A.D. 

 1596. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



To conclude, your lordship hath payd for the dis- 

 coverie and search, both in your owne person, and since 

 by mee. You have framed it, and moulded it readie 

 for her Majestic, to set on her scale. If either envie 

 or ignorance, or other devise frustrate the rest, the 

 good which shall growe to our enemies, and the losse 

 which will come to her Majestic and this kingdome, 

 will after a fewe yeeres shewe it selfe. Wee have more 

 people, more shippes, and better meanes, and yet doe 

 nothing. The Spanish king hath had so sweete a taste 

 of the riches thereof, as notwithstanding that hee is 

 lorde of so many empires and kingdomes already, not- 

 withstanding his enterprises of France and Flanders, 

 notwithstanding that hee attended this yeere a home 

 invasion : yet hee sent twentie eight saile to Trinidad, 



A Table of the names of the Rivers, Nations, 



second voyage 



[III. 688.] 



