[161] [The coast-survey authorities have usually favored San Francisco. This was the opinion of Alexander Forbes in his California, 1839, where he gives (p. 127) an interesting view of the bay before commerce had marked it. Dr. Stillman, in the Overland Monthly (October, 1868, March, 1869), and later in his Seeking the Golden Fleece (p. 295), has advocated San Francisco. S. G. Drake, in the American Historical Record, August, 1874, took the same view.
Greenhow, in the second edition (1845) of his Oregon and California, p. 74, does not think the question can be definitely settled between San Francisco and Bodega.
There have been many disputes over Jack’s Bay,—the Sir Francis Drake Bay of the maps. Soulé and the writers of the Annals of San Francisco accept it as the spot; so does Kohl. Professor J. D. Whitney (Encyclopædia Britannica, art. “California”) says the evidence points strongly to Jack’s Bay.
Vancouver seems to have reported the story of the Spaniards calling it Sir Francis Drake’s Bay. Captain Beechey thought it too exposed to have deserved Drake’s description; and it has been held he could not have graved his ship in it. It is claimed, however, that Limantour’s Bay, which opens through an inlet westwardly from Jack’s Bay, answers the required conditions of water and shelter.—Ed.]
[162] There are copies in the Library of Congress, and in the New York State, Harvard, Lenox, and Carter-Brown (ii. 263) libraries. Cf. Sabin’s Dictionary, vol. viii. no. 30,957; Field’s Indian Bibliography, no. 667. Hawkins’s voyage is also included in Purchas’s Pilgrimes; and Charles Kingsley in his Westward Ho! pictures vividly the spirit of Hawkins’s day. Cf. also Burney’s History of Voyages in the South Seas.
[163] It is reprinted by Vaux, later mentioned.
[164] They are in the Harvard College, Carter-Brown, and Charles Deane copies, not to name others.
[165] Brinley Catalogue, no. 21; Stevens’s Nuggets, no. 921; Sabin’s Dictionary, no. 20,853. S. G. Drake bought a copy in Boston in 1844 for $4. It was priced by Vaux in 1853 at as many pounds, and is worth much more now. The later editions are worth somewhat less. S. G. Drake (Genealogical Register, i. 126) gives a partial list of those who accompanied Drake, being about one-third of his one hundred and sixty-four men. Among the fullest of the modern narratives are those in Barrow’s Life of Drake, and in Froude’s England, vol. xi. chap. 29. [But Mr. Froude has used his valuable authorities carelessly. He depends in part upon some reports of Spanish officers, which exist in manuscript in Spain, and upon some which are in England, brought home by English cruisers. One of the most interesting, which should still be in the national library in Madrid, I found in 1882 had been cut from the volume and carried away.—E. E. H.]
[166] Carter-Brown Catalogue, ii. 423.
[167] Ibid., ii. 731.