THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Expedition to 

 Lisbon. 



The last 

 Voyage of 

 Drake and 

 Hawkins. 



The Invincible Navy neither took any one barque of 

 ours, neither yet once offered to land ; but after they had 

 been well beaten and chased, made a perambulation about 

 the Northern seas, ennobling many coasts with wrecks of 

 mighty ships ; and so returned home with greater derision 

 than they set forth with expectation/ 



The repulse of the Armada gave Drake no rest. The 

 next year, in joint command with Sir John Norris, he 

 led the expedition to Lisbon. They failed in their main 

 purpose ; their losses were heavy, and their booty small. 

 'But the truth is,' says Camden, 'England reaped this 

 benefit by the voyage, that from this time forward she 

 feared nothing from Spain, but took greater heart and 

 courage against the Spaniards.' Drake fell into disgrace, 

 and was restored to favour only to share with Sir John 

 Hawkins the command of another expedition, their 

 second and last. In 1595, twenty-eight years after their 

 fateful adventure in slave- trading, they put out again for 

 the Indies with a fleet of twenty-seven sail, and strong 

 land-forces. Sir John Hawkins was now over seventy 

 years of age, burdened and saddened by the long cares 

 of administration ; and the differences of temper and 

 character between the two admirals had not been lessened 

 by time. Thomas Maynarde, who served in the expe- 

 dition, has left a vivid account of these differences.^ 

 Of Drake he says, — ' It may be his self-willed and 

 peremptory command was doubted, and that caused her 

 Majesty, as should seem, to join Sir John Hawkins 

 in equal commission, — a man old and wary, entering 

 into matters with so leaden a foot, that the other's meat 



^ Sir Francis Drake, His Voyage, 1^95 / ^J Thomas Maynarde. 

 Society, 1 849.) 



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