Lancaster said: "Nay, we will yet abide God's leisure, to see ; hat mercy lie will show us." The sea became SlllOOth, the rudder was tcmporatqly fixed. and there w;m uo small rcjoiciug hcn the Islaud of St. lielena hove in sight. lit.re the rudder was pr,perly hung. and plcntil'ul supplies were obtained.

()n the 11th of September the sailors of the East India ('ompany's flint venture arrived at the I)owns, aud completed this nem�,rablc voyage. Great credit is due to the mtmtcr, Sanderbole, (ff thc tit'trot, for the w;ty in which he stuck hy his rudderless consort when she was drifting helplessly ;tbout in the stoany sea to tim south of the ('ape. Even when ('apt;in Lancastcr g;vc hiln writt.u trders to make the best of his way home, he disohcycd, and continued to kc.p near the D'tgo, ready with all the help he could gie, until they both gt safe to St. clen: "for the master was u honest and ; good man, nd loved the gcner;tl cll, nd ws lothe to le;ve him in so great distress."

The gall;rot commandcr of the first voyage received the hononr of knighthood and became Sir James Lancaster. lie afterwards scrved as a dircctr of the East India Company in London. where his great experience w;m invaluahle iu preparing subscqueut ventures, md iu thc general conduct of the Compauy's affairs. He died in .June, 1618, unmtrqed and childless, leaving large legales to the grammar-school, and to the charities, of his n;ttive town of Basing- stoke. efore the Company's second voy;tge commenced. the great queen had passed away, and the glorious roll f Elizabethan

tdvcnttu'e aud discovery was completed.

It is indced t; roll of sm2msiug splendour :--In the far north. the "5Ieta Incoguita" and l);;vis Strait, as f;a' as 72 1' N.. discovere. d. and the intercourse with ussia, by the White Sea, strengthened and organiscd; the Caspit;n Se; navigatcd and okhar; visit�,d; a great fishing tradc cst;blished on the Newfoundl;md banks, ht,sidt,s a considerable seal fishery; Virginia discovered. and a sure foundation laid for the future thirteen c.louics which sh(uld brm the United States; the charter granted to the Turkey (omp;tny. and ]ritish trade placed on a solid footing in the ev:mt; lucrative trade on thc coast of Guine and the West Indies and Spanish Mai k,l,t alivc by lngllsh cruirs; the Orinoco explored as far as the n,)uth t' ihe K;troni: thc worhl twice circummvigatt, d; the Falkland Islands, Cape ltorn, and .ls(I mi]es of thc west coast of Ntrth hint, fica discovcrcd; the Cape of (food ][�pc first round�.d hv an l.Sn,lish