Seven of the traders
lost their lives in Drake's attack.
[4] The _Hakluyt Society Proceedings_, 1854, give all details of this
terrible crime. Fletcher, the chaplain, thought Doughty innocent; but
Drake considered the chaplain "the falsest knave that liveth."
[5] Don Francisco de Zarate, commander of a Spanish ship scuttled by
Drake off Guatalco, gives this description to the Spanish government of
the Englishman's equipage: "The general of the Englishmen is the same
who five years ago took Nombre de Dios, about thirty-five years old,
short, with a ruddy beard, one of the greatest mariners there are on
the sea, alike for his skill and power of command. His ship is a
galleon of four hundred tons, a very fast sailer, and there are aboard
her, one hundred men, all skilled hands and of warlike age, and all so
well trained that they might be old soldiers--they keep their
harquebusses clean. He treats them with affection, they him with
respect. He carries with him nine or ten gentlemen cadets of high
families in England. These are his council. He calls them together,
tho' he takes counsel of no one.
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