WRITCSH SHIP OF WAR OP 1578 FROM TAPESTRY IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



POLICY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH THOMAS CAVENDISH HIS FIRST VOYAGE — EX- 

 PLOITS UPON THE AFRICAN AND BRAZILIAN COASTS PORT DESIRE PORT 



FAMINE BATTLES WITH THE ARAUCANIANS CAPTURE OF PAITA ROBBERY 



OF A CHURCH REPEATED ACTS OF BRIGANDAGE CAPTURE OF THE SANTA 



ANNA THE RETURN VOYAGE CAVENDISH'S ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION— 



THE SPANISH ARMADA PREPARATIONS IN ENGLAND THE CONFLICT TOTAL 



ROUT OF THE INVINCIBLES PROCESSION IN COMMEMORATION OF THE EVENT. 



Queen Elizabeth had found it to her advantage to en- 

 courage displays of public spirit in private individuals, and to 

 excite the nobles and persons of fortune who were ambitious 

 of distinction, as well as the indigent in search of employment, 

 to hazard, the one their wealth, the other their lives, in the 

 national service. She thus derived benefit from a class of peo- 

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