FOOTNOTES:

FOOTNOTES:ADrake 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.BThe longboat carried by these East Indiamen measured from twenty-seven to twenty-nine feet in length.CThe East Indiamen of about the middle of the eighteenth century rode to fifteen-inch cables.DThe Spaniard is a treacherous patch off the north-east corner of the Isle of Sheppey.EFor some details in this connection I am indebted to Lindsay’s “History of Merchant Shipping,” as well as to an article inThe Mariner’s Mirror, vol. i., No. 1.FMentioned in Captain E. du Boulay’s “Bembridge, Past and Present.”GI wish to acknowledge my indebtedness in this chapter to Captain Rathbone Low’s “History of the Indian Navy.”HThat is to say a ship belonging to the Ostend East India Company.

ADrake 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.

ADrake 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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