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"To this great ship, which round the world has run And matched in race the chariot of the sun; · · · · · Drake and his ship could ne'er have wished from fate A happier station or more blest estate; For lo, a seat of endless rest is given To her in Oxford and to him in Heaven." |
Sir Francis Drake died at sea in 1596.
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"The waves became his winding sheet, the waters were his tomb, But for his fame the ocean sea was not sufficient room." |
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"THE UNROLLING OF THE CLOUDS"—V. The world as known after its circumnavigation by Sir Francis Drake in the years 1577-1580. |
CHAPTER XXXV
DAVIS STRAIT
But even while Drake was sailing round the world, and Frobisher's search for a north-west passage had been diverted into a quest for gold, men's minds were still bent on the achievement of reaching Cathay by some northern route. A discourse by Sir Humphrey Gilbert to prove the existence of a passage by the north-west to Cathay and the East Indies, in ten chapters, was much discussed, and the Elizabethan seamen were still bent on its discovery.