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Thomas Cavendish, ..... Frontispiece 



Thomas Cavendish or Candish, the second Englishman 

 to sail round the world, was born at Gumston Hall, 

 in Trimley Saint Martin Parish, Suffolk, about 1555. 

 Little is known of his early years. His first voyage 

 was in a ship of his own in Sir Richard Grenville*s 

 voyage to Virginia made for Sir Walter Raleigh 

 in 1585 (Hakluyt, V^ol. VIII., page 310). Imme- 

 diately after his return he began the preparation 

 for his own voyage of circumnavigation. A ftill 

 account of this * admirable and prosperous voyage, 

 written by Master Francis Pretty, lately of Ey in 

 SuiFolke, a Gentleman employed in the same action,' 

 is given at page 290. On his return home. Caven- 

 dish was received at Court at Greenwich, and seems 

 to have spent * his fortune in gallantrj- and following 

 the Court.' An account of his last voyage, begun 

 on 26th August, 1 591, up to the time when the 

 ships were dispersed, and the subsequent sufferings 

 of Captain John Davis, the Arctic Navigator, and 

 the crew of the * Desire,' will be found at page 

 389. After losing the * Desire' and the Pinnace 

 Cavendish with the ' Leicester Galeon ' and * Roe- 

 buck' made for Brazil and tried to land at 

 Santos and Espirito Santo. Through disobedience 

 to his orders, and through the treacher)' of his men, 

 the Portuguese and the Indians beat him off with 



