When he had gone as far north as Oregon the weather grew so cold that his men began to murmur, and putting his ship about, he sailed southward along our Pacific coast in search of a harbor, which in June, 1579, he found near the present city of San Francisco.

There he landed, and putting up a post nailed to it a brass plate on which was the name of Queen Elizabeth, and took possession of the country.[3] Despairing of finding a short passage to England, Drake finally crossed the Pacific and reached home by way of the Cape of Good Hope.

He had sailed around the globe.[4] [Footnote 1: For Cabot's voyages read Fiske's _Discovery of America_, Vol.II., pp.

2-15.] [Footnote 2: See map of 1515.] [Footnote 3: The white cliffs reminded Drake strongly of the cliffs of Dover, and as one of the old names of England was Albion (the country of the white cliffs), he called the land New Albion.] [Footnote 4: For Drake read E.T.

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