Sir Francis Drake, Description of His Landing at Drake's Bay, Marin County, California, June 17, 1579 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Sir Francis Drake, Description of His Landing at Drake's Bay, Marin County, California, June 17, 1579 Their men for the most part goe naked; the women take a kinde of bulrushes, and kembing it after the manner of hemp, make them selnes thereof a loose garment, which being knitte about their middles, hanges downe about their hippes, and so affordes to them a couering. They are very obedient to their husbands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.