"THE GOLDEN HIND"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)

"THE GOLDEN HIND"

One of the most romantic journeys in history was undertaken in 1577, when Sir Francis Drake, in the Golden Hind, the flagship of the. fleet of five vessels, set out from England to seek adventuro on the high seas. The fleet headed west, to that Eldorado of 6eadogs and buccaneers — the Spanish Main, but, on arrival at the Cape Verde Islands, only the Golden Hind was found seaworthy. Nothing daunted, Sir Francis continued on his way with the one ship. For years it had been his wish to circumnavigate the world, and on this voyago he was determined to achieve his ambition. So the little Golden Hind struggled on southward along the American coast,

then through the Straits of Magellan—ill her wake a trail of plundered cities, for Sir Francis raided and sacked most of the Spanish ports as ho sailed onwards. That great ambition of his was realised, but three weary years of hardship and danger had dragged by before the Golden Hind again reached England, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, badly buffeted by wind and sea, but plunder-laden, there to bo preserved in dry dock as a memorial to the courage and audacity of the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.