_Discovery_, vessel commanded by Captain Clerke, in Cook's voyage, 181.
D'Isles, the, geographers, 19, 20, 52.
Distress Cove, 228.
Dixon, George, 78, 209, 227, 254, 290 n.
Dobbs, patron of exploration, 174.
_Dobbs_, vessel for exploration, 174.
Doughty, Thomas, 147; trial and execution of, 148-149, 168.
Douglas, Captain, 223-226.
_Dragon_, Drake's vessel, 140.
Drake, Francis, family and boyhood of, 139; with Hawkins in West Indies,
139; cruises Spanish Main (1570-1573), 140-141; seizes one million pounds
in silver from Spanish at Nombre de Dios, 141-142; first views Pacific
Ocean, 143-144; attacks gold train at Venta Cruz, 144-145; returns to
England, 146; Queen Elizabeth and, 146; starts on historic cruise (1577),
147; Doughty's trial and execution, 148-149, 168; enters Pacific through
Straits of Magellan, 150; driven south by storm, 151-153; discovers Cape
Horn, 153; piratical voyage of, up South American coast, 153-155;
captures _Glory of the South Seas_, 158; plans to return home by
Northeast Passage, 158-159; landfall north of California, 159-161, 168;
gives up idea of Northeast Passage, 161; visits California, 161-162, 169;
welcomed by Indians, 162-163, 169-170; crowning of, 164; calls region
"New Albion," 164; returns to England around Cape of Good Hope (1580),
165; subsequent career of, 166; death and burial of, 166-167, 171;
authorities for, 167 n.
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