This last calamity so preyed on Drake that he was seized with a fever, and after languishing for nearly three weeks, he expired near Porto Bello on the 28th of January, 1595, in the fifty-first year of his age. His followers showed the deepest grief at his loss. His body, enclosed in a leaden coffin, was committed to the deep with all the pomp which circumstances would allow. Thus, as was said, he lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it. The whole country mourned his loss, and though his last enterprise had been unsuccessful, all united in admiring the genius and valour of one whose memory, as was written of him, will survive as long as the duration of that world which he circumnavigated. CHAPTER NINETEEN. VOYAGE OF CAVENDISH ROUND THE WORLD--A.D. 1586. Parentage of Cavendish--Sails with Sir Richard Grenville to the West Indies--Introduced to the Queen--Fits out expedition for the South Sea-- Sails from Plymouth--Lands at Sierra Leone--Attacks a negro town-- Passage across the Atlantic--Anchors off coast of Brazil--Puts into Port Desire--Large size of natives--Attacked by them--Enters the Straits of Magellan--A deserted Spanish colony--One man rescued--San Felipe visited--Port Famine--Enters the Pacific--The squadron puts into Mocha-- Obtains provisions by a mistake of the natives--An expedition on shore at Quintero--Twelve of the crew cut off--Anchors off Moron Moreno-- Degraded natives--Proceedings at Areca--Prisoners taken and tortured-- Payta plundered--The island of Paria and its wealthy cacique--The English surprised by Spaniards--Several killed--Cavendish burns the place--Several vessels captured--Cocoa found on board a prize--Some persons made prisoners on shore held captive till provisions are brought--In search of the Manilla galleon--She is attacked and captured--The prisoners well treated--The _Santa Anna_ set on fire--The _Desire_ and _Content_ set sail--Ersola, a pilot, carried off--The _Content_ lost sight of--No tidings ever received of her--The ship touches at Guham and proceeds on to the Philippines--Treachery of Ersola discovered--He is hung--A Spanish frigate put to flight--Death of Captain Havers--Java reached--Reception by the Rajah--The Indian Ocean crossed--A tempest--Passes the Cape of Good Hope--Touches at Saint Helena--Hears of the defeat of the Spanish Armada--Enters Plymouth with silken sails--Knighted by Queen Elizabeth--Sails on a second voyage-- Numerous disasters--Dies of a broken heart. At an early age Thomas Cavendish, by the death of his father, William Cavendish, of Trunley Saint Martin, in the county of Suffolk, became an orphan, and the possessor of that goodly estate on which he was born. From his childhood he had been wont to gaze on the ocean, which rolled in front of the family mansion, and thus at an early age he became enamoured of a sea life.