Audio Sepis numer Szydisarche Koprazhniniu DVA A Speaker 1 James Cook was a famous English navigator, discoverer and map maker.0:00
He was born in a small village in the north of England.0:14
At the age of 17, he was sent to learn to sail on ships.0:17
He became very interested in sea voyages and made a lot of them.0:22
He was at the head of three expeditions around the world which made the knowledge about our planet deeper and wider.0:26
The maps he made were very good for those times.0:35
He discovered many islands in the Pacific Ocean and was killed on one of them by the native people.0:38
Speaker 2 Basque da Gama was born in Portugal.0:47
He was a famous sea traveller and lived in the 15th century.0:52
He was the first to make a voyage from Europe to India which was very important for his country as it got new markets.0:57
The voyage was rather difficult and not very successful because the people in India were not very much interested in Portuguese goods and didn't want to buy them.1:05
But the route to India by sea was discovered and and that was a great success.1:15
Speaker 3 Francis Drake was born in 1540 in England.1:23
The Drake family was rather large.1:30
Francis parents had 12 children.1:33
Francis loved the sea and left his native town fairly young.1:36
He got a ship as a gift from his friend, an old captain, and made some distant voyages.1:40
In 1577, Queen Elizabeth I sent Drake on an expedition against the Spanish.1:47
He took part in the war between England and Spain in 1585 and destroyed the ships of the enemy.1:55
He died in 1596 at the age of 56 and was buried at sea.2:03
He was considered a hero by the English and just a pirate by the Spanish.2:09
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