times.

[3] This halfway station was known as Venta Cruz. Seven of the traders
lost their lives in Drake's attack.

[4] The _Hakluyt Society Proceedings_, 1854, give all details of this
terrible crime. Fletcher, the chaplain, thought Doughty innocent; but
Drake considered the chaplain "the falsest knave that liveth."

[5] Don Francisco de Zarate, commander of a Spanish ship scuttled by
Drake off Guatalco, gives this description to the Spanish government of
the Englishman's equipage: "The general of the Englishmen is the same
who five years ago took Nombre de Dios, about thirty-five years old,
short, with a ruddy beard, one of the greatest mariners there are on
the sea, alike for his skill and power of command. His ship is a
galleon of four hundred tons, a very fast sailer, and there are aboard
her, one hundred men, all skilled hands and of warlike age, and all so
well trained that they might be old soldiers--they keep their
harquebusses clean. He treats them with affection, they him with
respect. He carries with him nine or ten gentlemen cadets of high
families in England. These are his council. He calls them together,
tho' he takes counsel of no one. He has no favorite. These are
admitted to his table, as well as a Portuguese pilot whom he brought
from England. (?) He is served with much plate with gilt borders
engraved with his arms and has all possible kinds of delicacies and
scents, which . . . the Queen gave him. (?) None of the gentlemen sit
or cover in his presence without first being ordered once or even
several times. The galleon carries thirty pieces of heavy ordnance,
fireworks and ammunition. They dine and sup to the music of violins.
He carries carpenters, caulkers, careeners. The ship is sheathed. The
men are paid and not regular pirates. No one takes plunder and the
slightest fault is punished." The don goes on to say that what
troubled him most was that Drake captured Spanish charts of the
Pacific, which would guide other intruders on the Pacific.

[6] The eight castaways in the shallop succeeded in passing back
through the straits. At Plata they were attacked by the Indians; four,
wounded, succeeded in escaping. The others were captured. Reaching
islands off the coast of Patagonia, two of the wounded died. The
remaining two suffered shipwreck on a barren island, where the only
food was fruit; the only drink, the juice of the fruits. Making a raft
of floating planks ten feet