The Story of Sir Francis Drake
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" But he also encouraged them to bestir themselves, and he himself set the example, and got the pumps to work, and freed the ship of water. The ship was fast upon "hard and pinching rocks, and did tell us plain she expected continually her speedy despatch as soon as the sea and winds should come ... So that if we stay with her we must perish with her. " The other plan, of leaving her for the pinnace, seemed to them "worse than a thousand deaths. " After taking the Communion and listen ing to a ...sermon, they eased the ship by casting goods into the sea "three ton of cloves, eight big guns, and certain meal and beans " ; making, as an old writer says, a kind of gruel of the sea round about. After they had been in this state from eight o'clock at night till four o'clock next afternoon, all in a moment the wind changed, and "the happy gale drove them off the rocks again, and made of them glad men. " The rest of the homeward voyage was less adventurous, and on the i8th of June 68 THE STORY OF DRAKE they passed the Cape of Good Hope, "a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" But he also encouraged them to bestir themselves, and he himself set the example, and got the pumps to work, and freed the ship of water. The ship was fast upon "hard and pinching rocks, and did tell us plain she expected continually her speedy despatch as soon as the sea and winds should come ... So that if we stay with her we must perish with her. " The other plan, of leaving her for the pinnace, seemed to them "worse than a thousand deaths. " After taking the Communion and listen ing to a ...sermon, they eased the ship by casting goods into the sea "three ton of cloves, eight big guns, and certain meal and beans " ; making, as an old writer says, a kind of gruel of the sea round about. After they had been in this state from eight o'clock at night till four o'clock next afternoon, all in a moment the wind changed, and "the happy gale drove them off the rocks again, and made of them glad men. " The rest of the homeward voyage was less adventurous, and on the i8th of June 68 THE STORY OF DRAKE they passed the Cape of Good Hope, "a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth.
What to read after The Story of Sir Francis Drake?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Letitia Maccoll Elton to read onlineMoreLess
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