The Spanish in the Southwest . ere Drake landedfor water, his men found a Spaniard asleep on the shore,while near him were lying thirteen large bars of silver, worth four thousand ducats in Spanish money. As the old chronicler says, We took the silver and leftthe man. Drake captured somany Spanish vessels,whose loads he light-ened while he madehis own heavy, thathe at last began tothink of returningto England. It wasnot safe to go backthrough the Straitof Magellan; theSpaniards were watching for him there, and would havelittle mercy should they capture him. Besides, he remem-bered how the stor
The Spanish in the Southwest . ere Drake landedfor water, his men found a Spaniard asleep on the shore,while near him were lying thirteen large bars of silver, worth four thousand ducats in Spanish money. As the old chronicler says, We took the silver and leftthe man. Drake captured somany Spanish vessels,whose loads he light-ened while he madehis own heavy, thathe at last began tothink of returningto England. It wasnot safe to go backthrough the Straitof Magellan; theSpaniards were watching for him there, and would havelittle mercy should they capture him. Besides, he remem-bered how the storms raged in the straits, and he did notlike to take the risk of losing his one little vessel, heavilyloaded as she was with prizes from the Spaniards. Drake knew of the many efforts which had been madeto find a northern passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific,and he determined to see if he could discover the straitsfrom the Pacific side. He therefore sailed still farthernorth, past the coasts of Mexico and California. Finally. The sleeping Spaniard The English in the North Pacific 93 he reached just about the same latitude visited by Cabrillospilot in 1543. There the Golden Hind met bad weather,and the men on board were grievously pinched withcold. Drake had not found the hoped-for strait, but thestorms with snow and ice warned him that he must giveup his search. He caused the ships course to be changed,and returned toward the south. The Golden Hind needed repairs, and somewhere nearSan Francisco, Drake entered a small bay, dropped an-chor, and stayed long enough to rest his men and tomake his ship ready for the long voyage home. Drakebelieved that, difficult as it might be, the safest way toreturn to England was to take the Spanish route westacross the Pacific to the Philippines and the East Indies,and thence to follow the Portuguese vessels around Africainto the Atlantic. Drake was well received by the Indians of the crowded around the crew, went on board the ship
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