The V O Y A G E S of Book I. 
44 fufFer me to circumpafs all the whole Globe of the 
44 World, entering in at the Streight of Magellan , and 
44 returning by the Cape de Buena Efperanca. In which 
44 Voyage, I have either difcovered, or brought certain 
44 Intelligence of, all the rich Places of the World, that 
45 ever were known or difcovered by any Chriftian. I 
44 navigated along the Coaft of Chili , Peru , and Nueva 
44 Efpanna , where I made great Spoils ; I burnt and funk 
44 Nineteen Sail of Ships, fmall and great : All the Vil- 
44 iages and Towns that ever I landed at I burnt and fpoiled ; 
44 and, had I not been difcovered upon the Coaft, I had 
44 taken great Quantity of Treafure. The Matter of moft 
44 Profit unto me, was a great Ship of the King’s, which 
44 I took at California , which Ship came from the Philip- 
44 pines , being one of the richeft for Merchandize that ever 
44 paHed thofe Seas, as the King’s Regifter, Accounts, and 
64 Merchants did fhew ; for it did amount in Value to * * * 
44 in Mexico to be fold ; which Goods (Tor that my Ships 
44 were not able to contain the leaft Part of them ) I was 
44 enforced to let on Fire. From the Cape of California , 
44 being the uppermoft Part of all Nueva. Efpanna , I na- 
44 vigated to the Iflands of Philippines , hard upon the Coaft 
44 of China , of which Country I have brought fuch Intel- 
44 ligence, as hath not been heard of in thefe Parts : The 
44 Statelineis and Riches of which Country I fear to make 
44 Report of, left I fliould not be credited •, for, if I had 
44 not known fufficiently the incomparable Wealth of that 
44 Country, I fhould have been as incredulous thereof, as 
44 others will be, that have not had the like Experience. 
44 1 failed along the Iflands of Malaccas , where, among 
44 fome of the Heathen People, I was well intreated, where 
44 our Countrymen may have Trade as freely as the Portu- 
44 gals, if they will themfelves. From thence I pafled by 
44 the Cape of Buena Efperanca, and found out, by the Way 
44 homeward, the Ifland of St. Helena , where th tPortugals 
44 ufed to relieve themfelves ; and from that Ifland God 
44 hath fuffered me to return into England : All which Ser- 
•V vices, with myfelf, I humbly proftrate at her Majefty’s 
44 Feet, defiring the Almighty long to continue her Reign 
44 among us ; for, at this Day, fhe is the moft famous 
« , and vidorious Prince that liveth in the World. Thus, 
44 humbly defiring Pardon for my Tedioufnefs, I leave 
44 your Lordfliip to the Tuition of the Almighty. 
Tour Honour's ?noft Humble to command , 
Plymouth, this fh of THOMAS CaNDISH. 
September 1588. 
27. There were many Circumftances in this Voyage, 
befides the wonderful Felicity of it, that deferve to be conft- 
dered : As, for Inftance, the paffing a fecond time into the 
South Seas, not only after it was known, that the Spaniards 
were exceffively alarmed by the former Pafiage of SirFrancis 
Brake , but alfo that they had received Succours from 
Spain , and had a&ually fortified themfelves ftrongly in the 
South Seas. The nice Search he made into, and the exad 
Defcription he has given us of the S freights of Magellan , 
are very noble Proofs of his Skill and Induftry, and of his 
Defire, that Pofterity might reap the Benefit of his Labours. 
The Attack of the Acapulco Ship, confidering the fmall 
Force that Captain Candijh had with him, was a noble In- 
ftance of true Englifh Bravery, which was juftly rewarded 
by the Queen with the Honour of Knighthood. His Ac- 
count of the Philippines , and his Defcriptions of feveral 
Iflands in the Eajl Indies , are very clear and curious, and 
at that time muft have been very ufeful ; but particularly 
his M) and Defcription of China , which gave great Lights 
at that time of Day. We may add to all this, the Care he 
took in the Inftrudion of his Seamen, many of whom after- 
wards diftinguiftied themfelves, by navigating other Veffels 
in the fame" ftupendous Courfe, and thereby filling all the 
known World with the Fame and Reputation of Englifh 
Seamen. It is not, therefore, at all iurprifmg, that we 
find the beft Judges, both in our own and other Nations, 
bellowing very high Praifes upon this worthy Gentleman, 
who fhewed, in the whole Conduct of his Voyage, the 
Courage and Difcretion of a great Commander, with all 
the Skill and Diligence of an able Seaman, of both which 
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he has left us the ftrongeft Teftxmohies in his accurate Ac- 
counts of his Expeditions. 
