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FRANCIS DRAKE

ON THE

NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA

IN THE YEAR 1579

THE GOLDEN HINDE DID NOT ANCHOR IN

THE BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO

GEORGE DAVIDSON
President Geographical Society of the Pacific

Read by Title, February 29, 1908
Transactions and Proceedings of the Geographical Society
of the Pacific

VOLUME V, SERIES II

1908

PROFESSOR GEORGE DAVIDSON, PH. D., Sc. D. (University of California)

Francis Drake on the Northwest Coast

of America in the Year 1579

The Golden Hinde Did Not Anchor in the Bay of

San Francisco.

GEORGE DAVIDSON.

CONTENTS.

Personal and Introductory

The Geographic authorities available for Francis Drake's under-
taking in the South Seas..

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Early English authorities that have given an account of Drake's

voyage,

1577-1580.

11

The World Encompassed.

19

What circumstances may have prompted the last century claim

that Drake reached the latitude of 48°.

23

Late authorities who assert Francis Drake reached the latitude of

48° on the northwest coast of America; or anchored in the

Bay of San Francisco.

THE AUTHORITIES IN DETAIL.

Did Drake discover the northwest coast from the 40th to the 48th

parallel.
Clements R. Markham

Some of the Characteristics of Drake......James Anthony Froude

The purpose of Engraving the Silver Map of the World and the

Date thereof; The Map of 1587; Drake's Expedition of

1585-86..
Miller Christy

29

33

38

64

Names of Places on the Western Coast of America recorded in

the narratives of Drake's cruise from Terra del Fuego to

Albion...

73

Drake upon the Coast of Central America and Mexico, March

15th to April 16th 1579; The seizure of Spanish Documents

and Sea Charts..

77