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 dared the extent of the Pacifick Ocean, and the econd circumnavigators of the globe.

the war between Elizabeth and Philip, the wealth of America became lawful prize, and thoe who were les afraid of danger than of poverty, uppoed that riches might eaily be obtained by plundering the Spaniards. Nothing is difficult when gain and honour unite their influence; the pirit and vigour of thee expeditions enlarged our views of the new world, and made us firt acquainted with its remoter coats.

the fatal voyage of Cavendih (1592) Captain Davis, who, being ent out as his aociate, was afterwards parted from him or deerted him, as he was driven by violence of weather about the Straits of Magellan, is uppoed to have been the firt who aw the lands now called Falkland’s Ilands, but his ditres permitted him not to make any