Not just any sponsor.
A sponsor who speaks Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Latin simultaneously. Though I panicked and blurted it out, it would be an unforgettable experience.
One who performs impossible miracles... a magician? A mystery of the sea?
'The sea is truly amazing! To have such a wondrous experience!'
Of course, Drake could accept it without difficulty. He had already seen numerous miracles at sea.
Like a seagull speaking human language (a hallucination due to vitamin deficiency during long voyages), or a mermaid (it was a dugong).
Thanks to such experiences, Drake was sufficiently "superstitious" like a sailor, and he could incorporate this strange experience with the native emperor "Nemo" as just another page in his adventurous life!
That is, what mattered to the great Captain Drake right now wasn't such things.