A Drake of course had previously encircled the globe in a voyage of twenty-six months, having set forth from Plymouth in 1577, though his was even more of a buccaneering expedition than that of Candish.

B The longboat carried by these East Indiamen measured from twenty-seven to twenty-nine feet in length.

C The East Indiamen of about the middle of the eighteenth century rode to fifteen-inch cables.

D The Spaniard is a treacherous patch off the north-east corner of the Isle of Sheppey.

E For some details in this connection I am indebted to Lindsay’s “History of Merchant Shipping,” as well as to an article in The Mariner’s Mirror, vol. i., No. 1.

F Mentioned in Captain E. du Boulay’s “Bembridge, Past and Present.”

G I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness in this chapter to Captain Rathbone Low’s “History of the Indian Navy.”

H That is to say a ship belonging to the Ostend East India Company.