CHAPTER XXVII.

DRAKE'S EXPLOIT WITH A SLEEPING SPANIARD--HIS 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.

A fortnight after leaving Valparaiso, Drake anchored at the mouth of the Coquimbo. The watering party sent ashore had barely time to escape from a body of five hundred horse and foot. At another place, called Tarapaca, the waterers found a Spaniard lying asleep, and took from him thirteen bars of silver of the value of four thousand ducats. Southey states, as if it were a trait of magnanimity, that no personal injury was offered to the sleeping man. They next captured eight lamas, each carrying a hundred pounds of silver. At Arica they found two ships at anchor, a single negro being on board of each: from the one they took forty bars of silver, and from the other two hundred jars of wine. As the Pelican was more than a match for the two negroes, the latter wisely offered no resistance. Drake arrived at Callao, the port of Lima,--Lima being the capital of Peru,--before it was known that an enemy's ship had entered the waters of the Pacific. He immediately boarded a bark laden with silk, which he consented to leave unmolested on condition that the owner would pilot him into Callao, which he