with the commodities of the country at a place four leagues to the east of Lamina. His journal describes the people and the climate, and contains notes on the variation of the compass and on the native products, such as gold, elephants' teeth, dragons' blood, and cinnabar. He su%ested instructions for those who would make a voyage to Guinea. They should make a chart with the correct lati- tudes of places; learn what commodities belong to each port; what help may be depended upon from the natives; ascertain particulars respecting water-supply; and explore the country both along the coast and inland. The voyage of John Lock was followed, from 1555 to 1557, by three voyages seut to Guinea by a merchant of London, named Villiam Towerson, his sbips fighting the Portuguese successfull., and bringlug back o'old and ivory.

The meagre history which Hakluyt has thus presetwed, proves that there was an increasing spirit of enterprise among the merchants aud seamen of our principal seaports for at least a century before the formation of the great companies gave an additional and abiding impulse to maritime discovery. Nor was this spirit of adventure confined to those whose regular business it was to make trading ventre'es and to navigate distant seas. Young o'entlemen from inland counties, barristers from the Iuns of Corn't, and even a canon of St. Paul's, c;ne forwtrd as volunteem; while the policy of the Government was generally to give reasonable encouragement to these undertakiugs, by sharing in the ventures, by occasionally even fitting out expeditions, aud eventually by granting charters.

Young Edward VI. appears to have taken a personal interest in the advancement of the maritime prosperity of his country, and in' the science which is a necessary part of a seaman's education. During his reign Sebastiau, the son of John Cabot, returned to England, after having served the Spauish Governmeut for mauy years, been initiated into all the secrets of the hyh'ographic office at Seville, and been entrusted with the high position ot' Chief Pilot. He in fact deserted; and applic;tion was made for his surrender by the Emperor Charles V., which was refused because it was thought that his services would be useful to England. Sebastitm was very young at the time of the voyages bf Johu Cabot, and it is doubtful whether he accompanied his father. Vhen he retmaaed from Spain he was an old man, and he xv;;s welcomed as a learned costoographer, possessed of the secrets of the Spanish Government. In reality, he was a treacherous intriguer, disloyal to all his employers,'