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Title: An introduction to American history, European beginnings
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Alice M. (Alice Minerva), b. 1868
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and sacked the town, carrying offeven the silver chalice and altar cloth from its little chapel.Several times his party landed on the way up the coast,once robbing of all his silver a man they found lyingasleep on the shore; again capturing from their driversome sheep heavily loaded with the precious metal; andtaking from many a passing boat its cargo. At another place they found twelve well-stored ships.These they plundered of silver, linen, and silks, and thencut their cables and set them adrift. Then they sailedon toward Panama in pursuit of another ship of which 1 The whole Pacific Ocean was sometimes called by this name. The stretchof South American coast along the Caribbean Sea was called the Spanish Main.Some writers of to-day give this name to the,Caribbean Sea itself. ^ As soon as Drake passed the Strait of Magellan he rechristened his vesselthe Golden Hind, which was the crest of Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellorto Queen Elizabeth and one of her favorite courtiers. ...
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THE ELIZABETHAN AGE 317 they had heard. This, too, was robbed when it wasovertaken, together with several more that they cameacross later. By this time they had on board such a loadof gold, silver, diamonds, emeralds, pearls, and othertreasure that it amounted to more than a million dollarsin value, and Drake began to consider the best way ofreturning to England. If he went back the way he had come, he ran everyrisk of being captured by the Spanish. He resolved,therefore, to cross the Pacific as Magellan had done and,passing by way of the Moluccas, to double the Cape ofGood Hope, sail up the coast of Africa, and so reachEngland from the opposite side of the world. All thishe accomplished, and won the fame of being the firstEnglish mariner to circumnavigate the globe. Therecords of his trip show that he landed on the coastof California on his journey, spent some time wdth thefriendly Indians there, and set up a brass tablet on thespot where he landed, engraved with the date andQueen El

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