid, and in activity, ferocity, and endurance, nothing inferior. The Ordinan a, or local-militia of the district, joined them when they landed; and they went through the Sertoens westward to the River S. Francisco, and northward to the boundaries of Bahia, killing and capturing the Savages, destroying all their settlements, and opening roads, so as to make a communication with that Captaincy through the interior. The prisoners were sent to the Capital

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Lisbon. The ship was wrecked on the coast of Peniche, and the specimens and dispatches, with most of the crew, were lost: but Joam Furtado escaped: his oral representations were deemed sufficient at court, and every thing necessary for working the mines was immediately shipped for Bahia. Before the vessel arrived the discoverer died in his own country; and it appeared that no person was acquainted with his secret, nor with any clue which might lead to the spot. The expedition however was not

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Ravasco, to be thrown into the common prison, and not permitted to communicate with any person. Ravasco is said to have possessed the highest character, and the most distinguished abilities, being, it is affirmed, the ablest man either in Brazil or in the Mother Country. He was brother to Vieyra, who after some sufferings and many vicissitudes of fortune, had lately returned to Brazil to pass the remainder of his life at Bahia. Vieyra was now between seventy and eighty years of age, nearly blind

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commonly spoken than the Tupi, but that latterly a Jesuit was much valued at Bahia if he could speak the native language; it had fallen into disuse in proportion as the natives were consumed. Sermoens, t. 8, p. 520, 521. [page] 64

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CHAP. XXX. and ungenial climate. Manoel Ferreira de Camara. Mem. Econom. da Academic. T. 1. p. 303. 308. their way to Bahia, a distance of more than thirty leagues, without entering the open sea. But on the other hand, heavy dews and almost incessant rain, render it an unhealthy and unpleasant country. There is scarcely any distinction of seasons; the trees bear flowers and fruit in all stages of its progress at the same time, for this cause, that the temperature of winter is never cold enough

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credible this and every other abomination connected with slavery. Dress and fashions of the Portugueze. P. Gaspar Affonso Hist. Trag. Marit. 2, 335. Pyrard, 205. Fleckno. Rennefort, 287. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the reduced Indians and the slaves appeared without the slightest clothing in the streets of Bahia. In the course of a few years the Brazilians corrected this indecency among their slaves, and drest them in a sort of frock, or made them at least cover their loins. The dress

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; and here they seem particularly absurd: for on such occasions it was deemed meritorious in the husband to36 murder his wife, and there was nothing to deter 36 Frezier says that more than thirty women had been thus murdered at Bahia in one year. (531.) There can be but little doubt that where adultery was an admitted justification for murder, it would frequently be made the pretext. Such an opinion, indeed, would place every woman's life at the mercy of her husband. But when Frezier accuses the

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ceding these claims 9 on the part of France, and on the part of Spain resigning all title to Nova Colonia and the Isles of S. Gabriel. Some changes took place about this time in the judicial and municipal establishments of Brazil. It was deemed indecorous that the Chamber of Bahia should only have Juizes Ordinarios of the Red Wand belonging to it, like the other Camaras, seeing that the same privileges as those of the cities of Porto and Lisbon had long since been extended to it; and that the

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CHAP. XXXI. 1696. Vieyra Cartas. 2. 476. Death of Vieyra. Rocha Pitta. 8. 54. 57. A. de Barros. 4. 234. 271. Vieyra describes Brazil as presenting a lively image of the mother country. .. It resembled it, he says, in preparations for war, without men or money; in full harvests of vice, without reformation; in unbounded luxury without capital; and in all other contradictions of the human mind. The genial climate of Bahia had relieved Vieyra from all maladies, except the incurable one of old age

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marks of depopulation were plainly visible thirty years afterwards. Rocha Pitta. 8. 111 112. Government attempts to prevent this emigration, but in vain. Alarmed at the rapid progress of this unforeseen evil, the Government hoped to check it at once by a decisive interposition: it therefore prohibited the passage of slaves from Bahia to the mines, and enacted that all who were apprehended in making the attempt should be confiscated, and shared between the Treasury and the Informer. Troops were