Little more than the half

however, was paid up. In 1698 five large ve els laden with stores, ete. and with 1,200 intending colonists Sailed for the Isthmus of Darien, The settlement formed a suitable position and the colonists fortified a secure and capacious harbor; but nothings else had been rightly calculated. To add to their difficulties the colonists were attacked by the Spaniards and all commerce forbidden with them. For eight months the colony bore up. hut at the end of that time the survivors were compelled by disease and famine to abandon their settlement and return to Europe. Two of the ships were lost on the way home, anc only about 30, including Paters on reached Scotland. It is claimed, with some probability, that the English government was jealous of the share of Scotland in the undertaking. Darius I., King of Persia; born in 548 B. c. He was a great conqueror, but failed disastrously in his wars against Greece.