England, and after the vessel had been partially looted, at 4,000. The Madre de Dios, which was of lt;00 tollS' hurthen, was bronght to England. Most of the profits of the ventm'e were confiscated by the queen, in spite of the fact that only two of her ships had been concerned, and that of these the snlaller alone had had a hand in the taking of the carrack. The adventuring mcrchants were, in consequence, greatly discontented. Don Alonso de Bazan, who had been directed bv his sovereign to proceed direct to Flores to await the coming of the carracks, had disobeyed his instructions, and had sailed instead, ;ith twenty-three galleons, to St. Michael's, for which he had a consignlnent of guns, intending to go on to Flores later. Vhen he heard of what had occurred, he pursued the English resolutely enough for a hundred leagues, httt failing to catch them, he vas, upon his return to Spain, and in spite of his great previous services, broken for his disobedience and negligence. Ctmaberland's fifth expedition, which had thus united with Burgh, consisted of five vessels, none of which belonged to the navy. The earl did not accompany it, but gtve the colnnland to Captain Nortoll.

Other expeditions of 1599, were Christopher Newport's privateering voyage, in the course of which Ocoa, and two other towns in what is now Haiti, were sacked, Puerto Caballos, in the ,ay of ]-Iondttras, was plundered, and several ships were taken or destroyed; and William King's voyage to the Gulf of lIcxico. This was not less successful than Newport's venture, though King's operations were confined to the sea. The 4miry, of London, Thomas Vhite master, on her way home from a voyage to I3arbary, fell in with two Spanish vessels, both of which, after a very stuhborn fight, he took. They proved to be laden with quicksilver, wine, missals, and indulgences, and were extremely valuable prizes2 The year 1593 witnessed the setting out of Richard Hawkyns's expedition to the South Sea. The following year saw the inception of Lancaster and Venner's expedition to ]3razil, a and of Dudley's voyage to Trinidad. 4

Few purely naval eveuts occnrred iu 1593, the year of the Treaty of lIelun; but, in the course of it, the Earl of Culnbcrland went to se, in conllnand of his sixth privateering expedition, with

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