took and plundered the island of Lanzarote, and then pushed cross to lominic, where he lnded on I:y :rd, and remained till June 1st, keeping, meanwhile, on good terms with the ntives. From Dominica he siled to the Virgin Islands, where he lnded, mustered all his men, and umounced his intention of ttcking Puerto Rico. He arrived off San Juan in that island on June 6th, landed thousand men, nd speedily mde himself mster of the place, with but sm loss, though he was at first repulsed. His intention was to make the town bse for his future operations, but it proved so extremely mhealthy to the troops on shore, of whom more than hlf died, that he decided to quit it. This he did on August 14th, leaving, hoxvever, the better part of his sqndron, under Sir John Berkeley, his second-in-commnd, to rmnge for the ransom of the island. Before his departure, the erl cpttu'ed cmvcl from the island of Margarita, off the coast of Venezuela, she cme unsuapectingly into harbour, and a ship from Angola. In the first was pearl worth one thousand ducats, in the second was crgo of negroes.

Ctunberland, with his division, mde the best of his wy to the Azores, where he hoped to intercept the Spanish Mexico Fleet, or t least some carrcks; but he reached Flores only to learn that a few days earlier twenty-nine large Spanish ships had weighed thence. At Flores he was, in course of time, rejoined by Sir John Berkeley, though not until both divisions of the squadron had suffered severely iu storm. The tuffted force sailed gin on September 16th, nd in the following month reched England without further dventure. e The expedition, which mtt have been a vew costly one, does not seem to have mteridly increased the carl's estate, but it ws of undoubted benefit to England, seeing that it greatly annoyed the Spaniards, prevented that year's sailing of their regular carrocks for the Indies, nd caused the postponement of the rettu'n of the Plate Fleet from erica. It would probably hve been more successful had the erl tken greater pains to keep secret his objects and his movements.

Two non-nvl events of considerable importuce occurred during 1598, nd, since they intimately affected nval policy, deserve mention here. One ws the conclusion by England of new and

I [[el were taken a French and a Spanish vcsl, which were added to the quadron.

l'urcla, iv. 1150; inson's Trats; Hrris' Cdl. i.