<P> Despite popular lore, it seems unlikely that Drake reached Cape Horn or the eponymous Drake Passage, because his descriptions do not fit the first and his shipmates denied having seen an open sea . The first report of his discovery of an open channel south of Tierra del Fuego was written after the 1618 publication of the voyage of Willem Schouten and Jacob le Maire around Cape Horn in 1616 . </P> <P> Drake pushed onwards in his lone flagship, now renamed the Golden Hind in honour of Sir Christopher Hatton (after his coat of arms). The Golden Hind sailed north along the Pacific coast of South America, attacking Spanish ports and pillaging towns . Some Spanish ships were captured, and Drake used their more accurate charts . Before reaching the coast of Peru, Drake visited Mocha Island, where he was seriously injured by hostile Mapuche . Later he sacked the port of Valparaíso further north in Chile, where he also captured a ship full of Chilean wine . </P> <P> Near Lima, Drake captured a Spanish ship laden with 25,000 pesos of Peruvian gold, amounting in value to 37,000 ducats of Spanish money (about £ 7m by modern standards). Drake also discovered news of another ship, Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, which was sailing west towards Manila . It would come to be called the Cacafuego . Drake gave chase and eventually captured the treasure ship, which proved his most profitable capture . </P> <P> Aboard Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, Drake found 80 lb (36 kg) of gold, a golden crucifix, jewels, 13 chests full of royals of plate and 26 tons of silver . Drake was naturally pleased at his good luck in capturing the galleon, and he showed it by dining with the captured ship's officers and gentleman passengers . He offloaded his captives a short time later, and gave each one gifts appropriate to their rank, as well as a letter of safe conduct . </P>

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