explores Atlantic Coast, 12;
enters service of Ferdinand of Spain as Captain of the Sea,' 15;
Charles V makes him 'Chief Pilot and Examiner of Pilots,' 15;
determines longitude of Moluccas, 15;
voyage to South America, 15;
makes a map of the world, 15;
leaves Spain for England(1548), 16;
receives pension from Edward VI, 16;
feasts at Gravesend with the _Serchthrift_, 16-17;
Governor of Muscovy Company, 16, 31;
sailing of the _Serchthrift_, 32;
bibliography, 241

Cadiz, 165 et seq.

California, 137, 138, 212

Canaries, 157, 226

Cape Breton, Cabot reaches (1497), 7

Cape of Good Hope, Vasco da Gama sails around, 18

Cape St. Vincent, Drake plans to capture, 167

Caribs, 80, 158

Carleill, 154, 156, 157, 160

Cartagena, 88, 108 et seq., 156, 159

Cartier, Jacques, second voyage (1535), 12;
discovers St. Lawrence, 71

Cathay, Sebastian Cabot searches for passage to, 11;
Sir Hugh Willoughby tries to find Northeast passage to, 30

Cavendish, Thomas, 212

Cecil, Sir Robert, 206

Charles V of Spain, maritime rival of Henry VIII, 22-25;
his dominions, 23;
feud with France, 23-24;
hostile to England, 29;
Spanish dominion, 71;
father of Don John of Austria, 117

Chesapeake Bay, 220

Cockeram, Martin, 34

Coligny, Admiral, 207

Columbus, Christopher, citizen of Genoa, 1-2;
visit to Iceland, 3;
fame eclipses that of the Cabots, 13;
reasons for his significance, 13;
400th anniversary of his discovery, 14;
replica of the _Santa Maria_, 235

_Complaynt of Scotland_, The, 42

_Cordial Advice_, 40

Corunna, 178, 192

Cosa, Juan de la, makes first dated (1500) map of America, 14

Croatoan Island, 213 et seq.

Crowndale, Drake's birthplace, 95

Cumberland, Earl of, 197

Cuttyhunk Island, 216

Dare, Virginia, 215

_Delight_, The, ship, 209

De Soto, 19, 81

Doughty, Thomas, 116, 120, 123 et seq., 127

_Dragon_, The, ship, 101

Drake, Sir Francis, born the same year as modern sea-power (1545), 28;
on the _Minion_, 92;
Son of Edmund Drake, 95;
boyhood, 96 et seq.;
as lieutenant, on escort to wool-fleet, 100;
marries Mary Newman, 100;
sails on Nombre de Dios expedition, 101 et seq.;
Drake and Nombre de Dios, 104;
sees the Pacific, 110;