THEY stayed here two months afterwards, without receiving any other injuries from the natives; who, finding the danger to which they exposed themselves by open hostilities, and not being able any more to surprise the vigilance of Drake, preferred their safety to revenge. But Drake had other enemies to conquer or escape, far more formidable than these barbarians, and insidious practice to obviate, more artful and dangerous than the ambushes of the Indians; for in this place was laid open a design, formed by one of the gentlemen of the fleet, not only to defeat the voyage, but to murder the general. This transaction is related in so obscure and confused a manner, that it is difficult to form any judgment upon it. The writer who gives the largest account of it, has suppressed the name of the criminal; which we learn from a more succinct narrative, published in a collection of travels near that time, to have been Thomas Doughtie. What were his inducements to attempt the destruction of his leader, and the ruin of the expedition; or what were his views, if his designs had succeeded; what measures he had hitherto taken; whom he had endeavoured to corrupt; with what arts, or what success; we are no where told.