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instructing them to break the arrows shot at them, noting that the savages had but a 

 small store. "At the same time he took the piece which had so unhappily missed fire, 

 aimed at the Indian who had killed the gunner, and who was the man who had begun the 

 fray, and shot him in the belly. An arrow wound, however severe, the savage would have 

 borne without betraying any indication of pain ; but his cries, upon being thus wounded, 

 were so loud and hideous, that his companions were terrified and fled, though many were 

 then hastening to their assistance. Drake did not pursue them, but hastened to convey 

 Winter to the ship for speedy help; no help, however, availed, and he died on the second 

 day. The gunner's body, which had been left on shore, was sent for the next day ; 

 the savages, meantime, had stripped it, as if for the sake of curiously inspecting it ; the 

 clothes they had laid under the head, and stuck an English arrow in the right eye for 

 mockery. Both bodies were buried in a little island in the harbour."* No farther attempt 

 was made to injure the English, who remained two months in the harbour, but friendly 

 relations were not established. A more serious event was to follow. 



One Master Doughtie was suspected and accused of something worse than ordinary 

 mutiny or insubordination. It is affirmed in a history of the voyage published under 

 the name of Drake's nephew, that Doughtie had embarked on the expedition for the 

 distinct purpose of overthrowing it for his own aggrandisement, to accomplish which he 

 intended to raise a mutiny, and murder the admiral and his most attached followers. 

 Further, it is stated, that Drake was informed of this before he left Plymouth ; but that 

 he would not credit "that a person whom he so dearly loved would conceive such evil 

 purposes against him." Doughtie had been put in possession of the Portuguese prize, 

 but had been removed on a charge of peculation, and it is likely that " resentment, whether 

 for the wrongful charge, or the rightful removal, might be rankling in him ; " at all events, 

 his later conduct, and mutinous words, left no alternative to Drake but to examine him 

 before a properly constituted court, and he seems to have most reluctantly gone even to 

 this length.f He was " found guilty by twelve men after the English manner, and 

 suffered accordingly." " The most indifferent persons in the fleet," says Southey, " were 

 of opinion that he had acted seditiously, and that Drake cut him off because of his emulous 

 designs. The question is, how far those designs extended ? He could not aspire to the 

 credit of the voyage without devising how to obtain for himself some more conspicuous 

 station in it than that of a gentleman volunteer ; if he regarded Drake as a rival, he must 

 have hoped to supplant, or at least to vie with him ; and in no other way could he have 

 vied with him but by making off with one of the ships, and trying his own fortune" 

 (which was afterwards actually accomplished by others). Doughtie was condemned to death. 

 "And he," says a writer, quoted by Hakluyt, "seeing no remedy but patience for himself, 

 desired before his death to receive the communion; which he did at the hands of Master 

 Fletcher, our minister, and our general himself accompanied him in that holy action; 



* Various authorities cited by Southey. 



t The various slanders thrown on Drake's name in connection with this occurrence seem to have had no 

 foundation in fact. Some of his enemies averred that he sailed from England with instructions from the Earl of 

 Leicester to get rid of Doughtie at the first opportunity, because the latter had reported that Essex had been 

 poisoned by the former's means. But Drake appears to have been really attached to him. 



