In 1579 Francis Drake beached the Golden Hind on the California coast for some weeks, and his men left the first English descriptions of the native people there. The anthropologist Robert Heizer weighs the accounts of the chaplain Francis Fletcher and others, the debate over Drake’s Bay and Bodega Bay, and what the record reveals about the people Drake met.
A compact scholarly study for anyone curious about Drake’s voyage and early California. Download the free EPUB.