Excerpt from The British Admirals, Vol. 4: With an Introductory View of the Naval History of England Of Sir Richard Hawkins little need be said. His character is simple, his meiits as a seaman and careful thinker on questions of oiganisation, sanitation, armament and discipline are so conspicuous in his own narrative of his voyage that there Is no need to insist upon them. His limitations we equally easy to learn from the same source, and may be left to speak for themselves, with this one brief woid of comment - that when the romance and glory of the Elizabethan age had passed away, the solid business capacity, the practical instincts, and the interest in exploration as a means of Obtaining material good, represented by sii richaid, remained to be employed all through the seventeenth century in laying the founda tions of our naval power Wide and deep by maritime commerce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.