the ]3ay of St. Vincent; and reached the ltiver Plate. ere she was wrecked, but officers and crew succeeded in reacbiug the shore. They were kept among the Indians for tifteen naouths, when the officers appear to hve beeu givcu up to the Spanirds. Drake aud Markham were sent to Lima, but their fate is unknowu.

War was declared between Qucen Elizabeth and Philip II. in 1585, aud kom that time thcre could 1,e no further talk about

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piracy. A geulemau uamea Thomas Caveudish, of Trimley in Huffolk, had beeu for some time desirous of emulating the deeSs of Sir Francis Drake, aud iu 1586 he equipped an expedition consisting of three vessels, the Desire of 120 tous, thc Conent of 60 tons, ana he Huth Gallant of 40 tons. Mr. Francis Pretty, another Suffolk man, accompanied Cavendish and was he histori;m of the voyage. The tlcet touched a Sierra Leone, a San Sebastian in Brazil, and at I'or Desire on the coas of l'atagoni;. ('avertdish then entered