SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED 

INTRODUCTORY NOTE 

Sir Francis Drake, the greatest of the naval adventurers of England of
the time of Elizabeth, was born in Devonshire about 1540.  He went to
sea early, was sailing to the Spanish Main by 1565, and commanded a
ship under Hawkins in an expedition that was overwhelmed by the
Spaniards in 1567.  In order to recompense himself for the loss
suffered in this disaster, he equipped the expedition against the
Spanish treasure-house at Nombre de Dios in 1572, the fortunes of
which are described in the first of the two following narratives.  It
was on this voyage that he was led by native guides to "that goodly
and great high tree" on the isthmus of Darien, from which, first of
Englishmen, he looked on the Pacific, and "besought Almighty God of
His goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English
ship in that sea." 

The fulfilment of this prayer is described in the second of the
voyages here printed, in which it is told how, in 1578, Drake passed