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southward, and, in the quaint language of the times, "fell in 

 with the uttermost part of the land towards the South Pole, 

 where the Atlantic Ocean and the South Sea meet in a large 

 and free scope." He saw the cape since called Cape Horn, 

 and anchored there : he gave the name of Elizabethides to all 

 the islands lying in the neighborhood. As he neither doubled 

 nor named this cape, it remained for the daring navigators 

 Schouten and Lemaire to demonstrate its importance, by pass- 

 ing around it from one ocean into the other, which Drake, it 

 will be observed, had not done. He went ashore, however, and, 

 leaning over a rock which extended the farthest into the sea, 

 returned to the ship and told the crew that he had been farther 

 south than any man living. He anchored at the island of 

 Mocha on the 29th of November, having coasted for four weeks 

 to the northward along the South American shore. He landed 

 with ten men, and was attacked by the Indians, who took them 

 for Spaniards. Two of his men were killed, all of them dis- 

 abled, and he himself badly wounded with an arrow under the 

 right eye. Not one of the assailants was hurt. Drake made 

 no attempt to take vengeance for this unprovoked attack, as it 

 was evident it was begun under the mistaken idea that they 

 were Spaniards, whose atrocities had made every native of the 

 country their enemy. He sailed for Peru on the same day. 



Early in December he learned, from an Indian who was found 

 fishing in his canoe, that he had passed twenty miles beyond 

 the port of Valhario, — now Valparaiso ; and that in this port lay 

 a Spanish ship well laden. Drake sailed for this place, where 

 he found the ship riding at anchor, with eight Spaniards and 

 three negroes on board. These, taking the new-comers for 

 friends, — for the Spaniards had never yet seen an enemy in 

 this ocean, — welcomed them with drum and trumpet, and 

 opened a jar of Chili wine in which to drink their health. 

 Thomas Moore, the former captain of the Christopher pinnace, 

 was the first to board the unsuspecting craft. He laid lustily 



