FRANCIS DRAKE. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



ORIGIN OF ENGLISH PIRACY — SIR JOHN HAWKINS FRANCIS DRAKE HIS FIRS1 



VOYAGE TO THE SPANISH MAIN — COMMISSION GRANTED BY QUEEN ELIZABETH 

 — EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SPANISH POSSESSIONS — EXPLOITS AT MOGADOR 



AND SANTIAGO CROSSING THE LINE ARRIVAL IN PATAGONIA — TRIAL AND 



EXECUTION OF DOUGHTY PASSAGE THROUGH MAGELLAN'S STRAIT ADVEN- 

 TURES OF WILLIAM PITCHER AND SEVEN MEN CAPE HORN ARRIVAL AT 



VALPARAISO RIFLING OF A CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



We have thus shown that, while the Spanish and Portuguese 

 had succeeded triumphantly in their maritime expeditions, the 

 English had disastrously failed in theirs. The tropics were held 

 in exclusive possession by the two former nations ; and the only two 

 known routes by which ships could sail thither were also in their 



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