Trapped and abandoned as the only English ship in the Pacific, Drake took the spectacular treasure ship Nuestra Señora de la Concepción — a haul greater than the entire annual revenue of Queen Elizabeth — and, unable to return through the Magellan Straits, completed the second circumnavigation of the globe in 1,046 days with no deaths from scurvy.

60:37ship, Noora de laion. And this gives Drake 14 chests of silver royale. This is so treasure island. 80 pounds of gold, 26 tons of silver bars. And so this is even more of a hall than Drake's previous hall of Spanish treasure. Probably the greatest the single greatest hall of treasure in maybe European history. I don't know. I mean, it it is a vast amount of money. Drake,

61:06I'm proud to say, treats the captured Spanish captain with um exemplary chivalry. And it has to be said that uh Spaniards who meet Drake are generally despite themselves very impressed by his his courtesy and his sense of chivalry. A >> so I think you know they they they fear and hate him but there is a sense you know it's a bit like the kind of the highwaymen the gentleman highwaymen

61:27something like that. >> Yeah. >> He also um any slaves that he finds on board the Spanish ships he offers them their freedom and sailors wages. And of course, most of the the the captured slaves um take this offer up. And this is an obvious way for Drake to top up his crew. >> I'm getting massive um sort of Tom Hiddston, Roger Moore vibes from Sir Francis Drake. He's suave.

61:50>> Yeah, but remember he's got he's he's stocky and um broadshouldered and he has a broad dev accent and he's not a gentleman. >> Yeah, I know. So, if you're doing realistic casting, it's John Reese Davis. It's the guy who played Gimy. But I think you surely want more of a sort of um a smooth suave Englishman. Sort of David Nan. >> Yeah. I thank you for your offer of

62:09silver. >> Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Maybe if you do a comedy, Terry Thomas would play him. >> No, I don't think so. No, you've got to take him seriously. >> Really? You'd never do a Francis Drake comedy. You don't think that would work? >> Carry on Drake. No. >> Carry On in the Caribbean? >> No. I think that would be offensive. >> I mean, the Spanish obviously don't find

62:28this a comedy. >> No, they don't. They're appalled. What are they planning to do? >> Well, they're thinking, how is Drake? You know, he's he's got all this this silver and gold, but he's got to take it back home. How's he going to do it? So, he might try and go overland from the Pacific coast across Panama to uh to the Atlantic coast. And so, they put

62:47garrisons in Panama on the alert in case he tries that. And then they think, well, he might, you know, try and go back through the Straits of Melan, so we'll put put patrols there. But Drake is aware that this is probably what they're thinking. And so instead of heading back south towards the Melan Straits, he heads northwards in the hope of finding a northern passage. So around

63:05what you know would be Canada. At this point he Drake doesn't know whether that actually that that's impossible. And so he sails up the coast of South America, North America, and he reaches almost as far as as as what is now Canada. >> Yeah. >> By June 1579. And he starts to realize, you know, we're never going to find a way around this. It just goes on and on