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Chart of Cape Horn, 112 



This chart Is taken from a manuscript (Sloane MSS. 61) 

 in the British Museum. It shows the southern part 

 of Patagonia, with Magellan Straits and the islands 

 of Tierra del Fuego, with the open sea to the south. 

 The manuscript, written in 1577, purports to be 

 *an exact copy of the originall to a haire* of the 

 notes * written and faithfully layed downe by 

 Ffrancis Ffletcher, Minister of Christ and Preacher 

 of the Gospell, adventurer and traveller in the 

 same voyage' [Drake's circumnavigation]. The 

 copy is by *Jo. Conyers, Cittizen and Apothecary 

 of London.' It was at the * Insulae Elizabethides ' 

 that the incident narrated by Sir Richard Hawkins 

 in his Observations took place, when Drake, * going 

 ashoare, carried a Compasse with him, and seeking 

 out the Southermost part of the Hand, cast himselfe 

 downe upon the uttermost point groveling, and 

 so reached out his bodie over it. Presently he 

 imbarked, and then recounted unto his people, that 

 he had beene upon the Southermost knowne Land 

 in the World, and more further to the Southwards 

 upon it, then any of them, yea, or any man as yet 

 knowne.' 



Sir Christopher Hatton, . . . . .136 



Sir Christopher Hatton was born at Holdenby, North- 

 amptonshire, in 1540. He entered St. Mary Hall, 

 Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, but took no 

 degree. In November, 1559, ^^ ^^^ admitted to 

 the Society of the Inner Temple. As the portrait 

 shows, he was a tall and handsome man, and he 

 was noted for his graceful dancing. He quickly 

 attracted Queen Elizabeth's attention, and became 

 one of her gentlemen pensioners in 1564. In 

 1568 he was appointed Keeper of the Parks at 

 Eltham and Home, and in 1572 Captain of the 

 Queen's Bodyguard. In October, 1573, Sir John 

 Hawkins, being mistaken for Sir Christopher 

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