title: The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580
author: Samuel Bawlf
description: "A fresh and compelling account of Elizabethan intrigue."<br /><br />A fresh and compelling account of Elizabethan intrigue. (James P. Delgado, author of "Across the Top of the World")
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  # SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED
  
    
    
  
  ## Edited by Philip Nichols
  
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  PREPARER'S NOTE  
    
  This text was originally prepared from a 1910 edition,  
  published by P F  
  Collier & Son Company, New York. It included this note:  
    
  Faithfully taken out of the report of Master Christopher Ceely,  
  Ellis Hixom, and others, who were in the same Voyage with him  
  By Philip Nichols, Preacher  
  Reviewed by Sir Francis Drake himself  
  Set forth by Sir Francis Drake, Baronet (his nephew)  
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  ## Contents
  
    
  
  [INTRODUCTORY NOTE](text00000.html#filepos0000001494)
  
  [ **SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED** ](text00000.html#filepos0000011439)
  
    
    
  
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  ## SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED
  
    
  
  ## INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  
  Sir Francis Drake, the greatest of the naval adventurers of England of the
  time of Elizabeth, was born in Devonshire about 1540. He went to sea early,
  was sailing to the Spanish Main by 1565, and commanded a ship under Hawkins in
  an expedition that was overwhelmed by t