connections, boasted that he had consu lted w ith Lord Burghley, Elizabeth 's senior counselor. This was a bad slip. Drake, enraged, shouted that the Queen had ordered that the voyage was to be kept secret from Burghley, a conservative com mitred to a policy of appeasemem of Spain. This rings v ry true. Ocher charges fo llowed, makin g up a pattern of treacherous insubordination, which endangered the squadro n, its miss ion and every soul involved. The jury found Doughty guilty. Doughty apologized for hi s faults and reconciled himself to Drake. They had a farewe ll supper together, "each cheering up the other, and taking their leave, by drinking to each other as if some journey only had been in ha nd." Doughty then took Communion, kneeling side by side with Drake, and was duly beheaded . So passed from the scene a troubled sou l, a man whose fate it was to m ake trouble, perhaps without realizing rhe consequences of his ac ts. But everyone, including Drake, felt that Doughty had faced chose consequences bravely at the end. The ships' people remained uneasy as the three vessels tugged at their anchors in the unending succession of ga les and snow squall s that swept over the naked, barren la nd scape. D oughty's execution stopped the threatening cabal of gentlemen and courtiers in the fleet by showing plainly that his was a losing game; it did nor cure persistem doubts and unrest. Again Drake decided to acc. Ca lling all the ships' compa nies as hore o n Sund ay, he gathered them to hear him speak on "some matter of importance." The Beet chaplain, Francis Fletcher, offered to preach a sermon. "Nay, soft, Master Fletcher," said Drake, motioning him aside, "I must preach this day myself." "Masters," he started OU(, "I am a very bad orator, for my bringing up has not been in learning ... " But he advised all hands to listen, for he stood ready to answer for everything he said back in England and w the Quee n herself. He reminded them that they were "very far from our country and friends wherefore we are not to make small reckoning of a man, for we cannot have a man if we would give for him ten thousand pounds." He called for a n end to the "comroversy between the sai lors and the gentlemen," and went on to make the fa mous statement that was to become a core doctrine of the Royal Navy, o ne which echoes down through the intervening centuries wit h a fresh force and vitality today: But my m asters, I must have it left, for I must have the gentleman to haul a nd draw with the m a riner, and the mariner w ith the gemleman. What, let us sow ourselves to be of a company, and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overth row. "I wou ld know him that wo uld refuse to set his hand to a rope," he added, "but I know there is not any such here. And, indeed, if there was any such person on that desolate beach, he did not speak up then, or at any time from then on in the voyage. It is from John Cooke, a carefu l w riter who sa iled with W inter in the Elizabeth, that we have these words from Drake. It is from Cooke also that we have the full proceedings of the Doughty tri al, in recording, in wh ich Cooke was clearly a nxious nor to give offense to Doughty's fri ends back to England . Drake's force of SEA HISTORY 143, SUMMER 20 13
character simply bursts through these constraints of time, space, and interpretation-it seems to have worked a simil ar m agic on the men. " The Intolerable Tempest" And so on 17 August, risking a passage in the dead of the Antarctic winter, the Pelican, the Elizabeth, and the Marigold sa iled our of Port San Ju li an. Three days lacer they raised the Cape of the Virgins, which marked the emrance to the much-feared Strait of Magellan. This was as far as the knowledge of their Portuguese pilot, N uiio da Silva, ran. They had picked him up in the Cape Verdes, and he had helped their coastal piloting to thi s point. Few seamen, however, had gone through the Strait of Magellan and come home to tell the tale. Drake, w ith hi s customary sense of ceremony, struck his topsai ls in sa lute to E lizabeth, the Virgin Queen , and took the occasion to rename the Pelican as the Golden Hind. The name honored Sir C hristopher H arton, whose fa mil y crest was a hind-an old term for a female deer. H arton was a patron of the voyage and had employed Thomas Doughty, the man Drake had executed a few weeks ea rlier. Sternly practical reasons for the choice of this delightful name show through this gesture, as such reasons show through many of Drake's most elega m aces.
Drake's Golden Hind
The three ships ran through the srrair in the remarkably fast tim e of 16 days, which was lo ng a record. This, however, was the end of their peaceful sailing. On 7 September, two days into the Pacific, the ocean Magellan had named Mar Pacifi co (a nd which Fletcher said were better named "Mare Furisum"), the squad ron ran imo an appalling storm out of the northeast, which raged almost w ithout intermission fo r the next 52 days. Runnin g before its violence, the squadron was driven far to the SOLl(h, where on 30 September the Marigold was lost with all hands. Last seen "spoom ing along before the sea," she beca me rhe first of a long count of ships lost with their people in the bitter seas off Cape Horn. Struggling back north in somewhat moderated wea ther, the sur viving Golden H ind a nd Elizabeth took shelter and anchored in a cove a little north of the Pacific entra nce of rhe Strait of Magellan. But rhe gale, reviving, hit them with such violence
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