Ferdinando, Virginia.--He has discovered the infinite riches of St. John
(Porto Rico?) and Hispaniola by dwelling on the islands five weeks. He
thinks that if the Queen finds herself burdened with the King of Spain,
to attempt them would be most honourable, feasible and profitable. He
exhorts him not to refuse this good opportunity of rendering so great a
service to the Church of Christ. The strength of the Spaniards doth
altogether grow from the mines of her treasure. Extract, C.S.P. Colon.,
1574-1660.]

[Footnote 39: Scelle, _op. cit._, ii. p. xiii.]

[Footnote 40: Scelle, _op. cit._, i. p. ix.]

[Footnote 41: 1611, February 28. Sir Thos. Roe to Salisbury. Port
d'Espaigne, Trinidad.--He has seen more of the coast from the River
Amazon to the Orinoco than any other Englishman alive. The Spaniards
here are proud and insolent, yet needy and weak, their force is
reputation, their safety is opinion. The Spaniards treat the English
worse than Moors. The government is lazy and has more skill in planting
and selling tobacco than in erecting colonies and marching armies.
Extract, C.S.P. Colon., 1574-1660. (Roe was sent by Prince Henry upon a
voyage of discovery to the Indies.)]

[Footnote 42: "An historical account of the rise and growth of the West
India Colonies." By Dalby Thomas, Lond., 1690. (Harl. Miscell., 1808,
ii. 357.)]

[Footnote 43: Oviedo: Historia general de las Indias, lib. xix. cap.
xiii.; Coleccion de documentos ... de ultramar, tom. iv. p. 57
(deposition of the Spanish captain at the Isle of Mona); Pacheco, etc.:
Coleccion de documentos ... de las posesiones espanoles en America y
Oceania, tom. xl. p. 305 (cross-examination of witnesses by officers of
the Royal Audiencia in San Domingo just after the visit of the English
ship to that place); English Historical Review, XX. p. 115.

The ship is identified with the "Samson" dispatched by Henry VIII. in
1527 "with divers cunning men to seek strange regions," which sailed
from the Thames on 20th May in company with the "Mary of Guildford," was
lost by her consort in a storm on the night of 1st July, and was
believed to have foundered with all on board. (Ibid.)]

[Footnote 44: Hakluyt, _ed._ 1600, iii. p. 700; Froude, _op. cit._,
viii. p. 427.]

[Footnote 45: Scelle., _op. cit._, i. pp. 123-25, 139-61.]

[Footnote 46: Colecc. de doc. ... de ultramar. tom. vi. p. 15.]

[Footnote 47: Froude, _op. cit._, viii. pp. 470-72.]

[Footnote 48: Corbett: Drake a