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Excerpt from Question, Did Sir Francis Drake Land on Any Part of the Oregon Coast? The old and new settlers in rich and beautiful Oregon may like to learn the facts as known about Sir Francis Drake's famous voyage off the coasts of California and Oregon in 1579. The popular idea has prevailed among many Oregonians that Drake was the first to make a landing on the coast of Oregon, and to see and note its natural resources, between the parallels of North Latitudes 42 deg. and 48 deg. Some of them think he made his landing either at the mouth of the Chetco River, in Curry County, or at Port Orford, in Coos County. In this little tract will be found extracts made from all the oldest and best authorities on the subject: these I have collected from the original documents existing in the archives of the British Museum in London; and the three maps given are facsimiles of those most ancient ones found therein. I have also given extracts from the latest modern writers on the subject. 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.