No feature is neglected.  ’Take with you the large mappe of London and let the river be drawn full of shippes to make the more showe of your great trade.  The booke of the Attyre of All Nations carried with you and bestowed in gift would be much esteemed.  Tinder boxes, with steel, flint, and matches.  A painted Bellowes, for perhaps they have not the use of them.  All manner of edge tools.  Note specially what dyeing they use.’  After many more items the authors end up with two bits of good advice.  ’Take with you those things that bee in the Perfection of Goodnesse to make your commodities in credit in time to come.’  ’Learn what the Country hath before you offer your commodities for sale; for if you bring thither what you yourself desire to lade yourself home with, you must not sell yours deare lest hereafter you purchase theirs not so cheape as you would.’]

Sou’sou’west went Drake’s flotilla and made its landfall ’towards the Pole Antartick’ off the ‘Land of Devils’ in 31 deg. 40’ south, northeast of Montevideo.  Frightful storms had buffeted the little ships about for weary weeks together, and all hands thought they were the victims of some magician on board, perhaps the ‘Italianate’ Doughty, or else of native witchcraft from the shore.  The experienced old pilot, who was a Portuguese, explained that the natives had sold themselves to Devils, who were kinder masters than the Spaniards, and that ’now when they see ships they cast sand into the air, whereof ariseth a most gross thick fogg and palpable darkness, and withal horrible, fearful, and intolerable winds, rains, and storms.’

But witchcraft was not Thomas Doughty’s real offence.  Even before leaving England, and after betraying Elizabeth and Drake to Burleigh, who wished to curry favor with the Spanish traders rather than provoke the Spanish power, Doughty was busy tampering with the men.  A storekeeper had to be sent back for peculation designed to curtail Drake’s range of action.  Then Doughty tempted officers and men:  talked up the terrors of Magellan’s Strait, ran down his friend’s authority, and finally tried to encourage downright desertion by underhand means.  This was too much for Drake.  Doughty was arrested, tied to the mast, and threatened with dire punishment if he did not mend his ways.  But he would not mend his ways.  He had a brother on board and a friend, a ’very craftie lawyer’; so stern measures were soon required.  Drake held a sort of court-martial which condemned Doughty to death.  Then Doughty, having played his last card and lost, determined to die ’like an officer and gentleman.’

Drake solemnly ’pronounced him the child of Death and persuaded him that he would by these means make him the servant of God.’  Doughty fell in with the idea and the former friends took the Sacrament together, ’for which Master Doughty gave him hearty thanks, never otherwise terming him than “My good Captaine."’ Chaplain Fletcher having ended with the absolution, Drake and Doughty sat down together ’as cheerfully as ever in their lives, each cheering up the other and taking their leave by drinking to each other, as if some journey had been in hand.’  Then Drake and Doughty went aside for a private conversation of which no record has remained.  After this Doughty walked to the place of execution, where, like King Charles I,