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And takesthem onBoard.

Tobacco firfibrought toEngland.

Drake re-turns to En-gland withhis Booty-

Cables. They lost, besides, in thisStorm many more Anchors, and a largeNumber of Boats and Pinnaces.

Sir Francis would have given themanother Ship; But this Accident com-ing on the Back of so many Hardships,which they had before undergone,daunted them, and put them upon ima-gining that Providence was averse totheir Designs: And now, having givenover, for that Year, the Expectationof their promised Supply, from Eng-land ', they consulted together, and a-greed to desire Sir Francis Drake, totake them along with him Home,which he did. They left the Coaston the eighteenth of June, and arrivedat Portsmouth, on the eight and twen-tieth of July.

Mr. Lane is said to have been thefirst Man who brought Tobacco intoEngland . This Weed, which has sincebeen so considerable a Part of the Re-venue of the Crown of England, hadit’s Name from the Island of Tobago,one of the Caribbee-Ui ands, where itgrows plentifully.

Most of our Historians fay; theNumber of these first Planters was verymuch decreased in Virginia ; But theAuthor of Drake Revived fays, theywere an Hundred and three in Num-ber when Sir Francis arrived there, ac-cording to which they must have lostbut five Persons.'

But to return from this Digression,

. thus ended Sir Francis Drake's Expedi-tion, the Booty taken from the Spaniardsbeing valued at threescore ThousandPounds, (the Author of the Columna Ro-Jlrata fays six Hundred ThousandPounds) besides two Hundred (Camdenfays two Hundred and forty) Pieces ofBrass and Iron Cannon ; But with theLoss of about seven Hundred and fiftyMen, who all, or most of them, diedof the Calenture. Of the Booty, theAdventurers had (as the Author ofDrake Revived fays) forty ThousandPounds, and the Ship’s Companies twen-ty Thousand, of which, upon a Repar-tition, each Share came to about sixtyPounds: But whether inclusive or ex-clusive of the Ransom of Carthagena, hedoes not observe.

The fame Author of Drake Revivedwho with Camden, reckons the Numberof Brass and Iron Cannon to have beenabout two Hundred and forty, fays, twoHundred and more of them were Brass,and were taken as follows.

In St. J ago, two or three and fifty 1^86.

I sl St. Domingo, about fourscore,mong whicn many were great Ordnanceas whole Cannon, Demi-Cannon, Cul-verins, and the like.

In Carthagena, sixty-three Pieces,most of the greater Sort.

In Fort St. Aus in, fourteen Pieces;

The Rest was Iron-Ordnance, of whichthe most was found at St. Domingo, andthe Rest at Carthagena.

The Loss to the Spaniards was, with-out Doubt, far greater, on all Hands,than the Booty was of Value to us:However, as this Expedition not onlyterrified but weakened them in thoseParts, it had in some Measure, it’sdesired End.

In this Voyage, Sir Francis Drake Drake ^was the first Englijhman, who landedNew-England, being Part of the Con- sffftinent which was discovered by Barlowand Amidas. He stay’d two or threeDays on the Coast, and traded with thePeople for what he wanted; Duringwhich Time one of the Indian Kingssubmitted to Qu,een Elizabeth.

Sir PVilliam Monfcn makes the fol-lowing Remarks on this Expedition: , .

" This Voyage ( fays he) of Sir Sir ShfFrancis Drake, being the first Un-tf dertaking on either Side, (for it en-<c sued immediately after the Arrest of‘ s our Ships and Goods in Spain ) I will(C ( continues he) deliver my Opinion ofit; And, with the Services done, ob-,f serve the Mistakes and Oversightscommitted, as a Warning to those" that shall read them, and to prevent" the like Errors hereafter*

“ One Impediment to the Voyage" was that to which the ill Success of" divers othprs, which followed after,

" is to be imputed, viz. the Want of" Victuals, and other Necessaries, fit" for so great an Expedition; For had" not the Fleet, by Chance, met witha Ship of Biscay, in her Return fromtc Newfoundland, laden with Fish,

" which relieved their Necessities, they" bad been reduced to great Extiemi-“ ty.

<s The Service performed in thist( Action, was, &c. (as we have fr ntC aboue.) This Fleet was the greatest" of any Nation but the Spaniards ,that had ever been seen in those Seas,

<c since the first Discovery of them -And if it had been as well consider-tc ed of, before their going from Home,