in the expedition of the Lord Deputy Gray, when he attacked the
Italian camp on _Dun-an-oir_, at Smerwick harbour in Kerry. After some
time the Italians yielded, but on what precise terms it is now
impossible to say, the accounts of the transaction are so various and
conflicting. Indeed, O'Daly says the English were the first to send a
flag of truce. Anyhow, the Italian garrison, which had come to aid the
Irish, fell into the power of the English, and here is Dr. Leland's
account of what followed:--"Wingfield was commissioned to disarm them,
and when this service was performed an English company was sent into the
fort. The Irish rebels found they were reserved for execution by martial
law. The Italian general and some of the officers were made prisoners of
war, but the garrison was butchered in cold blood; _nor is it without
pain that we find a service so horrid and detestable committed to Sir
Walter Raleigh_."

[2] The people of Quito said _papas_. The Spaniards corrupted this to
_battata_, and the Portuguese to the softer _batata_.

[3] Edwards (Life of Sir W. Raleigh. M'Millan, 1868), says Hooker is the
only contemporary writer who asserts that Raleigh sailed with this
expedition, and Edwards adds, "It is by no means certain that he did
so." But from the following entry in the State Papers of Elizabeth's
reign it appears quite certain that he did sail with it:--"The names of
all the ships, officers, and gentlemen, with the pieces of ordnance,
etc., _gone_ in the voyage with Sir Humfrey Gylberte,--Capt. Walter
Rauley, commanding the Falcon," &c--_State Papers (Domestic)_, Vol. 126,
No. 149, Nov. 18 & 19, 1578.

Mr. Edwards may not have met this entry, as he does not refer to it.

In spite of his many failures, Raleigh was, to the last, confident in
the final success of his scheme for colonizing America. After the
failure of nine expeditions, and on the ere of his fall, he said: "I
shall yet live to see it (America) an English nation." (Edwards.)

[4] Perhaps _Kartoffel_, one of the German names for potato, is a
corruption of this.

[5] Mr. Edwards says, I know not on what authority, that the land given
to Raleigh was about 12,000 acres. The grants are set forth plainly
enough in the following entries:--"The Queen, desirous to have the
Province of Munster, in the realm of Ireland, re-peopled and inhabited
with civil, loyal, and dutiful subjects, in consideration of the great
charge and trouble which Sir Walter R