^hap.XXIV, during the Reign of Qgeen Elizabeth,

1§88. written to the Governour of Manilla,which discovered his whole Design, wasfound in his Trunk. The Day beforetheir Departure from Capul, the Admi-ral exacted aTribute of Provisions, from; the Caciques of that and a Hundred I-flands more; But, after they had made asolemn Promise to stand by him, at allTimes, against the Spaniards, he return’dthe Value of their Tribute.

The four and twentieth,they set Sail,and pasted the Streight between Pana-ma and Negro-IJland . The eighth otFebruary, they saw the I stand of Batocbi-na. The fourteenth, they fell in witheleven or twelve small flat 1 stands, nearthe Moluccos. The first of March, hav-ing pasted the Streights of Java Majorand Minor,they anchored under theSouthWestParts of the former,and on the 12 thsome of the King’s Canoes coming tothem laden with all Sorts of Provisions,tl'J double they trafficked with them- The 16 th^Qod h they failed away for the Cape of Goodj °P e - Hope, which they made the sixteenth ofat May, and on the ninth of June arrivedeena >?at St. Helena . Here they anchored,

and having taken in all Necessaries, setSail on the twentieth for England. Thenine and twentieth of August they hadSight of the Istand of Flores, and theninth of September, after a terribleej a rrh'e Storm, which carried away Part ol theirin 0l nj|y- Sails, they arrived at Plymouth.

The very Day Cavendish arrived, hewrote the following Letter, to the LordHunfdon, Lord Chamberlain, and oneof Her Majesty’s most Honourable Pri-vy Council.

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, Right Honourable, &V.

** /4 S Your Favours heretofore

d ^ Huns- /a " save been most greatly° n ' extended towards me, so

" I humbly desire a Continuance there-" of: And tho’there be nothing in me" to deserve it, yet the utmost of my“ Services shall not be wanting, when-" ever it shall please Your Honour to" dispose of me. I most humbly desire" Your Honour, to acquaint Her Ma-" jesty with the Intention I had to serve" Her, in the Performance of this Voy-“ age: And, as it has pleased Gon to" give Her the Victory over Part of“ Her Enemies, so I hope e’er long to" see Her overthrow them all: For" the Places of their Wealth, whereby“ they have maintained and made theirWars, are now perfectly discovered:

" And, if it please Her Majesty, with" a very small Power, she may take" the Spoil of them all. it has pleased“ the Almighty to, suffer rue to circum-" navigate the whole Globe of the" World; entrin-gin at the Streight of“ Magellan , and returning by the Cape“ of Good Hope. In which Voyage, I" have either discovered or brought" certain Intelligence of all the rich" Places of the World, that ever were" known or discovered by anjChrifliar.“ I navigated along the Coasts of Chili," Peru, and Nueva Efpanna, where I" made great Spoils. 1 burnt and funknineteen Sail of Ships, small and<f great. All the Villages and Townsm that ever I landed at, I burnt and" spoiled j And had 1 not been disco-" vered upon the Coast, I had taken" great Quantities of Treasure. The“ most profitable Prize to me was a" great Ship of the King’s, which 1“ took at California, coming from the" Philippines , being one of the richest" of Merchandize, that ever pass’d" those Seas, as appeared by the King’s" Register, and the Merchants Ac-" counts; For it amounted to the Va-" lueof****.*, to be fold in Mexico." Which Goods (my Ships being able" to contain but a very small Part of" them) 1 was obliged to set on Fire." From the Cape ot' California, which" is the uttermost Part of Nueva Efpan-" na, I navigated to the Islands of the" Philippines, bordering upon the Coasts" oh China-, of which Country I have" brought such Intelligence, as has not“ yet been heard of in these Parts. The" Stateliness and Riches of which Coun-" try, I fear to make Report of, lest" I should not be credited : For if I" had not sufficiently known the incom-" parable Wealth of that Country, I" mould have been as incredulous there-" of, as others will be that have not" had the like Experience. I failed" along the Islands of the Moluccos," where I was. civilly entertained by" some of the Heathen People, and" where our Country-men may trade as“ freely as th q Portuguese, if they will" themselves. From thence I passed“■ by the Cape of Good Hope, and found" out, in the Way Homeward, the 1-" stand of St. Helena, where the Por-“ tuguefe are used to refresh themselves;" And from that Island God hath suffer-" ed me to return to England. All“ which Services, with myself, I hum-

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