Four years later another English expedition sailed for the South Sea, but of a less pacific nature. Lord Cumberland was at its head, but Withrington was in active command, and of two privateers which accompanied it, one had been fitted out by Raleigh. From information which they obtained from Portuguese vessels which they had captured, they resolved to attack _San Salvador_, and accordingly made for _Bahia_. The safety of that place is said to have been due to the presence of converted Indians, who had been gathered together there, and who constituted a formidable force of archers; but the English remained six weeks in the bay, doing much damage to the neighbouring country. The next English privateer of whom we read in connection with _Brazil_ is Cavendish, who sent two of his vessels to attack the town of _Santos_. The inhabitants were surprised at mass, and the one man who resisted was slain, the rest being detained prisoners in church. They contrived to escape, however, at night, and took good care to make away with all their portable property; so that when Cavendish arrived some days later he found neither inhabitants nor provisions. The result was that after remaining several weeks the fleet had to depart worse provisioned than when it had arrived. The next exploit of Cavendish was to burn _San Vicente_ on his way to the Straits, which, however, he failed to pass. His ships being dispersed in a storm, he put back alone to the coast of _Brazil_, and landed twenty-five men near _Santos_, with instructions to seize provisions and return forthwith. But of this party not a man returned. They were seized by the natives, and only two were spared to be carried prisoners to _Santos_. Cavendish was now joined by another vessel of his squadron, and made for _Espirito Santo_. It not being deemed prudent for the ships to attempt to cross the bar, a party of eighty men were sent over it in boats, the orders of their commander, Captain Morgan, being to discover a good landing-place near the town. Disobeying the positive commands of his superior, he landed with a number of his men, with the result that he was himself killed, together with a large proportion of his force, upon which Cavendish left the coast of _Brazil_ in despair, and died, it is said, of grief on his homeward voyage. [Sidenote: 1594.]