To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority.

Cavendish kept with him two Japanese sailors three boys from Manila a Portuguese traveler familiar with China and a Spanish pilot (navigator). His father was William Cavendish; he was a descendant of Roger Cavendish brother to Sir John Cavendish from whom the Dukes of Devonshire and the Dukes of Newcastle derive their family name of Cavendish. Sir Thomas Cavendish (19 September 1560 – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe.

While members of Magellan's Loaisa's Drake's and Loyola's expeditions had preceded Cavendish in circumnavigating the globe it had not been their intent at the outset. He later set out for a second raiding and circumnavigation trip but was not as fortunate and died at sea at the age of 32. His first trip and successful circumnavigation made him rich from captured Spanish gold silk and treasure from the Pacific and the Philippines.