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* For a last and fitting honour to the dead, two 

 vessels of his own fleet and all his last taken prizes 

 were sunk near where he lay, while ashore the fort 

 which the Spaniards had just completed was given 

 to the flames.' (Corbett, Drake and the Tudor Navy, 

 Vol. II., p. 430.) The portrait here reproduced 

 is taken from that in a copy in the British Museum 

 of the Dutch Chart published by Judocus Hondius 

 about 1595.) 



Plan of Santiago, . . . . • .112 



Reproduced from the original in A Summarie and True 

 Discourse of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage 

 in the Grenville Library in the British Museum. 

 The plan shows the English fleet at anchor before 

 the town ; Drake's ship, the ' Elizabeth Bonaven- 

 ture' of 600 tons, distinguishable by the admiral's 

 flag, the Cross of St. George, flown on the main , 

 mast, is shown in the foreground. 



A Spanish Treasure Frigate, . . . .160 



The Spanish Treasure Frigates were specially designed by 

 Pero Menendez Marquez to carry treasure from 

 the West Indies to Spain. 'They are very bigge 

 and excellent of sayle, which will carie 150 men a 

 piece with souldiers and mariners. And having 

 good ordinance, there are fewe or none of our 

 enemies that can offend us. For wee shall both 

 leave and take at all times when we list' (p. 158). 

 The Frigate here represented is * 104 foote by the 

 keele' and '34 foote in bredth ' on the main deck. 

 Her armament consisted of culverins (i8-pounders) 

 on the main deck, demi-culverins (9-pounders) on 

 the upper deck, and falcons (3-pounders) on the 

 spar deck. Forward on a platform on the main 

 deck was * a place of muskett defence for their mus- 

 keters to plaie notwithstanding their great ordnance' 

 — an extremely uncomfortable position, one would 



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