who had heen master to Sir Ilobert Dudley in his West Indian voyage, as vice-adlniral, and the Edward Bonaveature under James Lancaster as rear-admiral. The historians of the voyage were Edmund Barker. Lancaster's lieutenant. and a mate named Henry May.

The expedition sailed from Plymouth on the 10th of April, 1591, and, touching at the Canary Islands, the ships nmde the hest of their way to the Cape of Good Hope. Near the line the English explorers fm'tunately captured a Portuguese ctn'avel laden with wine, oil, and olives. 1)uring the long detention by equatorial cahns the scurvy hroke out, there were many deaths, and the crews were in a very weakly state when the ships reached Table Bay. There oxen and sheep were obtained from the natives, and the sailors began to recover their strength. It was resolved to send the 3Iercb.nt P, oyal back to England with all the weakly men, and to proceed with two strong crews in two ships. Ac- cordingly, Captains l/a3anond and Lancaster, in the Penelope and Edward Bomtrenture, proceeded on the voyage. On the 14th of September they encountered a great storm, during which the I'cncl(qw parted company, nor was she ever heard of again.

The Edward Bonaventure, after losing the master and several men through the treachery of the Comoro Islanders, arrived at Zanzibar on the 7th of November. Lancaster remained there until February, lY.}2, opening frieudly relations with the native merchants, who were disabused of the stories tohl by the I%rtumse to the disadvantage of the strangers. ()n letving Zanzibar com'se was shaped for ('ape Comorin, and then for the Nicobar Islands; but the first port iu which the ship was anchored was Penaug, on the coast of ,Malacca, where Lancaster remained until Aumt. He lost his master, one of the merchants, and twenty-six men during his stay at that place; trod when he put to sea there were not more than twenty-two men fit for duty. Having captured some Portuguese ships laden with pepper and rice, and cruised for some months on the coast of MMacca, Lancaster anchored at Point de Galle. There the crcw declared the 5' must return to England, and the homeward voyage was commenced on the 8th of 1)ecember, 1593. After long rest at St. Helena, Lancaster took the ship in the direction of the Brazilian coast. and thence to the West Indies, at last finding himself off the island of Mona, between St. Domingo :red Puerto Rico, whence, ;ffter receiving provisions