210 =F. L. Berthoud—Sir Francis Drake's Anchorage. 
Thus, returning with “propitious windes,” our clerical nar- 
rator tells us it took them to June 17, 1579, to reach on the coast 
the parallel of 38° 30’ north latitude, “a convenient and fit har- 
brough,” as Fletcher calls it. 
We can say ‘here that Fetcher’s bay. with the “ vile, stinking 
fogges,” which he says was in 48° north latitude, must be con- 
sidered as an error made by him in place of 45° latitude. 
Greenhow, in his discussion on the Oregon question years ago, 
comments on the discrepancy of time between Drake’s rapid 
journey northward and the twelve days’ time it took the Admiral 
to sail back to the 388° 30’ point with favoring wind. 
Prior, in his Collection of Voyages, a well known English work, 
plainly says Drake went to 45° north latitude, then sailed back 
south to 38° latitude. 
That this is no surmise on our part as to wind and weather, 
Fletcher himself says the bay was a most uncomfortable spot 
for them, and they were driven south to find a better place of 
anchorage. 
After carefully comparing Fletcher’s and Pretty’s narratives, 
it is evident Drake landed somewhere on the coast of California, 
but where, is the point of discussion. When, however, we con- 
sider the cold and frost experienced by them, the confusion of 
latitudes given, their northing and abrupt return, we cannot give 
much weight to their latitudes, taken in the storms and fogs that 
beset that coast, and that their observations and dead reckoning 
were not even close approximations, nor can we believe such a 
magnificent bay and harbor as that of San Francisco could have 
been so slightingly mentioned by him in the way he narrates, so 
that the “ fit and convenient harbor and fair bay ” could not be 
the bay of San Francisco. 
Bryant, in his History of the United States, discusses the prob- 
able location of Drake’s harbor on the coast of California, and 
gives from Hondius a map of his anchorage, which has a strong 
resemblance to Bodega bay and Romanzoff point, now known as 
Bodega head. 
Winsor’s Narrative and Critical History of the United States 
enters largely and interestingly into this subject—a résumé of 
the arguments advanced on this mooted point—adding to the 
hitherto scanty cartography of Drake’s discovery a copy of Dud- 
ley’s map, the Arcano del Mare. Dudley's map we think but 
little elucidates the question. It indicates certain bays and 
