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id: 19589
author: Bigges, Walter
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title:
  A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine.

summary:
  In the meane time the Gouernour of GALLISIA had reared such forces as he might, his numbers by estimate vvere some two thowsand foot, and three hundred horse, and marched from BAYON to this part of the countrey, vvhich lay in sight of our Fleete, vvhere making stand, he sent to parle vvith our Generall, vvhich vvas graunted by our Generall, so it might be in boates vpon the vvater: and for safetie of their persons, there vvere pledges deliuered on both sides, vvhich done, the Gouernour of GALLISIA put him selfe vvith two others into our Vice-Admirals Skiffe, the same hauing bene sent to the shore for him. Now to the satisfying of some men, who maruel greatly that such a famous and goodly builded Citie so vvell inhabited of gallant people, very brauely apparelled (vvhereof our souldiers found good store for their reliefe) should afoord no greater riches then vvas found there, vvherein it is to be vnderstood that the Indian people, which were the naturals of this vvhole Island of HISPANIOLA (the same being neare hand as great as England) were many yeares since cleane consumed by the tyrannie of the Spaniards, vvhich vvas cause, that for lacke of people to vvorke in the Mines, the gold and siluer Mines of this Island are vvholy giuen ouer, and thereby they are faine in this Island to vse copper money, whereof vvas found verie great quantitie.


id: 3334
author: Bigges, Walter
title: Drake's Great Armada
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words: 13887
sentence: 323
flesch: 54
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summary:
  And so we being once seized and assured of that, they were content to suffer us to lodge within their town, and themselves to go to their wives, whom they had carried into other places of the country before our coming thither. This town, though not half so big as St. Domingo, gives, as you see, a far greater ransom, being in very deed of far more importance, by reason of the excellency of the harbour, and the situation thereof to serve the trade of Nombre de Dios and other places, and is inhabited with far more richer merchants.


id: 36201
author: Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming)
title: Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579
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words: 22942
sentence: 1051
flesch: 68
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summary:
  [103] These burnt offerings are ascribed to the Trinidad Bay Yurok by Wagner (_Drake's Voyage_, p. 157), but there is no need to look so far afield for parallels when the Coast Miwok-Pomo area fits the case so well. Modern Coast Miwok offers a close parallel in the form of _notcáto mu_, which may be literally translated stay over there, or stay away (_notca_, farther, yonder).


id: 2854
title: Sir Francis Drake Revived
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words: 29169
sentence: 653
flesch: 56
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summary:
  Some thought, that It was most necessary to seek supply of victuals, that we might the better be able to keep our men close and in health till our time came: and this way easy to be compassed, because the frigates with victuals went without great defence, whereas the frigates and barks with treasure, for the most part were wafted with great ships and store of soldiers. This report had his ground from one DIEGO a Negro, who, in the time of the first conflict, came and called to our pinnaces, to know whether they were Captain DRAKE'S?


id: 29304
author: Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)
title: In the Days of Drake
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words: 38315
sentence: 1963
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Yes, sir, yes; your uncle, good man, is well, though he hath never been the same man since you disappeared, Master Humphrey. For there were men in those days who achieved world-wide fame, such as Drake, Frobisher, Hawkins, Raleigh, Grenville, and Gilbert--but there were also other men, the rough sea-dogs of that time, whose names have never been remembered, or even recorded, and who were yet heroes of a quality not inferior to their commanders and leaders.


id: 12855
author: Wood, William
title: Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
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words: 52961
sentence: 2537
flesch: 75
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summary:
  The ignorant and thoughtless, both then and since, mistook this fight, and another like it in 1590, to mean that English merchantmen could beat off Spanish men-of-war. The Cabots did great things though they were not great men.


id: 38795
author: Strang, Herbert
title: With Drake on the Spanish Main
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sentence: 4426
flesch: 82
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summary:
  You are all good men and true, but 'tis my misfortune I am not so well acquainted with you as I hope to be. and if I may be so bold, I say let these our comrades, good men and true, as you yourself did say, choose among themselves two to serve as mates aboard the vessel.


id: 15299
author: Runciman, Walter Runciman, Baron
title: Drake, Nelson and Napoleon
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words: 93937
sentence: 3494
flesch: 65
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summary:
  This is a form of cant to which those whom we regard as great men are a prey. Troubridge was audaciously requested to appoint a hangman (it may be he was asked to combine this with his other naval duties), and knowing the fine sense of noble dignity in the average sailor, we can easily imagine the flow of adjectives that accompanied the refusal, and how he would relate the outrage to which he had been subjected in quarterdeck language, that need not be here repeated, to his superior officer, Admiral Nelson, who must have felt the degradation of being selected to carry out as dirty a piece of work as ever devolved upon a public servant.


id: 19206
author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
title: Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
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words: 108628
sentence: 4299
flesch: 75
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summary:
  Accustomed as the young men were to see great Spanish ships taken by single boats, and a whole fleet submissive before one ship, it seemed to them that with such an armament they could destroy the whole navies of Spain, and even then that little glory would be divided between each vessel. Sir Francis threw himself into the center of the Spanish lines, followed by many other English ships, and thus separated several of the great galleons from their consorts, and then fell to work battering them.


id: 62184
author: Corbett, Julian Stafford
title: For God and Gold
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words: 116187
sentence: 5173
flesch: 83
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summary:
  The preachers alone seemed in earnest; for they, good men, had suffered much, and this thing that we were now upon must have seemed too serious and heaven-sent for idle gaiety. That was what the scholar Said to the sailor; ay, and honestly believed it too.


