. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. Chap. VII. U M ET^IC J. the Spanijh Seamen : Whereupon Ve Wy fent his Son to the Caftle Ceulen, making folemn Proteftations, that he was ready to lofe his Life and Fortune for the Nether* landers, in helping them to drive the Portuguese out of Brafile. Maurice alfo joyn'd two thoufand Brafilians, and Colonel Garjlman with fixty 2{etberlanders, to the Tapu- yans, that fo he might train them up in Martial Difcipline, whileft the Tapuyans Wives and Children were plac'd on the Ifland Tamarica. About the beginning of the Year 1640. Houte-been and Licbtbart brought a confiderable Fleet from the Netherlands to an Anchor at %eciffa, where a Confu- tation was held, whither thefc Ships might be fent to do moft Service : every one had an Eye on St. Salvador, not long fincc Storm'd in vain . but Maurice judg'd that they had not Forces enough to undertake fo grand a Defign,but thought it would be better to Land fome frefli Forces near St. Salvador, that there they might burn the Sugar-Mills, and deftroy all things they could find, in revenge of what the Enemy had done at Parayba. Whereupon Tourlon and Licbtbart fet Sail with twenty Ships, Mann'd with two thoufand five hundred Men, to the Inlet Todos los Santlos, where they burnt all the Portuguese Sugar-Mills, Houfes and Villages. nei- ther did their Swords fpare any alive but Women and Infants: Th
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