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THE CAPTIVITY OF HANS STADE

named Artokoslio;[1] to him we delivered the prisoners, and also discharged sundry goods, which they kept there. We transacted our matters in this harbour, wishing to sail further, where we expected to load.

Caput III.

How the savages of the place Prannenbucke[2] had become rebellious,
and wanted to destroy a settlement of the Portuguese.

It so happened that the savages of the place had become rebellious against the Portuguese; they had not been so before, but they now began to be so on account of the Portuguese having enslaved them. We were, therefore, begged for God's sake, by the governor of the land, to occupy the settlement called Garasu,[3] five miles from the harbour of Marin, where we lay, and which the savages had dared attempt to take. The inhabitants of the settlement Marin could not go to help them, for they conjectured that the savages would also set upon them.

We therefore went to the aid of those in Garasu with forty men from our ship, sailing thither in a small craft. The settlement lay on an arm of the sea, which extended

  1. ↑ Elsewhere called Artokoelio and in De Bry, Artus Coelho (Southey). The captain general of Pernambuco was then Duarte Coelho. Hans Stade abounds in these corruptions, like his countryman Schmidel, the great authority further south.
  2. ↑ The Prannenbucke of chapter 3, and the Bramenbuche of part ii, chapter 2—B and P being Teutonically confounded. The French make it Fernambouc, and some have derived it from Fernam (Fernando) and bourg. The etymology is Paraná-mbok or-mbo "sea-arm", and it was picturesquely and accurately so called by the Indians from the gap in the natural wall which here fringes the coast, hence the Portuguese "Mar Furado" (Noticia de Brazil, p. 24). Pernambuco, in the province of that name, lies in S. lat. 8 deg. 4 min. 7 sec., and in W. long. (G.) 34 deg. 52 min. 44 sec.
  3. ↑ The name of the factory is Iguaraçu, from "Igara," a canoe, and "assu," big.
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