Note XXIII‑17 — Chapter XXIII · DRAKE AND OXENHAM'S EXPEDITIONS. 1572-1596.
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In Burton's English Heroe, 70, and in Life and Voy. of Drake, 57, it is stated that they sat up to the waist in water and that each wave drenched them up to the arm-pits. To steer and sail a raft under such circumstances, even if they escaped being washed overboard, was certainly a remarkable feat of navigation.