28 SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT. 



arose, and the Delight, the largest vessel of the 

 Bquadron, was lost. Sixteen only made their escape in 

 the boat. The first appearance of change was a dense 

 fog, which enveloped the ships, followed by a gale of 

 wind, south by east. They could not see beyond the 

 head of the vessel. The Golden Hinde, all of a sudden, 

 got entangled among rocks and shoals. The Delight 

 beat still further in among them. Finding the sound- 

 ings constantly varied, a signal was made to the Delight, 

 by the Golden Hinde, to stand out, but it remained 

 unnoticed. She soon afterwards struck on a shoal, and 

 her stern was quickly beat to pieces. This was a fatal 

 blow to the prospects of Sir Humphrey. 



The Golden Hinde and Squirrel, all now left of the 

 five ships which originally set sail from Plymouth, stood 

 east by south. The water shoaled, and then deepened 

 from four to seven fathoms, and then shoaled to four or 

 five again, with a very high sea. At the time the De- 

 light went on the rocks, her boat was afloat at the 

 stern, it having fortunately been hoisted out the day 

 before, when the weather was fine, to pick up some 

 birds which had been shot. Into this boat a part of the 

 crew were, by great exertion, enabled to get, and to 

 pick up others. The captain and a hundred of the crew 

 perished with the ship ; and besides the Saxon before 

 mentioned, who said he had discovered the silver ore, a 

 learned man from Buda, in Hungary, called Budaeus on 

 board, but whose name was Stephen Parmenius, who 

 had written a Latin poem in praise of Sir Humphrey, 

 and had gone out to write an account of the voyage, 

 and what he saw, in the Latin tongue, was among the 

 sufferers. 



The bearing of Captain Browne, who had been trans- 

 ferred from the Swallow into the Delight, was, upon this 

 occasion, of the most heroic character. When the fate 



