CHAPTER XXVII. 



DRAKE'S EXPLOIT WITH A SLEEPING SPANIARD — HIS ACHIEVEMENTS AT CALLAO 



BATTLE WITH A TREASURE-SHIP DRAKE GIVES A RECEIPT FOR HER CARGO 



INDITES A TOUCHING EPISTLE HIS PLANS FOR RETURNING HOME FRESH 



CAPTURES PERFORMANCES AT GUATULCO AND ACAPULCO DRAKE DISMISSES 



HIS PILOT EXCEEDING COLD WEATHER DRAKE REGARDED AS A GOD BY THE 



CALIFORNIANS SAILS FOR THE MOLUCCAS VISITS TERNATE AND CELEBES 



THE PELICAN UPON A REEF THE RETURN VOYAGE PROTEST OF THE SPANISH 



AMBASSADOR HE STYLES DRAKE THE MASTER-THIEF OF THE UNKNOWN WORLD 



QUEEN ELIZABETH ON BOARD THE PELICAN DRAKE'S USE OF HIS FORTUNE 



HIS DEATH THE VOYAGE OF JOHN DAVIS TO THE NORTHWEST. 



A fortnight after leaving Valparaiso, Drake anchored at 



the mouth of the Coquimbo. The watering party sent ashore 



had barely time to escape from a body of five hundred horse and 



foot. At another place, called Tarapaca, the waterers found a 



Spaniard lying asleep, and took from him thirteen bars of silver 



of the value of four thousand ducats. Southey states, as if it 



were a trait of magnanimity, that no personal injury was offered 



to the sleeping man. They next captured eight lamas, each 



carrying a hundred pounds of silver. At Arica they found two 



ships at anchor, a single negro being on board of each : from 



the one they took forty bars of silver, and from the other two 



hundred jars of wine. As the Pelican was more than a match for 



the two negroes, the latter wisely offered no resistance. Drake 



arrived at Callao, the port of Lima, — Lima being the capital of 



Peru, — before it was known that an enemy's ship had entered 



the waters of the Pacific. He immediately boarded a bark laden 



with silk, which he consented to leave unmolested on condition 



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