The French overestimated Drake’s booty by over threefold

Evidence

The rough total, though slightly larger than that found by the auditors, is much smaller than the estimate of the value of the cargo as given in the French narrative of the voyage (Lacour, p. 26), in which the amount was said to be five or six hundred thousand escuz, or roughly 166,000 l, to 200,000 l. — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 369

Categorization

• XREF: The discrepancy between French narrative estimates and English accounts of Drake’s plunder connects to how raids’ loot was inflated in contemporaries’ telling.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 369