Friday, December 13, 2024

Dec 13– From "Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World" by Francis Pretty

 Math Drake!

Dec 13– From Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World by Francis Pretty

Summary: Sir Francis Drake sales around and has adventures.

Commentary: There have been several of these, "brave explorer meets weird savages" entries in T5FSOB and this one just felt kind of generic. I did learn about Ells, which is like a Viking version of a cubit, and related to elbow. So that was neat.

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