Note 36 — CHAP. XVII. PROVINCE OF PERNAMBUCO.
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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.