With Drake on the Spanish Main

The Spaniard swung round.
HERBERT STRANG
ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR BY ARCHIBALD WEBB
LONDON HENRY FROWDE HODDER & STOUGHTON 1908
OXFORD: HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
Copyright, 1907, by the BOBBS MERRILL COMPANY in the United States of America
The romancer, in choosing as the setting for a tale the period of a man who looms large in history, finds himself on the horns of a dilemma. He cannot place his fictional near his historical hero without either dwarfing the former until the young reader ceases to find him interesting, or robbing the latter of some of the glamour with which history invests him.
In the following pages I have tried to meet the difficulty by making Francis Drake the presiding genius of the story. The deeds of Dennis Hazelrig are akin to those of Drake; the same spirit of adventure dominates them: and when, in the course of the story, the real and the fictitious personages meet, it is, I trust, without loss of dignity to either.
HERBERT STRANG.
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