overpowered in detail, and the vessel carried into San Lucar in Spain, where the captive Mohammedans were themselves promptly sold for slaves. A somewhat similar story is told of one John Rawlings, skipper of a small vessel of forty tons, named the =Nicholas= of Plymouth. He was taken prisoner outside the Straits of Gibraltar and carried to Algiers, where he was sold as a slave to an English renegade of the name of John Goodall. Goodall employed him in the crew of one of the various pirate craft he owned, and Rawlings had the good fortune and dexterity to organise and carry through a conspiracy among the Christian slaves, who overpowered the Mohammedan masters and carried the ship into Plymouth. These, however, were exceptional cases, and of those who fell into the hands of these pirates there were few who ever saw an end to their captivity, unless they had friends to ransom them or were prepared to become renegades. In 1620 a fleet was at last fitted out against these enemies of the human race. King James acted at least as much under the influence of the Spaniards, to whom Algiers was a perpetual menace, as in the interest of his own subjects. Neither the Spaniard nor the English trader profited by this solitary example of King James's naval enterprise. The expedition was too futile to deserve detailed notice in the history of the English Navy, when so many and such very different events lie close ahead of us. Yet the constitution of the squadron is interesting, as showing within a moderate space how the fleets of that time were composed. His Majesty's Ships. Ships. Tons. Men. Brass Guns. Commanders. =The Lion=, Admiral 600 250 40 Sir Robert Mansel. =Vanguard=, Vice-Admiral 660 250 40 Sir Richard Hawkins. =Rainbow=, Rear-Admiral 660 250 40 Sir Thomas Button. =Constant Reformation= 660 250 40 Captain Arth. Manwaring. =Antelope= 400 160 34 Sir Henry Palmer. =Convertine= 500 220 36 Captain Thomas Love. Merchant Ships.