Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
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Henty George Alfred. Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
Chapter 1: The Wreck on the Devon Coast
Chapter 2: Friends and Foes
Chapter 3: On the Spanish Main
Chapter 4: An Unsuccessful Attack
Chapter 5: Cast Ashore
Chapter 6: In the Woods
Chapter 7: An Attack in Force
Chapter 8: The Forest Fastness
Chapter 9: Baffled
Chapter 10: Southward Ho!
Chapter 11: The Marvel of Fire
Chapter 12: Across a Continent
Chapter 13: Through the Cordilleras
Chapter 14: On the Pacific Coast
Chapter 15: The Prison of the Inquisition
Chapter 16: The Rescue
Chapter 17: The Golden Hind
Chapter 18: San Francisco Bay
Chapter 19: South Sea Idols
Chapter 20: A Portuguese Settlement
Chapter 21: Wholesale Conversion
Chapter 22: Home
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Three days after the receipt of the letter, Ned Hearne stood with his bundle on the quay at Plymouth. Near him lay a large rowboat from the ships, waiting to take off the last comers. A little way behind, Captain Francis Drake and his brother, Captain John Drake, talked with the notable people of Plymouth, who had come down to bid them farewell; the more since this was a holiday, being Whitsun Eve, the 24th May, and all in the town who could spare time had made their way down to the Hove to watch the departure of the expedition; for none could say how famous this might become, or how great deeds would be accomplished by the two little craft lying there. Each looker on thought to himself that it might be that, to the end of his life, he should tell his children and his children's children, with pride, "I saw Mr. Drake start for his great voyage."
Small, indeed, did the fleet appear, in comparison to the work which it had to do. It was composed of but two vessels. The first, the Pacha, of seventy tons, carrying forty-seven men and boys, was commanded by Captain Francis Drake himself. By her side was the Swanne, of twenty-five tons, carrying twenty-six men and boys, and commanded by Captain John Drake. This was truly but a small affair to undertake so great a voyage.
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"If we had oars, or a sail, we might make a shift to pull the boat into the track they are following, which would give us a chance of being picked up when they again turn west; but as we have neither one nor the other, we are helpless, indeed."
"I do not think," Ned said, "that Captain John or his brother are the men to leave us, without a great effort; and methinks that, when they have sailed over the ground to the point where, at the utmost, we must have parted from them, they will lay by through the night, and search back again, tomorrow."
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