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way from the East Indies, was driven into the Gulf of Paria ; 

 Whiddon went ' to seeke' her.* In his absence ' Berreo 

 sent a canoa abord the pinnace onely with Indians and 

 dogs, inviting the company to goe with them into the 

 wods to kil a deare, who like wise men in the absence 

 of their Captaine followed the Indians, but were no 

 sooner one harquebush shot from the shore, Berreo's 

 souldiers lying in ambush had them all, notwithstanding 

 that he had given his worde to Captaine Whiddon that 

 they should take water and wood safelie.' 



9. Sir John Burroughs is said to have 'surprised' a 

 town in Trinidad, in 1594. Sir William Monson, who 

 is the authority for the statement, gives no details. 



10. Sir Robert DuoLEVt ; being of a bold, adventu- 



* In 1593, the Edward Bonaventure, on her return from the East Indies, 

 called at Trinidad. Henry May, whose account of Captain James 

 Lancaster's voyage is preserved by Hakluyt, says : — 



In the moneth of June we arrived at the island of Trinidad in the 

 West Indies, hoping there to find refreshing ; but we could not get any, 

 by reason that the Spaniards had taken it. Here we were imbayed 

 between the island and the maine; and for want of victuals the company 

 would have forsaken the ship; whereupon the Captaine was inforcedto 

 sweare every man not to forsake the ship until we should see farther 

 occasion. Out of this bay called Boca de Dragone, it pleased God to 

 deliver us; from whence we direfted our course for the Isle of S.Juan de 

 Puerto Rico. 



t Sir Robert Dudley was Knighted at Cadiz in 1596, by the Earl of 

 Essex. He was a son of Queen Elizabeth's favourite, the Earl of Leices- 

 ter, and of Lady Sheffield, then a widow. Dudley appears to have 

 proved that his parents had been married before his birth : but after 

 his birth, they married others, as if their own marriage had never taken 

 place. By Leicester's will, Dudley became, in 1589, the owner of 

 Kenilworth, and other places. He married a sister of Thomas Caven- 

 dish, the circumnavigator. Of the singular career of Sir Robert, a very 

 interesting account is given in the XVIth Volume of the Dictionary of 

 National Biography. 



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