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CAVENDISH [CANDISH1, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1555?-1592), the third circumnavigator of the globe, was See also:born at Trimley St See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin, See also:Suffolk. On quitting Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Cambridge (without a degree), he almost ruined himself by his .extravagance as a courtier. To repair his See also:fortune he turned to maritime and colonial enterprise, and in 1585 accompanied See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Grenville to See also:America. Soon returning to See also:England, he undertook an elaborate See also:imitation of See also:Drake's See also:great voyage. On the 21st of See also:July 1586, he sailed from See also:Plymouth with 123 men in three vessels, only one of which (the " See also:Desire," of 140 tons) came See also:home. By way of Sierra Leone, the Cape Verde Islands and C. Frio in See also:Brazil, he coasted down to See also:Patagonia (where he discovered " See also:Port Desire," his only important contribution to knowledge), and passing through See also:Magellan's Straits, See also:fell upon the See also:Spanish settlements and See also:shipping on the See also:west See also:coast of See also:South and Central America and of See also:Mexico. Among his prizes were nineteen vessels of See also:worth, and especially the treasure-galleon, the " Great St See also:Anne," which he captured off Cape St See also:Lucas, the See also:southern extremity of See also:California (See also:November 14, 1587). After this success he struck across the Pacific for home; touched at the Ladrones, Philippines, See also:Moluccas and See also:Java; rounded the Cape 4f See also:Good See also:Hope; and arrived again at Plymouth (See also:September 9-10, 1588), having circumnavigated the globe in two years and fifty days. It is said that his sailors were clothed in See also:silk, his sails were See also:damask, and his See also:top-See also:mast covered with See also:cloth of See also:gold. Yet by 1591 he was again in difficulties, and planned a fresh See also:American and Pacific venture. See also:John See also:Davis (q.v.) accompanied him, bait the voyage (undertaken with five vessels) was an utter failure,much of the See also:fault lying with Cavendish himself, who falsely accused Davis, with his last breath, of deserting him (May 20, 1592). He died and was buried at See also:sea, on the way home, in the summer of 1592.
See See also:Hakluyt's See also:Principal Navigations, (a) edition of 1589, p. 809 (N. H.'s narrative of the voyage of 1586–1588) ; (b) edition of 1599-1600, vol. iii. pp. 803-825 (See also:Francis See also:Pretty's narrative of the same); (c) edition of 1599–1600, vol. iii. pp. 251-253 (on the venture of 1585) ; (d) edition of 1599–1600, vol. iii. pp. 845-852 (John See also:Lane's narrative of the last voyage, of 1591–1592) ; also Stationers' Registers (See also:Arber), vol. ii. pp. 505-509; the See also:Molyneux Globe of 1592, in the library of the See also:Middle See also:Temple, See also:London, and the See also:Ballads in Biog. Brit., vol. i. p. 1196.
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