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Christmas, 1899.

DRAKE AND HIS YEOMEN: A True Accounting of the
Character and Adventures of Sir Francis Drake, as told by Sir
Matthew Maunsell, his Friend and Follower. Wherein also is
set forth much of the Narrator's Private History.

BY JAMES BARNES, author of "Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors," "For King or
Country," "A Loyal Traitor," etc. Colored frontispiece and eight full-page illus-
trations, by CARLTON T. CHAPMAN. Crown 8vo. Cloth. $2.00

Mr Barnes tell the personal story of a young Englishman, born during
the latter years of the reign of Bloody Mary. Although his father is an
English baronet, his mother is Spanish, and she escapes to her native

[image: from a painting of sailing ships at sea]

country upon the ascension of Queen Elizabeth to the throne. Here the
boy, Matthew Maunsell, is brought up amid surroundings and a condition
of affairs that are distasteful to him. He has numerous adventures, and
becomes a Protestant. Upon the death of his mother he is returned to a
relative of his father's, a Romanist and close adherent of Mary Queen of
Scots, who determines to use him for furthering the Romish cause in
England and the overthrow of Elizabeth.

All that follows is a matter of absolute record in history. All the persons
named actually existed, and were followers of Drake, his Yeomen, as he
called them. The young hero becomes Drake's constant companion, and
is by his side at Nombre de Dios and in several hand-to-hand conflicts.
Drake becomes his ideal, and he makes records of his doings and sayings,
and much of his personal bravery and leadership.

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