THE VOYAGERS 



The three great Vice-Admirals who defeated the Armada 

 were now dead; for Frobisher had died in 1594, of a 

 wound received at the work of dislodging the Spaniards 



from the coast of Brittany. The Lord High Admiral, ^^^^^ 



^ ° yoyagers. 



Lord Charles Howard of Effingham, under whose 



command they had all served, led a great armament to 



Cadiz in the summer of 1596, seized the city, and 



inflicted enormous damage on the shipping in the 



harbour. He was created Earl of Nottingham, and 



lived on to an advanced old age. And how many more 



are there not, whose names are less famous, and whose 



deeds, recorded or unrecorded by Hakluyt, served to 



raise the name of their country .? John Oxenham, 



Drake's follower, the first Englishman who launched a 



boat on the Pacific ; Captain Thomas Fenner, one of 



three brothers, each of whom commanded a ship against 



the Armada ; Captain Edward Fenton, who explored 



the Arctic Seas, and harried the ships of Spain ; George 



Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, who made ten voyages 



in twelve years ; Sir William Monson, author of the 



Naval Tracts^ who began as a common sailor on board 



a merchantman, and rose to be an Admiral ; or James 



Lancaster, who in the years immediately after Hakluyt's 



publication opened a way for English commerce to the 



East ; — all these deserve celebration. And the sailors '^^^ 



, 111-1 -1 • 1 Elizabethan 



who manned the ships, who ate putrid penguins and mariners. 



drank bilge-water on strange seas, and who often, when 



their service to their country was rendered, pined in 



foreign prisons, or died by hundreds of starvation and 



cold and plague in the streets of the sea-ports of 



England, — they most pass without other memorial than 



the saying of the Lord High Admiral, ' God send us 



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