these two brothers, who received their traini,g in expeditions of discovery.

]3ut they were only the two first among that galaxy of explorers and discoverers who created the English navy and saved England. They were the first, but their compeers I)rake and liawkyns were perhaps the greatest as commanders in war and as administrators in time of peace. John, the sou of that famous old Villiam Hawkyns of the Iirazil voyages, was born in 153t2, and in his youth made divers voyages to the Canary Islands, where he obtained much infonation respecting the trade of the West Indies. lie heard, among other things, that there was , great demand for nep'oes at St. Domingo and in the Spanish lIain, and that they could easily be obtained in Gui,lea. His plan was approved by several London capitalists, as well as by lIr. /3enjamin Gonson, the Treasurer of the Navy, who became the father-in-law of the young adventurer, probably before he sailed.

John Hawkyns was thirty years of age in 156:], when he received command of three ships, the Soloto-, of 19,0 tons, the Sxdlox, of 100 tons, and the small barque Joas. The orders he gave to his sailors were :--" Serve God daily; love one another; preserve yotu' victuals; beware of fire; and keep good company." Proceeding to Sierra Leone, he got on board, partly by force and partly by other means, as many as three hundred neo-oes, besides other merchandise. Crossing the Atlantic, he visited the ports of Isabela, Puerto de Plata, and lIonte Christi, on the north coast of the island of Santo Domingo. He disposed of all his ne'oes, and received in exchauge so valuable a cargo that he returned home in September, 1563, with much profit, both to himself and -to the merchant adventurers who fitted out the expedition. But Hakluyt was only able to get but a brief account of the first XVest Indian voyage of John Hawlyns.

The story of the second voyage of John Hawkyns is well told by John Sparke the younger, who was on board one of the ships as a volmteer. On the 18th of October, 1564, four vessels, named the Jesus of Liibeck, of 700 tons, the Solonions, of 140 tons, and the Tiger and Swatflow of 50 and 30 tons respectively, sailed from Plymouth under the command of Hawkyns, who proceeded, as on the previous voyage, to the Coast of Africa, and in January, 1565, made sail from Sierra Leone for the West Indies with a cargo of slaves. After touching at I)ominica and other islands, Hawkyns anchored off /3urburata on the coast of Venezuela. Here he was