The next enterprise of this sort was attempted in 1598, by a nobleman, Troïlus de Mesgouez, marquis de la Roche, etc.; governor of Morlaix from 1568 to 1586, afterwards of St. Lô. Lescarbot gives, in his _Nouv. France_ (1612), pp. 422-429, La Roche's commission from Henry IV. Gathering from the prisons a shipload of convicts, as material for a colony, and landing them temporarily on Sable Island (see vol. ii., _note_ 20), he was driven thence by a storm, and forced to return to France. Broken by misfortunes, he died in 1606.--See Faillon's _Col. Fr._, vol. i., pp. 66-71; Dionne's _Nouv. France_, pp. 151-189, 299-310; and Harrisse's _Notes_, pp. 12-14. Ferland (_Cours d'Histoire_, vol. i., pp. 60, 61) argues that La Roche's voyage was made in 1578, or soon afterward. No other colonial enterprises seem to have been actually undertaken until those of Champlain. 10 (p. 47).--Now Cornouaille; a district, then a part of Lower Brittany; also the name of a port near Quimper. 11 (p. 47).--Now Fuenterrabia, in the province of Guipuzcoa, Spain, close to the French boundary-line; noted for its strong fortress (until 1494), and for Wellington's passage here of the Bidassoa (1813). 12 (p. 57).--Sir Francis Drake, one of England's most renowned navigators and explorers; named "the Dragon" (by a play upon his name), in Spanish annals of the time, on account of his fiery and merciless attacks upon the commerce and colonies of Spain. He was a native of Devonshire, England, probably born about 1540; and became a sailor in his boyhood. After several voyages to foreign lands, he commanded one of Sir John Hawkins's ships (the "Judith"), on a voyage to the West Indies, in 1567-68; and from this time until his death was actively engaged in navigation, in war, or in the public service. His most famous voyage is that around the world (December, 1577-September, 1580), in which he discovered (March-July, 1579), the coasts of California and Oregon, of which he took possession in the name of England--a claim never advanced, however, by the English crown. To this country he gave the name of New Albion, which for some time was applied by cartographers to the present Oregon; it is shown on Lady Virginia Ferrer's map (London, 1651). Another notable voyage was that to America (September, 1585-July, 1586), in which Drake, under royal commission, ravaged the Spanish main, taking many towns and much treasure. While on a voyage with Hawkins, he died (January 28, 1596), and was buried at sea.