D'Isles, the, geographers, [19], [20], [52].
Distress Cove, [228].
Dixon, George, [78], [209], [227], [254], [290] n.
Dobbs, patron of exploration, [174].
Dobbs, vessel for exploration, [174].
Doughty, Thomas, [147]; trial and execution of, [148-149], [168].
Douglas, Captain, [223-226].
Dragon, Drake's vessel, [140].
Drake, Francis, family and boyhood of, [139]; with Hawkins in West Indies, [139]; cruises Spanish Main (1570-1573), [140-141]; seizes one million pounds in silver from Spanish at Nombre de Dios, [141-142]; first views Pacific Ocean, [143-144]; attacks gold train at Venta Cruz, [144-145]; returns to England, [146]; Queen Elizabeth and, [146]; starts on historic cruise (1577), [147]; Doughty's trial and execution, [148-149], [168]; enters Pacific through Straits of Magellan, [150]; driven south by storm, [151-153]; discovers Cape Horn, [153]; piratical voyage of, up South American coast, [153-155]; captures Glory of the South Seas, [158]; plans to return home by Northeast Passage, [158-159]; landfall north of California, [159-161], [168]; gives up idea of Northeast Passage, [161]; visits California, [161-162], [169]; welcomed by Indians, [162-163], [169-170]; crowning of, [164]; calls region "New Albion," [164]; returns to England around Cape of Good Hope (1580), [165]; subsequent career of, [166]; death and burial of, [166-167], [171]; authorities for, [167] n.