remain to learn the language, and that the 5' should take merchandise into the interior, so as to explore and collect information. A son of Tapiawari returned with Ralegh. The boats reached the sen by the Capaft mouth, and the explorers found the ships as they had left them, at Curiapan in Trinidad, and returned safely home.

In this ably conducted expedition, ,Sir Walter Italegh showed himself to possess all the qualifications of an explorer. He took great paius, before starting, to inform himself, from every available source, of all theft was known respecting the region he was about to explore. He equipped his expedition and selected his companions with great care, and n-ith reference to the work that had to be done. He took every precaution in sounding the different months of the Orinoco, in na;igating the river, and in his intercourse with the natives, that could suggest itself to a thoughtful leader. He was indefirtigable in the collection of all useful information. The result was the pnblication of an interesting narrative which is read with pleasure and instruction down to the present (lay. The map x-as not finished when the book was published in 1596, but it is in the British iMuseum, and has recently been reproduced.

The Guiana voyage of Sir Walter Ralegh led to many others in the direction both of the Orinoco and of the West Indi;;n Ishmds. In January, 159t;, Captain Laurence Keymis left Portland in the Darlig, of London, and again visited the Orinoco. He found that Sparrow had been captured by the Spaniards and taken to Curearia. In the same year Thomas ,Mash;un, in the pinnace ll-ette, went up the Esseqnibo.

The most romantic biography of all the Elizabethan worthies is that of Sir Robert Dudley, the repudiated heir of the Earl of Leicester. A gallant soldier, a scientific seaman, a gunner, an engineer, he was above all an enthusiastic explorer. He tells us that, "H;ving, ever since I couhl conceive of anything, been delighted with the discoveries of navigation, I fostered in myself titat disposition till I was of more years and better ability to tmder- tttke such a ln;tter." Yet he w;s only twenty-one when he sailed for the West Indies in command of an expedition consisting of the Bear, of 200 tons, the Bcar's 11'hclp, and two pinnaces, called the Frisl,'ig and the E, rwig. He ordered his lnaster, Abrahain Kendall, to steer for Trinidad, and, anchoring at Curiapan, he landed with an armed party, and marched through the woods. He x-ns joined

by a pinnace from Plymouth, cramhanded by Captain Popham, and