Author: Philip Nichols

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780260490872

Excerpt from Sir Francis Drake Revived: Calling Upon This Dull or Effeminate Age, to Follow His Noble Steps for Gold and Silver R T he third day after, about'three tn the'after-'noon, we let I ail from the continent Of fem lime-o And the fifth day after, we had fight of the'high land of. smtamm ha, but Came nor neer the {hoarby ten leagues -but thence direéted our courfe, for a place called by us Pan five/21m, for that our'captain had to named-ir in his -formér, voyage, by, reaflon of the great fi'orej'of thof e gem ly Fowls', which he and his Company did then dayly kill, and feed on, in that place. In this courfegnotwithfianding {we had two dayes calme, yet Within fix dayes we arived at ourfiport Pbefwt: which is a fine round Bay, Of very fafe harbonr for all winds, lying betweene two high points, not 'paft halfé a [cables length over at the inouth, 'bnt within eight orf ten cables length everyway, having ten or twelve fadome water, more or lefl'e, full of good fiflr, the foile'alfo very fruitful] which may appear by this, that our. Captain having been in this place, within a year 'and few da'yes before, and having rid the pl ace with many alleyes and paths made, yet now all was fo'overgrowne a gaine, as that wedoubted at fitfi, whether this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.