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of San Francisco Bay and near Point de los Reyes, 

 two important means of identification being * the 

 white bankes and clifFes which lie towards the sea,' 

 and the gophers or pouched rats, * a strange kind of 

 conies, having under her chinne on either side a 

 bag, into the which she gathereth her meate, when 

 she hath filled her bellie abroad' (Page 123). In the 

 upper right-hand corner the * Golden Hind ' is seen 

 in the harbour of Java Major. In the lower left- 

 hand medallion the * Golden Hind ' is being towed 

 to a good anchorage off Ternate by the king's canoes. 

 Whilst the ship was being towed * our ordinance 

 thundred, which wee mixed with great store of small 

 shot, among which sounding our trumpets and other 

 instruments of musick, both of still and loud noise; 

 wherewith he [the king] was so much delighted, 

 that, requesting our musick to come into the boate, 

 he joyned his Canow to the same, and was towed at 

 least a whole houre together, with the boate at the 

 Sterne of our ship.' 



The dangerous incident of the 9th of January, 

 1579, is shown in the lower right-hand medallion, 

 when the ship * ranne suddenly upon a rocke, where 

 wee stuck fast from 8 of the clocke at night till 

 4 of the clocke in the afternoone of the next day, 

 being indeed out of all hope to escape the danger.' 

 However, by lightening the ship ^ of 3 tunne of 

 cloves, 8. pieces of ordinance, and certaine meale 

 and beanes, and then the winde (as it were in a 

 moment by the speciall grace of God) changing from 

 the starreboord to the larboord of the ship, we 

 hoised our sailes, and the happy gale drove our ship 

 off the rocke into the sea againe.' (Page 129.) 



The Black Pinnace, ...... 400 



This engraving of *The Black Pynnes' is reproduced 

 from a copy of The Procession at the obsequies of Sir 

 Philip Sidney y Knight, drawn and invented by Thomas 

 Lant, Gentleman, London, 1587, in the British 



