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REPORT OF FINDINGS RELATING TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S ENCAMPMENT AT POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE

A Research Report of The Drake Navigators Guild

by Raymond Aker

1970

 

This copy of the report is provided for research purposes.

  Any reference to this document must reference the printed copy as identified on its title page.

  Any hand notations on any pages are to be omitted.

 

the first section of each scanned section is listed below

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Forward and Acknowledgments

Table of Contents and Introduction

The Contemporary Sources

The Plate of Brass

The French Drake Map

The Dutch Drake Map

Richard Madox

Depositions of John Drake

The Hondius Broadside Map

The World Encompassed

The Voyage North

Identification of the Portus

280 to 291

archaeology photos

Drake at Portus Novae Abonis

Conclusion

 

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Hondius Map

Part 3

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Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

 

 

 

Kraak Plate Design Sequence 1550-1655

 

Herbe like Lectuce

 

Botanical References

 

Identification of the Nova Albion Conie

 

Porcelains of Cermeno and Drake

 

THE CERMEÑO EXPEDITION AT DRAKES BAY - 1595 by Raymond Aker

Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho (Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño in Spanish)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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