[15] Dampier and Exquemeling.
[16] With reservations. See p. 13, [note].
[17] They had come ashore to get water.
[18] See Charnock's "Marine Architecture."
[19] See Corbett's "Drake and the Tudor Navy."
[20] See Sir W. Monson, "Naval Tracts," and Sir R. Hawkins, "Observations," etc.
[21] or caliver.
[22] This word unclow may be a misprint for uncloy. To uncloy was to get rid of the spike, or soft metal nail, thrust into a piece's touch-hole by an enemy. It was done by oiling the spike all over, so as to make it "glib," and then blowing it out, from within, by a train of powder.
[23] He had to hang out the ship's colours on going into action (Monson).
[24] See "The Sea-man's Grammar," by Captain John Smith.