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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: does not believe, as Yeo believed, that fighting the Spaniards was
as really fighting in God's battle against evil as were the wars of
Joshua or David. But the old man had his practical hint too, and
entreated to be sent back to Plymouth to look for men.
"There's many a man of the old Pelican, sir, and of Captain
Hawkins's Minion that knows the Indies as well as I, and longs to
be back again. There's Drew, sir, that we left behind (and no
better sailing-master for us in the West-country, and has accounts
against the Spaniards, too; for it was his brother, the Barnstaple
man, that was factor aboard of poor Mr. Andrew Barker, and got
clapt into the Inquisition at the Canaries); you promised him, sir,
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