250 150 70 30
   Lion, 500 12 250 150 70 30
   Nonpareille, 500 12 250 150 70 30
   Defiance, 500 12 250 150 70 30
   Rainbow, 500 12 250 150 70 30
   Dreadnought, 400 10 200 130 50 20
   Antilope, 350 10 160 114 30 16
   Swiftsure, 400 10 200 130 50 20
   Swallow, 380 10 160 114 30 16
   Foresight, 300 10 160 114 30 16
   Tide, 250 7 120 88 20 12
   Crane, 200 7 100 76 20 12
   Adventure, 250 7 120 88 20 12
   Quittance, 200 7 100 76 20 12
   Answer, 200 7 100 76 20 12
   Advantage, 200 7 100 70 20 12
   Tiger, 200 7 100 70 20 12
   Tremontain, 6 70 52 10 8
   Scout, 120 6 66 48 10 8
   Catis, 100 5 60 42 10 8
   Charles, 70 5 45 32 7 6
   Moon, 60 5 40 30 5 5
   Advice, 50 5 40 30 5 5
   Spy, 50 5 40 30 5 5
   Merlin, 45 5 35 26 4 5
   Sun, 40 5 30 24 2 4
   Synnet[B] 20 2
   George Hoy, 100 10
   Penny-rose Hoy, 80 8

[Footnote A:  The difference between mariners and sailors is not obvious:  Perhaps the former were what are now called ordinary, and the latter able seamen.  Besides, the numbers of both these united, do not make up the whole compliment of men at sea:  Perhaps the deficiency, being 40 in the largest ships of this list, was made up by what were then called grummets: servants, ship-boys, or landsmen.—­E.]

[Footnote B:  This name ought probably to have been the Cygnet.]

CHAPTER IX.

EARLY VOYAGES OF THE ENGLISH TO THE EAST INDIES, BEFORE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN EXCLUSIVE COMPANY.

SECTION I.

Voyage to Goa in 1579, in the Portuguese fleet, by Thomas Stevens[396].

INTRODUCTION.