THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



will not/ he said, 'forsake my little company going 

 homeward, with whom I have passed so many storms 

 and perils/ They met foul weather and terrible seas, 

 ' breaking short and high, pyramid- wise.' But Gilbert 

 was undismayed. The last vivid scene has been stamped 

 for ever on the memory of his countrymen by the 

 J) ft f narrative of Edward Hayes. ' Monday, the ninth of 

 Gilbert. September, in the afternoon, the frigate was near cast 

 away, oppressed by waves, yet at that time recovered : 

 and giving forth signs of joy,- the General, sitting 

 abaft with a book in his hand, cried out unto us in 

 the Hind^ so oft as we did approach within hearing, 

 JVe are as near to Heaven by sea as by land' At twelve 

 o'clock that night the Squirrel's lights suddenly dis- 

 appeared, and she was seen no more. Gilbert's last 

 speech is his sufficient memorial : perhaps it was ringing 

 In Robert Burton's memory, when, writing of the 

 remedies for discontent, he paraphrased Gilbert's great 

 saying, and embroidered it after his own fashion. 'So 

 it is. Fortune favours some to live at home to their 

 further punishment; 'tis want of judgement. All places 

 are distant from Heaven alike, the Sun shines haply as 

 warm in one city as in another, and to a wise man 

 there is no difference of climes : friends are everywhere 

 to him that behaves himself well, and a prophet is not 

 esteemed in his own country.' Gilbert, at least, is 

 esteemed in his own country as the pioneer of North 

 West discovery, and the first who set his hand to the 

 building up of Greater Britain. 

 Virginia. His work was taken up immediately by Raleigh. 

 'After a night of storm so ruinous,' the scene rises 

 on a fair landscape and the innocent and gentle happiness 



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