Part 1

THIS “O-P BOOK” IS AN AUTHORIZED REPRINT OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION, PRODUCED BY MICROFILM-XEROX BY UNIVERSITY MICROFILMS, INC., ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, 1961

WORKS ISSUED BY The Hakluyt Society.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE HIS VOYAGE, 1595.

M.DCCC.XLIX.

THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

President.

SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., Corr. Mem. Inst. Fr., Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. Sc. St. Petersburg, &c., &c.

Vice-Presidents.

VICE-ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES MALCOLM, KT. THE REV. H. H. MILMAN, M.A.

Council.

CHARLES T. BEKE, ESQ., PHIL. D., F.S.A. CAPT. C. R. D. BETHUNE, R.N., C.B. CAPT. F. P. BLACKWOOD, R.N. MAJ.-GEN. J. BRIGGS, F.R.S. BOLTON CORNEY, ESQ., M.R.S.L. SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S. JOHN FORSTER, ESQ. J. E. GRAY, ESQ., F.R.S. JOHN WINTER JONES, ESQ. R. H. MAJOR, ESQ. R. MONCKTON MILNES, ESQ., M.P. CHARLES NEWTON, ESQ. REV. G. C. RENOUARD, M.A. W. B. RYE, ESQ. SIR ROBERT SCHOMBURGK. ANDREW SMITH, ESQ., M.D. SIR GEORGE T. STAUNTON, BART, M.P., F.R.S.

Honorary Secretary.

WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOLEY, F.R.G.S.

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THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY, which is established for the purpose of printing rare or unpublished Voyages and Travels, aims at opening by this means an easier access to the sources of a branch of knowledge, which yields to none in importance, and is superior to most in agreeable variety. The narratives of travellers and navigators make us acquainted with the earth, its inhabitants and productions; they exhibit the growth of intercourse among mankind, with its effects on civilization, and, while instructing, they at the same time awaken attention, by recounting the toils and adventures of those who first explored unknown and distant regions.

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Already Published.

The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, KNT.

In his Voyage into the South Sea in 1593. Reprinted from the edition of 1622, and edited by Capt. C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, R.N., C.B.

SELECT LETTERS OF COLUMBUS,

With Original Documents relating to the DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD. Translated and Edited by R. H. MAJOR, Esq.

THE DISCOVERIE OF THE EMPIRE OF GUIANA,

By SIR WALTER RALEGH, KNT. Edited, with Copious Explanatory Notes, and a Biographical Memoir, by SIR ROBERT H. SCHOMBURGK, Phil. D., &c.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE HIS VOYAGE, 1595,

By THOMAS MAYNARDE, together with the Spanish Account of Drake’s Attack on Puerto Rico, edited from the Original MSS. by W. D. COOLEY.

Works in Progress.

Narratives of Voyages made for the Discovery of a Passage by the Northwest to Cathaia and India, from A.D. 1490 to A.D. 1631, with Illustrations from unpublished MSS. by THOMAS RUNDALL.

Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii. The earliest Account of Russia, by Sigismund von Herberstein, to be translated from the rare editions of 1549 and 1556, by R. H. MAJOR, Esq.

The East India Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton, in 1604-5. From the rare edition of 1606, edited by BOLTON CORNEY, Esq.

Works Suggested to the Council for Publication.

TRADESCANT THE ELDER IN RUSSIA, 1618.—A Review of the early Voyages in the North, and of the origin of the Commercial Intercourse between England and Russia, by DR. J. HAMEL, 1847, to be translated from the German.

CARPINI AND RUBRUQUIS.—The Travels of John de Plano Carpini, and of Guillaume de Rubruquis, to the Great Khan of Tartary, in 1245 and 1253 respectively. Translated from the text published by the Société de Géographie of Paris.

FRESCOBALDI.—The Travels of Frescobaldi in Egypt and Syria, in 1384. Translated from the Italian text as edited by Manzi.

BÉTHENCOURT.—A History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands, made by Jean de Béthencourt, in 1402-25. From the French Narrative of his Chaplains, Pierre Bontier and Jean le Verrier.

CA DA MOSTO.—The Voyages of Ca da Mosto along the Western Coast of Africa, in 1454. Translated from the Italian text of 1507.

VARTHEMA.—The Travels of Ludovico de Varthema, in Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, India, and Ethiopia, in 1503-8. Translated from the Italian text of 1510.

DRAKE.—The _world encompassed_ by Sir Francis Drake, 1577-80. Written by Francis Fletcher, preacher, &c. Collated with a MS.

HAKLUYT.—Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America and the Islands adjacent to the same. From the rare edition of 1582.

