THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Sickness of Jacques Carder's crew 

 in Holy Cross Port (1535) viii. 

 246; in France Roy fort (1542) 

 286; of Drake's crew (1585) x. 

 109; in Sir Amyas de Preston's 

 fleet (1595) X. 225; on the Desire 

 (1588) XI. 337- 



Siculus, see Diodorus. 



Siculus, Marinseus, ' Chronicle of 

 Spain ' by, vii. 160. 



Sidmouth, Devon, ships from, in 

 Edward III.'s fleet, i. 297. 



Sidney, Colonel, his regiment at the 

 taking of Puente de Burgos (1589) 

 VI. 492; march of, to Lisbon, 

 497> 500; returns to England, 

 510. 



Sidney, Henry, speech to the Lon- 

 don merchants by, 11. 242. 



Sidney, Sir Henry, lord-deputy of 

 Ireland (1568), and the North- 

 west passage, vii. 179 ; Sir Hum- 

 phrey Gilbert with, in Ireland, xii. 



25- 



Sidney, Sir Philip, death of, at Zut- 

 phen (1586) XII. 41 ; and Hakluyt, 

 75 ; dedication of Hakluyt to, 79. 



Sidon, Richard Wrag and (1594) vi. 

 107 ; description of, 108. 



Sidonia, Sir Loys de, Grand Master 

 of Rhodes 's envoy to the Pope 

 (1522) V. 16. 



Sidrach and India, vii. 18. 



Siege of Rhodes, by Solyman (1522) 

 V. 1-80; of Famagusta (1571) 

 118-152 ; of Pernambuco, by Cap- 

 tain Lancaster (1595) xi. 47 ff. 



Siena, Captain Gourgues in a battle 

 at, against the Spanish, ix. iii. 



Sierra Leone, William Towerson at 

 (1556) VI. 212, (1557) 230; trade 

 between Mina and, 252 ; Sir John 

 Hawkins at (1564) 265; discovered 

 by Alouis de Cadomosta (1455) 

 VIII. 127 ; Sir John Hawkins at 

 (1568) IX. 446, (1562) X. 8, (1565) 23; 

 Job Hartop at, ix. 447 ; Sir Francis 

 Drake at (1580) xi. 132; Edward 

 Fenton at (1582) 174, 177; Robert 

 Withrington at (1586)205 ; Thomas 

 Cavendish at (1586) 291, 293, 367; 

 anchorage at, 371 ; Hawkins and 

 the capture of negroes at (1562) 

 XII. 47 ; Cape, latitude of, xi. 348 ; 



soundings, 352 ; River, Thomas 

 Gregory privileged to traflfiic on 

 the (1592) VII. 102. 



Sierra Nevada, in America, vii. 170. 



Sierva, Diego, proposed as gover- 

 nor of Brazil by Feliciano Cieza 

 (1597) XI. 69. 



Sifridus a Feuchtuvang, twelfth 

 master of the Dutch knights, 11. 

 6. 



Sigala, Turkish Admiral, and Ed- 

 ward Barton (1593) vi. 102. 



Sigean Promontory, see Cape Janis- 

 sary. 



Sighelm, bishop of Sherborne (883) 

 Indian voyage of, i. Ixiii., iv. 279, 

 280. 



Sigismund, Emperor, 11. 114; 

 makes peace between the Dutch 

 knights and Poland, 8; and 

 Calais, 137. 



Sigismund II., King of Poland, letter 

 to Queen Elizabeth, 11. 485-487; 

 married to the daughter of Ferdi- 

 nando, iii. 100; on Russia, 135. 



Signals of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 

 fleet (1583) VIII. 44; pre-arranged 

 by Sir John Hawkins for his fleet 

 (1564) X. 10. 



Signet, private, of the Sophi of Per- 

 sia, description of (1568) iii. 149. 



Signior, Grand, see Solyman. 



Sigra in Metelin, v. 250, 251. 



Sigvardus, ninth bishop of Schalholt, 

 "in Iceland (1239) iv. 55, 154. 



Silar, petrifying river, iv. 37, 132. 



Silauria, William Harborne at (1583) 

 V. 251. 



Silesden, William, of Lynn, and 

 Prussian pirates, 11. 69. 



Silesia, invaded by Tartars, 11. 186; 

 Boleslav, Duke of, i. 159. 



Silitari Company, in the Hungarian- 

 Turkish war (1594) VI. 104. 



Siliveri, Henry Austell at (1585) v. 



.324- 

 Silk, raw, in Persia, 11. 404, iii. 147, 

 231, 234; white, in Tripoli, vi. 2; 

 found in China, 26, 355 ; raw, taken 

 by English in captured ships, vii. 

 59, 60, 116; found in Mexico, ix. 

 358; found in Guiana, x. 427, 458; 

 duty on, in Edward I.'s charter, i. 

 337; use of, in England, in. 99; 



406 