28. The Wealth he brought from fo fuccefsful a. 
Voyage, muft have been very confiderable. One of our 
antient Writers fays, it was fufficient to have purchafed 
a fair Earldom , which is a general Expreffion, the Mean- 
ing of which cannot be determined with any Certainty : 
But whatever the Sum was, which he acquired with fo 
much Hazard, and with fo great Honour, it is certain, 
that he did not make fo prudent a Ufe of his good Fortune 
as might have been expedited ; for in the Space of Three 
Years time the beft Part of it was fperit, and the reft of it 
he determined to lay out in a Second Expedition. We need 
the lefs wonder at this, if we confider what the Writers of 
thofe Times tell us with refped to his great Generality, 
and the prodigious Expence he was at in procuring and 
maintaining fuch People as he thought might be ufeful to 
him in his naval Expeditions, upon which his Mind was 
continually bent. Such Things require the Revenues of a 
Prince; and, as he looked upon this Voyage round the 
World as an Introdudion only to his future Undertakings, 
we may eafily conceive, that what the World took for 
Extravagance, might appear to him in the Light only of 
neceffary Disburfements, which, inftead of leftening or run- 
ning out, he propofed fhould have laid the Foundations of 
a more extenftve Fortune. Neither was this, when all Cir- 
cumftances are confidered, a rafh or improbable Expectation 5- 
fince there were many Examples in that Reign of very 
great Wealth obtained by this very Method by which he 
hoped to increafe his Eftate : Befides, it very clearly ap- 
pears by his Will, that he did not die in Debt, but left 
behind him very confiderable Effeds, notwithftanding ail 
the Expences to which he was put, and the many Mis- 
fortunes he encountered in his Second Expedition to the 
South Seas. Add to all this, that, from the happy Suc- 
cefs of his former Voyage, and the fuperior Strength with 
which he undertook the next, he had very good Reafon to 
believe, that the Profits of this Enterprize would have fully 
compenfated the Charges to which it put him, and have 
enabled him to have fpent the Remainder of his Days in 
Quiet, in cafe he had returned to his native Country as 
happily as he did before. But without fpending more 
Time in fuch kind of Refiedions, which, however, are 
not unnecefiary, confidering the Character and Reputation 
of the Perfon they concern, let us now proceed to an Ac- 
count of that unfortunate Voyage, which iliallbe the more 
concife, becaufe we fhall have an Opportunity of entering 
into many Particulars of it in another Place, where we 
fhall give the Reader a large Account of the curious Tra- 
vels, and Iurprifmg Adventures, of Mr. Antony Knivet , 
who was the Companion of Sir Thomas Candijh in moft of 
his Misfortunes, and who left the World a very copious, 
and diftind Account of that memorable Voyage. 
29. The Ships which he fitted out at his own Expence 
for this Voyage, were the Galleon Leicejler , which was 
Admiral, the Roebuck , Vice-admiral, the Befire , the 
Dainty, and the Black Pinnace with which Squadron he 
failed from Plymouth , Auguft 6. 1591. On November 29. 
they fell in with the Coaft of Brafil , where they took the 
Town of Santos , and burnt that of St. Vincent \ and then 
continued their Voyage for the Streights of Magellan , 
meeting thenceforward with nothing but Storms, Difap- 
pointments, and Misfortunes, various Accounts of which 
are ftill preferved ; but the moft copious is that of Mr. Can- 
dijh himfelf, addreffed to Sir Trijiram Gorges , whom he 
made foie Executor of his laft Will ; wherein he affirms, 
the Mifcarriage happened thus : 44 The running away of 
44 the Villain Davis (fays he) was the Death of me, and 
44 Decay of 'the whole Adion, and his only Treachery in 
44 running from me, the utter Ruin of all.” He com- 
plains alio of Mutinies ; and that, by South-weft and 
Weft South-weft Winds, he was driven from Shore Four 
hundred Leagues, and from 50° to 40° : That he was 
taken with Winter and Storms in the Streights, and fuch 
Frofts and Snows in May, as he never faw the like fo 
that, in Seven or Eight Days, Forty died, and Seventy Tok- 
ened. Davis in the Defire, and his Pinnace, left him in 
the Latitude of 4 7 0 ; the Roebuck kept with him to Thir- 
ty-fix ; 
