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the loss of many of his best hands. Short of pro- 

 visions and water, deserted by the * Roebuck ' and 

 with only three whole sails left, Cavendish next 

 determined to ' beate for Saint Hellena, and there 

 either to make ourselves happy by mending or 

 ending.' In spite of continuous adverse winds he 

 fetched within two leagues of the Island, but could 

 not make it, * the winde being continually at East- 

 South-east, the most contrary wind that could 

 blow.' He next tried to reach * an Island which 

 the cardes make to be in 8 degrees to the southward 

 of the line,' probably Ascension Island, but * I 

 could by no means finde it, so as I was forced to 

 goe towards England.' He died on the voyage 

 homewards worn out with privations and disappoint- 

 ment. The portrait is taken from the copy in the 

 British Museum of the unique chart engraved by 

 Judocus Hondius about 1595. The chart itself is 

 given at page 336. 



Drake's Drum, . . . . . . .104 



This drum, which now hangs in the hall at Buckland 

 Abbey, is reproduced by permission of Lady Elliot 

 Drake. It bears Drake's arms, and on it the last 

 salute was probably beaten as his body was com- 

 mitted to the sea (Corbett, Drake and the Tudor 

 Navy, I., xi.) The legend connected with the 

 drum forms the subject of Henry Newbolt's 

 ballad Drake's Drum : — 



' Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore. 



Strike et when your powder's runnin' low; 

 If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port o' 

 Heaven, 

 An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed 

 them long ago.' 

 Owing to the frail condition of the drum it was 

 not found possible to remove it from the glass case 

 which protects it, but it is hoped that the interest 

 of the subject will excuse the want of clearness in 

 the reproduction. 



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