3-047-184 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'She Yielded a Quantity of Precious Stones', c1929. 'Proceeding to Valparaiso, [Francis Drake] helped himself liberally to the good things he found, including a certain quantity of fine gold...Following the coast he heard news of a ship bound for Panama laden with silver and gold, and came up with her at Cape Francisco. She is said to have yielded eighty pounds of gold and twenty-six tons of silver, thirteen chests of money and a quantity of jewels and precious stones, valued at £200,000. After taking other prizes [his ship] the "Golden Hind" reached England on September 26, 1580, to quote Stowe, "very richly freight with gold, silver, silk, pear and precious stones".' English pirates in South America during the 16th century. From "Heroic Deeds of Great Men", by C. Sheridan Jones and Alfred Miles, illustrated by Howard Davie and Harry Payne [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, c1929]