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Under Drake’s Flag

CHAPTER 18: San Francisco Bay
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All the people of the country having wounds, shrunken limbs, or diseases of any kind were brought down to be cured; and the people were much grieved that an instantaneous cure could not be effected, but that our men proceeded, by the application of lotions, plasters, and unguents, to benefit those who had anticipated immediate remedy.
Altogether, the account given by the voyagers of the people of this part of America is most favorable They appear to have been of a tractable, free, and loving nature, without guile or treachery.
They were finely built men, and one of them could carry easily, uphill and down, a weight which two or three Englishmen could scarcely lift.

They were swift at running, and could catch a fish in the sea, if it were in water within their depth.
When the ship was repaired, the admiral, with many of his officers, made a journey into the interior, and found that it was a goodly country, with a very fruitful soil.

There were many thousands of large and fair deer, grazing in herds.

This country was christened, by the admiral, Albion; partly from the color of its cliffs, partly in remembrance of his country.

On the shore a monument was set up, and on it a plate of brass was affixed, engraven with the Queen's name, the date of the arrival of the ship, and of the free giving up of the province and kingdom into her majesty's hand; and a piece of current English money was fastened beneath a hole made in the brass plate, so that it might remain as a proof that the English had taken possession of this land, to which the Spaniards had never approached.
As the stores were being taken on board again, and the natives saw the preparations for embarkation, the joy with which the arrival of these white beings had been received was changed into sorrow, and all the people went about mourning and crying.


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