“Also if there be any here willing to return home let me understand of them … but let them take heed that they go homeward, for if I find them in my way I will surely sink them.”— Francis Drake, amazon.comTagged: willing, Return, Home, Understand, heed
“But, my masters, I must have it left [stopped], for I must have the gentleman to hale and draw [work] with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What, let us show ourselves all to be of a company and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know…”— Francis Drake, amazon.comTagged: Master, Gentleman, mariner, marine, Sea
“Wherefore we must have these mutinies and discords that are grown amongst us redressed, for by the life of God, it doth even take my wits from me to think on it. Here is such controversy between the sailors and gentlemen, and such stomaching between the gentlemen and sailors, it doth make me mad to…”— Francis Drake, amazon.comTagged: mutiny, discord, Disagreement, Leadership, Unsatisfied