VIRGINIA.—Virginia in the years 1584-1600; comprising the Narratives of Arthur Barlowe, Ralf Lane, Thomas Harriot, &c.

RUSSIA.—Of the Russe Commonwealth. By Giles Fletcher, D.C.L. From the suppressed edition of 1591.

CADIZ.—A Brief and True Report of the Honourable Voyage to Cadiz, 1596. From the suppressed edition of 1598, with additions.

TRESWELL.—The journey of the Earl of Nottingham to Spain, in 1604. By R. Treswell, Somerset Herald, with additions.

SOFALAH.—The History of Eastern Ethiopia, by J. dos Santos, 1607. Translated, with Notes.

COLONIZATION.—Pamphlets on Colonization. By Sir William Alexander (afterwards Earl of Sterline), and James Hagthorpe.

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SIR FRANCIS DRAKE HIS VOYAGE, 1595,

By THOMAS MAYNARDE,

TOGETHER WITH THE SPANISH ACCOUNT OF DRAKE’S ATTACK ON PUERTO RICO.

EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, BY W. D. COOLEY.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY. M.DCCC.XLIX.

RICHARDS, 100, ST. MARTINS LANE.

THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

Council.

SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., Corr. Mem. Inst. Fr.; Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. Sc. St. Petersburg, &c. &c., PRESIDENT.

VICE-ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES MALCOLM, Kt. } VICE-PRESIDENTS. THE REV. H. H. MILMAN, M.A. } CHARLES T. BEKE, ESQ., PHIL. D., F.S.A. CAPTAIN C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, R.N., C.B. CAPTAIN F. P. BLACKWOOD, R.N. MAJOR-GENERAL J. BRIGGS, F.R.S. BOLTON CORNEY, ESQ., M.R.S.L. SIR HENRY ELLIS, K. H., F.R.S. JOHN FORSTER, ESQ. J. E. GRAY, ESQ., F.R.S. JOHN WINTER JONES, ESQ. R. H. MAJOR, ESQ. R. MONCKTON MILNES, ESQ., M.P. CHARLES NEWTON, ESQ. REVEREND G. C. RENOUARD. W. G. RYE, ESQ. SIR ROBERT SCHOMBURGK. ANDREW SMITH, ESQ., M.D. SIR GEORGE T. STAUNTON, BART., M.P., F.R.S.

WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOLEY, ESQ., F.R.G.S., SECRETARY.

PREFACE.

The name of SIR FRANCIS DRAKE is one of the brightest ornaments of HAKLUYT’s collection; and a Society, which undertakes to continue and complete the labours of the latter, cannot certainly be better employed than in publishing documents illustrating the life and achievements of that distinguished seaman.

In conformity with this view, the two original pieces which follow have been selected for publication; both brief but full of life, and the first of them, in particular, very racy and characteristic.

The value of Maynarde’s paper (additional MSS., No. 5209, in the library of the British Museum), lies in the writer’s intimacy with Sir Francis Drake, whom he accompanied in the unfortunate expedition which is the subject of the following narrative, and in the shrewdness of his remarks, clothed occasionally in the quaintest language. It cannot be denied that it tends to dispel much of the romance which has hitherto coloured so brilliantly the history of the naval hero. But truth is thereby a gainer. Romance elevates the hero at the expense of human nature, and sacrifices the many for the glory of one. It may not be without advantage to learn, from the example of one so justly celebrated as Drake, what sordid motives may be cloaked under the pretence of national glory, and how mistrustfully we ought to listen to the professedly generous instigators of war and rapine.

The Spanish paper, Relacion de lo Sucedido, etc., (additional MSS. No. 13,964, British Museum), which has the form of an official report, or dispatch, is extremely interesting, inasmuch as it allows us to see, in immediate juxtaposition and direct contrast, the accounts of the affair at Puerto Rico, as given by the two belligerent parties.

These papers are here reproduced from the originals without change or emendation; so that their defects, whether attributable to negligence or ignorance, may be taken into consideration in estimating their intrinsic worth.

The superficial inaccuracies of Maynarde’s paper are not a few; his constant misspelling of proper names, as Corasaw for Curaçoa, St. Tomarta for Sta. Martha, would seem to prove him illiterate. It is still more important, that, through oversight and omission, he states the number of the forces, who marched from Nombre de Dios to attack Panama, to be fifty, instead of seven hundred and fifty.

It is amusing to observe the variance between the Spanish and English accounts of the same action, both written in good faith. The Spaniards had but seventy guns, and yet the English reckoned 5160 pieces of artillery playing on them. This tremendous fire would appear from the English account to have done no great harm, while the Spaniards allege that they killed four hundred of the enemy, besides wounding many more.