[152] [The Spanish minister, indeed, protested against Drake’s piracies and his sailing in those waters; but the English Government made a declaration denying such prescriptive right to the Spaniards, unless it was enforced by possession. Cf. Camden’s History of Elizabeth, 1688, p. 225; Purchas, iv. 1180; Deane’s edition of Hakluyt’s Discourse, 236.—Ed.]

[153] “The course which Sir Francis Drake held to California,” etc.

[154] [Mr. Hale has written of Dudley and his atlas in the American Antiquarian Society’s Proceedings, October 21, 1873. Cf. also the chapter on “New England” in the present volume.—Ed.]

[155] See Editorial Notes following this chapter.

[156] [See a later page.—Ed.]

[157] Colonel John D. Washburn, in a very careful paper in the Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., no. 58, 1872, suspects from Torquemada’s account (1615, published at Seville), as cited in the English version of Father Venegas’s History of California (Field, Indian Bibliography, 1,599, 1,600), that the port visited by Viscaino was Jack’s Bay, as indeed the original Spanish of Venegas (iii. III) distinctly says. Cf. also John T. Doyle’s paper, with an introduction by Colonel Washburn in Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., October, 1873.

[158] [They had learned by this time to avoid the head-winds that swept westerly from Acapulco to Manila, by stretching northeastwardly on the return voyage, making the coast above San Francisco, and so to follow the shore south. Cf. the Key to a section of Molineaux’s map in the Editorial Notes following this chapter.—Ed.]

[159] Sayer and Bennett, 1774. [I find this twenty years earlier, as shown in the annexed sketch from Jefferys’ Chart of California, New Albion, etc., 1753. Key:—

1. C. das Navadas, or Snowy Cape,
2. Punta de los Reys.
3. Les Farollones.
4. Isles of St. James.
5. Port Sr. Francis Drake, 1578, not St. Francisco.
6. Pto. de Anno Novo.—Ed.]

[160] “He does smile his face into more lines than are in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies.”—Act iii, sc. 2. [The map referred to is Molineaux’ map of 1600, and it has been disputed that it was the map alluded to by Shakespeare. See chap. vi., Editorial Note, F. A section showing the point referred to in the text is given further on.—Ed.]