by the adventurers, who aplwopri;ed provisions sutticient to enable them to return to Enghmd. tlakluvt rode two hundred miles to obtain the particulars of this voyage from young 5fr. Butts; tnd to his indefatigable perseverauce we owe the preservation of records of this and other voyages, which ;vould otherwise have been lost. They may be taken ;.s ente,'prises typical of many long since forgotten.

The maritime euterprises of the days of Itenry VIII. were not confined to these northern wyages. Iakluyt tells us ho;v old 5It. Willialn Hawkyns of Plymouth, who was much esteemed for his wisdom, valour, and skill in sea cauoes, would not be coutented with short voyages along the kuown coasts of Europe. He fitted out a tall and goodly ship of 250 tons, called the Pole, of Plymouth, and made three long and once famous voyages to Brazil. which, in those days, was an enterprise of very' rare occurrence. ]His first voyage was in 1530, when he reached the Rio Cestos on the Grain Coast of Guiuea, and took iu elephants' teeth and other com- modities. Thence he continued his voyage to the coast of Brazil, where he behaved with such prudence and jud,qncnt that he not only formed friendships with the natives, but even induced one of the chiefs to come to I'hglmtl. These three voyages of �,'illiam Htwkyns ;;'ere menorable, and others followed iu his footsteps. Several wealthy merchants of Southampton sent ships to Brazil in 1540; and trade was carried ou with the ports of Barbary from London. But one of the first voyages to Guinea was disastrous, owing to the inexperience, and perhaps to the misconduct, of the commander. The Primrose and Lion left Portsmouth in August, 1558, and returned with the loss of the captain and of a hundred men, out of one hundred and forty men forming the crews of the two ships.

These Guinea voyages were indeed very perilous in those days. Their commanders needed to bc men of high qualifications--to be endowed with courage, patience, perseverance, zeal, and sympathy for their men. Long voyages, the ravages of scurvy, and had provisions had certaiuly to be faced, besides the usual perils of the sea, and a prohahle encounter with a superior force of Portuguese. This was the training of most of the great naval officers of the Elizabethan age; and such a man appears to have been Captain John Lock, who commanded a ricer of three ships for the Guinea voyage, titted out by merchants of London, in 1554. IIc exchanged his outward cargo