North America - NW Coast/Alaska (Geographic Keyword)

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Zelia Nuttall and The Vexed Question: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Darby.

It’s been almost two score and four hundred years since Francis Drake and his company in two ships, the Golden Hinde and a small ship only known as Tello’s Bark, landed somewhere on the west coast of American. This interlude was during what became known as ‘The Famous Voyage’ (1577-1580). Seventy to eighty men-- and a pregnant black woman named Maria—disembarked, built a rough fort, and remained for five or six weeks. The geographical location of this landing has been the subject of much...