Drimys winteri stamens. The fruit is a bluish berry. When Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world in 1577-80, of the four ships accompanying the "Golden Hind" at the outset, the only ship that successfully rounded Cape Horn with him was the "Elizabeth", captained by John Wynter; the two ships separated in a storm and Winter turned back. Presumably he had sickness on board, for he sent a boat ashore to search out medicinal herbs. He returned in 1579 with a supply of "Drimys" bark, and for centuries before vitamin C was isolated, "Winter's Bark" was esteemed as a preventive and remedy
The History of Sir Francis Drake Siege of Rhodes", and perhaps on "The Cruelty" too. The History of Sir Francis Drake The History of Sir Francis Drake was a hybrid theatrical entertainment, a masque or "operatic tableau" with an English libretto written by Sir William Davenant and music by Matthew Locke. The masque was most likely first performed in 1659 and produced by Davenant. As with his earlier "The Siege of Rhodes" (1656) and "The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru" (1658), Davenant cast "The History of Sir Francis Drake" as a musical drama to avoid the Puritan prohibition of stage plays during the English Commonwealth