Original sentence: After a time, the Dutch decided to evacuate Olinda, burn it, and concentrate on Recife.Before the ten-year truce between Portugal and the Netherlands expired in 1621, Dutch traders had regularly called at ports in Portuguese Brazil, and, through these contacts, Calabar had, at Recife, managed to talk his way into a job working for the Dutch West Indies Company in the Netherlands
Edited sentence: After a time, the Dutch decided to evacuate Olinda, burn it, and concentrated on Recife.Before the ten-year truce between Portugal and the Netherlands expired in 1621, Dutch traders had regularly called at ports in Portuguese Brazil and through these contacts, Calabar had, at Recife, managed to talk his way into a job working for the Dutch West Indies Company in the Netherlands