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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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to thedate of his birth, and the method of hisnurture, the annalists, Camden and Stowe,are not agreed. By the latter we are toldthat Drake was born at Tavistock, about1545, and brought up under the care of akinsman, the well-known navigator. SirJohn Hawkins. Camden, on the otherhand, anticipates his birth by several years,and says that he was bound apprentice toa small shipowner on the coast of Kent,who, dying unmarried, in reward of hisindustry bestowed his bark upon him asa legacy. Both accounts agree that in1567 he went with Hawkins to theWest Indies on a trading voyage, which gave its color to the rest of his life.Their little squadron was obliged by stress of weather to put into St. Juan deUlloa, on the coast of Mexico ; where, after being received with a show ofamity, it was beset and attacked by a superior force, and only two vesselsescaped. To make amends for his losses in this adventure, in the quaint lan-guage of the biographer Prince, in his Worthies of Devon, Mr. Drake was
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o I H< DC Z SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 177 persuaded by the minister of his ship that he might lawfully recover the value ofthe King of Spain by reprisal, and repair his losses upon him anywhere else.The case was clear in sea divinity ; and few are such infidels as not to believe indoctrines which make for their profit. Whereupon Drake, though then a poorprivate man, undertook to revenge himself upon so mighty a monarch. In the years 1570-71 Drake made two voyages to the West Indies, appar-ently to gain a more precise acquaintance with the seas, the situation, strength,and wealth of the Spanish settlements. In 1572 he sailed with two ships, one ofseventy-five tons, the other of twenty-five tons, their united crews musteringonly seventy-three men and boys, all volunteers. His object was to capture thenow ruined city of Nombre de Dios, situated on the Isthmus of Panama, a fewmiles east of Porto Bello, then the great repository of all the treasure conveyedfrom Mexico to Spain. O

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