Ontario High School History of England . second voyage was successful, but a third, in 1567, proveda failure. Hawkins fell in with a superior Spanish forceand lost many men and much property, though he and hisyoung nephew, Francis Drake, sailed safely back to voyage round the world, 1577-80.—HenceforthDrake becomes the leader in the assaults upon Spain. Hescorned the trade in slaves, butwas quite ready to play the pirateby seiziing Spanish ships in timeof peace. Even Elizabeth herselfwas not above sharing the spoilfrom his enterprises. Sometimeshe secured rich booty. The goldand
Ontario High School History of England . second voyage was successful, but a third, in 1567, proveda failure. Hawkins fell in with a superior Spanish forceand lost many men and much property, though he and hisyoung nephew, Francis Drake, sailed safely back to voyage round the world, 1577-80.—HenceforthDrake becomes the leader in the assaults upon Spain. Hescorned the trade in slaves, butwas quite ready to play the pirateby seiziing Spanish ships in timeof peace. Even Elizabeth herselfwas not above sharing the spoilfrom his enterprises. Sometimeshe secured rich booty. The goldand silver of the Pacific coast ofAmerica were brought by theSpaniards to the Isthmus of Pan-ama, and carried across, usuallyon mules, to the Atlantic side, tobe shipped to Europe. On oneoccasion, when Drake had landedon the isthmus, he was led to aspot where, from a tree-top, he looked out westwards and saw the wide sweep of thePacific Ocean. No English ship had sailed, as yet, on itsvast expanse, but now, though the Spanish claimed the. Sir Francis Drake(1515-1596) 234 HISTORY OF ENGLAND Pacific coast of America, Drake was resolved to invade set out from England in 1577 with three ships. Oneof them foundered, another turned back, and at lengthDrake, having worked his way through the tortuous Straitsof Magellan, found himself with a single ship, the GoldenHind, of only one hundred tons, tossed by a fierce stormfor fifty-three days on the limitless waters south ofGape Horn. When able to sail ,rds,he found it easyto enter and plunder the Spanish seaports on the Pacific,where foreign marauders had been hitherto raised the English flag on a spot probably witnin thepresent state of California, and, long before New Englandwas founded, called the country New Albion. He hadan impracticable plan to get back into the Atlantic by wayof the Arctic Ocean, but, in the end, struck out across thePacific and, in 1580, arrived in England, having sailedround the world. Hi
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