[36] The Dutch armament, commanded by Admiral Hervey Zonk, consisting of sixty-four vessels, of various sizes, and eight thousand men, landed, on the 15th of February, 1630, on the beach of Pau Amarello, three leagues north of Ollinda, by the direction of Judea Antonio Dias, who had resided many years in the country and acquired a large fortune, with which he established himself at Amsterdam. In 1654 the Dutch evacuated the captaincy.
[37] A capibara, the animal from which this river takes its name, is now in Exeter Change.
[38] Ollinda, although the head of a comarca, being commonly considered, with Recife, to constitute the city of Pernambuco, they will be described together.
[39] A Brazilian term for the Indian.
Erected
under
the Illustrious Government
of the
President and Council
in the year 1652.
[41] Some of these people are also called certanejos, inhabitants of the certams, or interior.
[42] I have been informed, since my return to England, that a clergyman had arrived at Pernambuco.
[43] Great River of the North; as there is Rio Grande do Sul, (Great River of the South,) and which must occasion some little confusion, both being called Rio Grande: it would be better to designate this St. Roque, the cape being even a more conspicuous object than the river.
[44] The Spaniards, from whom the French took this portion of territory, always recognized the river Oayapoek and the Vincent Pinson as the same river; and near its mouth a marble stone was erected, by order of Charles V. to serve as a limit between his conquests and those of the Portuguese.