. Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians . OF Virginia and Virginians. covery by Cabot gave England a claim to a large portion ofthe North American continent, which she afterward success-fully asserted. Drakes Voyage Around the World.—In 1579 Sir Francis Drake, an English-inan, passed through the straits of Magel-lan, explored the Pacific coast and re-turned to Europe by way of the Cape ofGood Hope. This was the second voyagearound the world, the first having beenmade in 1520 by Magellan, a Portuguese . • ,1 • r o • SIR tKANClj DRAKE navigator m the service of Spam. Queen Elizabeth.
. Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians . OF Virginia and Virginians. covery by Cabot gave England a claim to a large portion ofthe North American continent, which she afterward success-fully asserted. Drakes Voyage Around the World.—In 1579 Sir Francis Drake, an English-inan, passed through the straits of Magel-lan, explored the Pacific coast and re-turned to Europe by way of the Cape ofGood Hope. This was the second voyagearound the world, the first having beenmade in 1520 by Magellan, a Portuguese . • ,1 • r o • SIR tKANClj DRAKE navigator m the service of Spam. Queen Elizabeth.—In the month of January, 1558, morethan sixty years after the first voyage of Cabot, the PrincessElizabeth, daughter of King Henr}^ VIII, was crowned Queenof England. She was then twenty-five years of age, andher coronation was the occasion of greatrejoicing among the English people, whohoped for a new era of peace and pros-perity at home under her reign. In thisthey were not disappointed. Her Character and Government.—Thequeens early years had been passed invirtu
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