THE SEA. 



CHAPTER I. 



THE HISTORY OF SHIPS AND SHIPPING 

 INTERESTS (continued). 



Extent of the Subject The First American Colony Hostilities 

 with the Indians 117 Settlers Missing Raleigh's Search for 

 El Dorado Little or no Gold discovered 2,000 Spaniards 

 engage in another Search Disastrous results Dutch Rivalry 

 with the English Establishment of two American Trading Com- 

 paniesOf the East India Company Their first Great Ship 

 Enormous Profits of the Venture A Digression Officers of the Com- 

 pany in Modern Times Their Grand Perquisites Another Naval 

 Hero Monson a Captain at Eighteen His appreciation of Stratagem 

 An Eleven Hours' hand-to-hand Contest Out of Water at Sea 

 Monson two years a Galley Slave Treachery of the Earl of Cumber- 

 land The Cadiz Expedition Cutting out a Treasure Ship Prize 

 worth 200,000 James I. and his Great Ship Monson as Guardian 

 of the Narrow Seas After the British Pirates One of their Haunts 

 A Novel Scheme Monson as a Pirate himself Meeting of the 

 Sham and Real Pirates Capture of a Number Frightened into 

 Penitence Another caught by a ruse. 



1VTANY and vast are the subjects which naturally inter- 



twine themselves with the history of the sea ! Great 



voyages have not been organised for the mere discovery of 



so much salt water except as a means to an end and the 



