...author of Sir Francis Drake Revisited writes, "After our Captain had ascended to this bower, he besought Almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship on that sea." And perhaps at that very moment, peering out at the shimmering new ocean, he conceived...

...episode, in which Drake climbed the lofty tree to see the Pacific .ind the Atlantic oceans and 'besought Almighty God of his goodness to give him life and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea' (Nichols, p. 300). Drake's venture into the Pacific led to his circumnavigation from November 1577...

...(esp. 303-4), ' All men of good understanding, he declares, will condemn such desperate ignorance,' and leave to sail once in an English ship in that sea,' has been iustly seized upon by all who have studied Elizabethan history with any intelligence. It is...