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Title: Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ...
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Goodrich, Frank B. (Frank Boott), 1826-1894
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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eryet performed. She went on board of her, and partook ofa banquet there with the commander, who, kneeling at herfeet, rose up Sir Francis Drake. The Westminster studentsinscribed a Latin quatrain upon the mainmast, of which thefollowing lines are a translation: Sir Drake, whom well the worlds end knows, which thou didst compass round,And whom both poles of heaven saw,—which north and south do bound,—The stars above will make thee known, if men here silent were :The sun himself cannot forget his fellow-traveller. The ship remained at Deptford till she decayed and fell to pieces:a chair was made from one of her planks and presented to theUniversity of Oxford, where it is still to be seen. Such was the first voyage around the world accomplished byan Englishman. Drakes success awakened the spirit and geniusof navigation in the English people, and may be said to havecontributed in no slight degree to the naval supremacy theyafterwards acquired. If, in accordance with the manner of the
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QUEEN ELIZABETH KNIGHTING DRAKE. MAN UPON THE SEA. 257 times, he was quite as much a pirate as a navigator, and mingledplunder and piety, prayer and pillage, in pretty equal pro-portions, and is to be judged accordingly, he at least made anoble use of the fortune he had acquired, in aiding the queenin her wars with Spain, and in encouraging the construction ofpublic works. He built, with his own resources, an aqueducttwenty miles in length, with which to supply Plymouth withwater. He died at sea, while commanding an expedition againstthe Spanish West India Islands. He wrote no account of hisadventures and discoveries. A volume published by Nuno daSylva, his Portuguese pilot, whose statements were confirmed bythe officers, has served as the basis of the various narratives inexistence. We may briefly allude here to an attempt made in 1585, underthe auspices of the English Government, by John Davis, a sea-man of acknowledged ability, with two ships,—the Sunshine andMoonshine,—to disc

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