The only
addition De Castro would agree to was to promise the French a supply of
cattle for food, fifteen days being allowed to collect the ransom.
Trouin, knowing well that he had no time to waste, accepted the terms, and
none too soon, for shortly afterwards a strong body of reinforcements, led
by an able general, entered the Portuguese camp. They came too late, the
treaty had been made, and the new general felt bound in honor to make it
good. So the ransom was paid, and on the 4th of November the triumphant
French set sail, their ships deep laden with the rich plunder of the
Brazilian capital and the gold of the governor's ransom.
The return home was not attended with the success of the earlier part of
the expedition. Trouin had left Bahia to be visited and plundered on his
return, but when he came near it the weather was so stormy that he was
obliged to abandon this part of his plan. The storms followed the fleet on
its way across the seas, and rose to such a height that two of his ships
went to the bottom, carrying down twelve hundred men.
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