1583. SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT. 103 



Island, when only twelvx men escaped in a boat 

 out of more than a hundred souls, who all, except 

 these, perished ; among whom was Stephanus Par- 

 menius, of Buda, a learned Hungarian, who had 

 embarked on this enterprize for the purpose of 

 recording, " in the latine tongue, the gests and 

 things worthy of remembrance ;" and also " the 

 Saxon refiner and discoverer of inestimable riches.** 

 It was said that the loss of tlie miner and the ore 

 preyed on Sir Humphrey Gilbert's mind, as on the 

 strength of his mine he had reckoned on borrowing 

 10,000/. from the queen for his next voyage.* 

 Mr. Edward Haies, the narrator, observes, that 

 " like the swanne that singeth before her death, 

 they in the admirall (or Delight) continued in 

 sounding of trumpets with drummes and fifes ; 

 also winding the cornets and haughtboyes ; and in 

 the end of their jolitie left with the battell and 

 ringing of doleful knels." 



Sir Humphrey, however, escaped in his little 

 bark, and, with the Golden Hinde, determined on 

 proceeding to England. His little frigate, as she 

 is called, is described as being wholly unfit to 

 proceed on such a voyage ; and when he was 

 entreated not to venture in her, but take his pas- 

 sage in the Golden Hinde, this brave man replied, 

 ^' I will not forsake my little company going 

 homeward, with whom I have passed so many 



* Hayes's Account of the Voyage in Hakluyt, vol, iii, p, 155, 



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