dared the extent of the Pacifick Ocean, and the ſecond circumnavigators of the globe.
By the war between Elizabeth and Philip, the wealth of America became lawful prize, and thoſe who were leſs afraid of danger than of poverty, ſuppoſed that riches might eaſily be obtained by plundering the Spaniards. Nothing is difficult when gain and honour unite their influence; the ſpirit and vigour of theſe expeditions enlarged our views of the new world, and made us firſt acquainted with its remoter coaſts.
In the fatal voyage of Cavendiſh (1592) Captain Davis, who, being ſent out as his aſſociate, was afterwards parted from him or deſerted him, as he was driven by violence of weather about the Straits of Magellan, is ſuppoſed to have been the firſt who ſaw the lands now called Falkland’s Iſlands, but his diſtreſs permitted him not to make
