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CAVENDISH [CANDISH1, THOMAS
Cambridge (without a degree), he almost ruined himself by his .extravagance as a courtier. To repair his fortune he turned to maritime and colonial enterprise, and in 1585 accompanied Sir Richard Grenville to America. Soon returning to England, he undertook an elaborate imitation of Drake's great
home . By way of Sierra Leone, the Cape Verde Islands and C. Frio in Brazil, he coasted down to Patagonia (where he discovered " Port Desire," his only important contribution to knowledge), and passing through Magellan's Straits, fell upon the Spanish settlements and shipping on the west coast of South and Central America and of Mexico
Great
home ; touched at the Ladrones, Philippines, Moluccas and Java; rounded the Cape 4f Good Hope
See Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, (a) edition of 1589, p. 809 (N. H.'s narrative of the voyage of 15861588) ; (b) edition of 1599-1600, vol. iii. pp. 803-825 (Francis Pretty's narrative of the same); (c) edition of 15991600, vol. iii. pp. 251-253 (on the venture of 1585) ; (d) edition of 15991600, vol. iii. pp. 845-852 (John Lane's narrative of the last voyage, of 15911592) ; also Stationers' Registers ( Arber
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