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Etext prepared by Dagny, [email protected] and John Bickers,
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SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED

Editor: Philip Nichols

PREPARER'S NOTE
This text was originally prepared from a 1910 edition, published by P F
Collier & Son Company, New York. It included this note:
Faithfully taken out of the report of Master Christopher Ceely, Ellis
Hixom, and others, who were in the same Voyage with him By Philip
Nichols, Preacher Reviewed by Sir Francis Drake himself Set forth by
Sir Francis Drake, Baronet (his nephew)

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED

INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Sir Francis Drake, the greatest of the naval adventurers of England of
the time of Elizabeth, was born in Devonshire about 1540. He went to
sea early, was sailing to the Spanish Main by 1565, and commanded a
ship under Hawkins in an expedition that was overwhelmed by the
Spaniards in 1567. In order to recompense himself for the loss suffered
in this disaster, he equipped the expedition against the Spanish
treasure-house at Nombre de Dios in 1572, the fortunes of which are
described in the first of the two following narratives. It was on this
voyage that he was led by native guides to "that goodly and great high
tree" on the isthmus of Darien, from which, first of Englishmen, he
looked on the Pacific, and "besought Almighty God of His goodness to
give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea."
The fulfilment of this prayer is described in the second of the voyages
here printed, in which it is told how, in 1578, Drake passed through the
Straits of Magellan into waters never before sailed by his countrymen,
and with a single ship rifled the Spanish settlements on the west coast
of South America and plundered the Spanish treasure- ships; how,

considering it unsafe to go back the way he came lest the enemy should
seek revenge, he went as far north as the Golden Gate, then passed
across the Pacific and round by the Cape of Good Hope, and so home,
the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. Only Magellan's ship
had preceded him in the feat, and Magellan had died on the voyage.
The Queen visited the ship, "The Golden Hind," as she lay at Deptford
and knighted the commander on board.
Drake's further adventures were of almost