coast of Br&zil. It w&s equipped undcr the auspices of the Earl of Leicester, and the queen co,tributed t;xo of her ships. But the i,mt,'uctions were a,nbiguous. The North-Vest Passage was to be discovered if it was to he found sonth of 4! N., hut the ships were not to he taken north of that pa,'ailcl; tht,y wcrc mt to pass through Magellan's Strait; yet they wc, t, visit the 5lluccas. The command was' give, to Captain ]".dwan'd Fenton, the com- pa,fion of Frobiscr i,a his Arctic voy;;ges. lie was on board the galleon Lcicesh, r, of 400 tons, with young -illism l lawkyns, . nephew of Sir Jflm, a,d 5It. Maddox, the chaplain and historian of the voyage. The other vessels were the Bomtccnttre, f 300 tons, cormhanded by Luke Vard, and the l.'ratwi.% of 40 tons, undcr Capt&in John 1)nike, with Villial,, M;trkham, wlt had been in the Elizabeth with Captain Vyntcr, ats master. There was also a pimmce. The expedition s:tilcd in 5I;ty, 15,n2. ami we,t to the coast of Guine&, anchoring at Sicrra Leone o,t the Illth of August. It wonld apptar, from the jour,ml of yetrag ltawkyns, that Fenton wtuted from a very early period to give up the wyage, and that he was only induced to procccd owing to the pntcsts tff his officers. (),a the 1st of November the ships crossed thc linc; and Fenton seems to have gone as far t;s :43' S. lJut he then tm',ed back, and anchored i, the Iay of St. Vi,cent, o, thc cast of Prazil.

At this time Don l'edro Sarmiento, with ind,,nitthle p;tticnce and perseverance, was strivi,g to induce the incerupt, tent conmandei' of the Spa,fish fleet to proceed to Magcllan's Strait, a,d land his cflonists. Once this i,capahle officer, whtsc namc w;ts Valdez, sailed to the entrance of the strait; but. on the excuse of bad weather, he retur,ed with the ships o ports on thc coast of Irazil. Fenttn was in the lay of St. Vincent when, on the fl3rd of December, 15 '), three f these Spanish ships arrived and opened fire at about ten o'clock at night. The action continued until noon next day. The English succeeded in si,king one of the Spanish ships, and then put to sea, with . loss of six killed and twenty wounded. After being ncarly a month off the coast, Fenton anchored in the mouth of the River Esplritu Santo, and obtained a small cargo of sugar, with which he stilcd home, arriving at Kinsale on the 14th of June, 1583. This was a mismanaged business, although Fe,ton afterwards did good service i, the defeat of the Spanish Armada. lie died at ])optford i, 1(]03.

The Francis parted company in gale before Fenton put into