In the Annals of the Company,[90] we are told that the funds provided for this first voyage amounted to £68,373, of which £39,771 were expended in the purchase and equipment of the ships, £28,742 being embarked in bullion, and £6,860 in goods. But the aggregate of these sums amounts to £77,373; so that the historiographer appears to have fallen into some error, either in the particulars or the sum total. We are not informed of the particular success of this first voyage; only that the conjunct profits of it and of the second amounted to £95 per cent. upon the capitals employed in both, clear of all charges.[91] [Footnote 90: Id. I.146.] [Footnote 91: Ann. of the H.E.I. Co. I. 153.] We may state here from the Annals of the Company, that the profits of the _third_ and _fifth_ voyage combined amounted to £234 per cent. Of the _fourth_ voyage to a total loss, as one of the vessels was wrecked in India on the outward-bound voyage, and the other on the coast of France in her return. The profits of the _sixth_ voyage were £121 13:4: per cent. Of the _seventh_ £218 per cent. Of the _eighth_ £211 per cent. Of the _ninth_ £160 per cent. The average profits of the _tenth, eleventh, twelfth_, and _thirteenth_ voyages were reduced to £87-1/2 per cent. Captain James Lancaster, afterwards Sir James, who was general in this voyage, was a member of the company; and is the same person who went to India in 1591, along with Captain Raymond. Captain John Davis, who had been in India with the Dutch, was pilot-major and second in command of the Dragon, or admiral ship. It does not appear who was the author of the following narrative; but, from several passages, he seems to have sailed in the Dragon.[92]--E. [Footnote 92: Astl. I. 262., a and b.] § 1. _Preparation for the Voyage, and its Incidents till the Departure of the Fleet from Saldanha Bay_.