Drake, Francis, family and boyhood of, 139; with Hawkins in West Indies, 139; cruises Spanish Main (1570-1573), 140-141; seizes one million pounds in silver from Spanish at Nombre de Dios, 141-142; first views Pacific Ocean, 143-144; attacks gold train at Venta Cruz, 144-145; returns to England, 146; Queen Elizabeth and, 146; starts on historic cruise (1577), 147; Doughty's trial and execution, 148-149, 168; enters Pacific through Straits of Magellan, 150; driven south by storm, 151-153; discovers Cape Horn, 153; piratical voyage of, up South American coast, 153-155; captures _Glory of the South Seas_, 158; plans to return home by Northeast Passage, 158-159; landfall north of California, 159-161, 168; gives up idea of Northeast Passage, 161; visits California, 161-162, 169; welcomed by Indians, 162-163, 169-170; crowning of, 164; calls region "New Albion," 164; returns to England around Cape of Good Hope (1580), 165; subsequent career of, 166; death and burial of, 166-167, 171; authorities for, 167 n. Drake, John, 141, 142, 157. Drake's Bay, 162, 281. Drusenin, Alexei, otter hunter, 81, 84; winters at Oonalaska, 88-91; murdered by natives, 91-92. E East Cape, 195, 208-209. _Elizabeth_, Drake's vessel, 147, 148; returns to England, 152. Elizabeth, Queen, and Drake, 146. Elliott, cited, 72 n., 295. Ellis, explorer, 174-175. Equator, rites on crossing, 182, 216. Eskimo Indians, Russian explorers hear about, 6. _See_ Aleut _and_ Kolosh Indians. F Fages, Don Pedro, cited, 241. Fairweather Mountains, 189. Fletcher, Francis, Drake's chaplain, 149, 154 n., 167; chronicle of, quoted, 161, 165, 167 n.-171 n. Foggy Island (Ukamok), 29, 192. Folger, sailor with Gray, 230. Formosa, Benyowsky in, 127. Fort Defence, 233, 325. Franklin, Benjamin, Benyowsky's meeting with, 128 n. Fraser River, Vancouver misses discovering, 272-273. Friendly Cove, 276, 278. Frobisher, Martin, 159. Fuca, Juan de, 173, 174, 184, 264, 272; account of legend of, concerning Northeast Passage, 275 n. Fuca Straits. _See_ Straits of Fuca. G Galiano, Don, 272-273. Gama, John de, 6 n. Gamaland, mythical continent, 6, 9, 168, 173; Bering's conclusion concerning non-existence of, 12, 18; on D'Isles' map, 19; Bering's second voyage in search of, 22-23; search for, relinquished, 24-25; Cook demolishes myth of, 181. Garret, John, 141. _Glory of the South Seas_, Spanish galleon, 155, 156, 157; captured by Drake, 158. Glottoff, Stephen, 88, 96; Korovin rescued by, 104. Gmelin, scientist, 14 n., 295 n. _Golden Hind_, Drake renames the _Pelican_ the, 150; cruise on the Pacific in, 151-165; end of, 166. Gore, Cook's lieutenant, 190. Gorelin, Russian sailor, 87, 91 n.