Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XXVII.--Drake's Exploit with a Sleeping Spaniard--His

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Achievements at Callao--Battle with a Treasure-Ship--Drake gives a Receipt for her Cargo--Indites a Touching Epistle--His Plans for Returning Home--Fresh Captures--Performances at Guatulco and Acapulco--Drake dismisses his Pilot--Exceeding Cold Weather--Drake regarded as a God by the Californians--Sails for the Moluccas--Visits Ternate and Celebes--The Pelican upon a Reef--The Return Voyage--Protest of the Spanish Ambassador--He styles Drake the Master-Thief of the Unknown World--Queen Elizabeth on board the Pelican--Drake's Use of his Fortune--His Death--The Voyage of John Davis to the Northwest 267