. The ephebic oath . the Lightship, old No. 70; and farther still,the intermittent beam from the revolvinglens on the Farallones. On the right Bonitaflashes brightly; and marking the channelare many kindly lights. Three hundred thirty-three years ago, anEnglish gentleman buccaneer, sharer ofspoils with certain stay-at-homes influentialat Court, turned a new furrow in this stretch,now so well guarded by light and a great river that should bear himto the Atlantic, Francis Drake drove theGolden Hind northward until the summerwind forced him back. Glad to get out ofthe wind, he rounde
. The ephebic oath . the Lightship, old No. 70; and farther still,the intermittent beam from the revolvinglens on the Farallones. On the right Bonitaflashes brightly; and marking the channelare many kindly lights. Three hundred thirty-three years ago, anEnglish gentleman buccaneer, sharer ofspoils with certain stay-at-homes influentialat Court, turned a new furrow in this stretch,now so well guarded by light and a great river that should bear himto the Atlantic, Francis Drake drove theGolden Hind northward until the summerwind forced him back. Glad to get out ofthe wind, he rounded the point, now markedby a first-order light. Under the lee ofPoint Reyes he anchored, and named thewhite cliffs Nuova Albion. And so it hap- 52 THELICHTSOVTSIDE. pens that the first New England lies on thenorthern shore of this stretch of waters, theGulf of the Farallones. Drake remained a month taking over thesovereignty of the country and repairing hisstout little ship, the only one left of thefleet of three with which he started fromPlymouth. Leaving on a day in June, hesailed southwestward across this ensenada, andsighting the Farallones, sent a boats crewashore. He named these rocky outposts TheIslands of St. James. There on the stonyshelves, as well as on the beach he had justleft, the accents of our mother tongue brokethe stillness ere yet Shakespeare had learnedhis letters or our English bible had been trans-lated. Not without some measure of surprisedo most visitors to this western rim of the 53 THEUCHTSOVTSIDE
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