ing the Pacific coast of north America he stopped for supplies and met some people that were really nice and treated them good so they decided to claim it for England and share it with these people( they did not specify what culture they were).Drake planned on returning through the Magellan Strait but because Drake was not very well like by the Spanish so he decided to go home through the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. He didn't want to run into any problems. This meant that he was going to sail around the world. He stopped at the Philippine islands for more supplies and made a couple other stops along the way. He finally returned to Plymouth in September. After almost three years on the water he returned home and was made a national hero.King Phillip the second was very angry with Drake for stealing and killing so much of Spain's goods. So he ordered Queen Elizabeth to punish him at once .SO she called Drake and made him a knight. This made Phillip extremely angry and they go to war.He settled down a little and he was the mayor of Plymouth and represented the house of Bossiney in the House of Commons. Then in 1589 Drake led England on a raid on a Spanish port. On the way back there was a severe storm that killed thousands of Englishmen. The queen called this voyage a failure and Drake lost a lot of respect form the queen and didn't get any commands for almost six years.On Drakes last voyage he and his cousin sailed together again. They went to the west Indies where his cousin, Sir John Hawkins, died. While returning home after looting some more Sir Francis Drake died of dysentery. And his crew gave him a burial at sea.I enjoyed this book very much. It was a very detailed book and I learned a lot of this about how it was in the 1600's that I didn't know before. I think that I picked a very good explorer because he wasn't just an explorer he was a sea dog, a pirate. He terrorized people and I thought that was cool. There were many p...
