. The ephebic oath . continent learn that twenty-eight years beforeJamestown was settled, and forty-one yearsbefore the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plym-outh Rock, this distant stretch of water, thesewild winds and drifting fogs re-echoed invigorous English, song, jest, oath and perhapsa low voiced prayer for help and safety. Drake, however, was not the first Europeanto behold these grim islets. Thirty-sevenyears earlier, the intrepid Cabrillo, steeringnorth, traversed la Bahia de los Pinos; andthough he missed the islands going north, hemarked them as he sped south before thegale. Twenty-four y
. The ephebic oath . continent learn that twenty-eight years beforeJamestown was settled, and forty-one yearsbefore the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plym-outh Rock, this distant stretch of water, thesewild winds and drifting fogs re-echoed invigorous English, song, jest, oath and perhapsa low voiced prayer for help and safety. Drake, however, was not the first Europeanto behold these grim islets. Thirty-sevenyears earlier, the intrepid Cabrillo, steeringnorth, traversed la Bahia de los Pinos; andthough he missed the islands going north, hemarked them as he sped south before thegale. Twenty-four years after Drake, Viscainocame, seeking the cabo de Mendocino. Heworked his course slowly northward, takingadvantage of the light winds of the early Fall. 54 THEUGHTSOVTSIDE. Then the weather changed even as it doesnow and the first recorded southeast stormbegan. So hard did it blow, the small vessels,the Capitana San Diego and the Fragata LosTres Reyes labored heavily, as well they January 7th (old style), 1603, these voy-agers passed what they called the Puerto deSan Francisco. And the narrative con-tinues: The Fragata, concluding there was nonecessity to seek a harbor, continued thevoyage; and the Capitana, thinking they werein company, did not show a light, so in themorning they were not in sight of each other,and the General returned with the Capitanato the puerto de San Francisco. Perhaps it was not easy to display a lightduring the storm. But on all the face of the 55 THEL1CHTS0VTSIDE
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