. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . countered such great dangers,and by means of which they had been enabled to cross the Isthmusof Darien, where Drake directed his longing gaze towards the watersof the great Pacific (an ocean as yet closed to English enterprise), anduttered that passionate prayer to God, that he might have life andleave once to sail an English ship in those seas. And that prayerwas realized, in Drakes next memorable voyage, when (if we exceptJohn Oxenham, who had served as a sailor and cook under Drake,an
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . countered such great dangers,and by means of which they had been enabled to cross the Isthmusof Darien, where Drake directed his longing gaze towards the watersof the great Pacific (an ocean as yet closed to English enterprise), anduttered that passionate prayer to God, that he might have life andleave once to sail an English ship in those seas. And that prayerwas realized, in Drakes next memorable voyage, when (if we exceptJohn Oxenham, who had served as a sailor and cook under Drake,and who merely floated a pinnace on the South Sea, and was takenand executed as a pirate by the Spaniards) he was the very firstEnglish captain to whom appertained that honour. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free;They were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.—Colekidge. It was in these voyages that the men of the sixteenth centurydiscovered how gold was to be obtained from the Spanish territoriesand seas of the New World. The first voyage had been signalized -. House.
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