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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
hirty feet in length. In caulking their frail craft, films of the pal- Sept. metto served for oakum, and they payed the seams with pitch from the nearest pines. For rigging, they twisted ropes out of horse hair and the fibrous bark of the palmetto; their shirts were pieced together for sails, and oars were shaped out of savins; skins flayed from horses served for water bottles; it was difficult in the deep sand to find large stones for anchors and ballast. Thus equipped, on the twenty-second of September about two hundred and fifty men, all of the party whom famine, autumnal fevers, fatigue and Chap. II.} 1528. Sept. the arrows of the savage bowmen had spared, embarked for the river Palmas. Former navigators had traced the outline of the coast, but among the voyagers there was not a single expert mariner. One shallop was commanded by Alonso de Castillo and Andres Dorantes, another by Cabeza de Vaca. The gunwales of the crowded vessels rose but a handbreadth above the water, ti
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
The little frigate, not more than twice as large as the long-boat of a merchantman, too small a bark to pass through the ocean sea at that season of the year, was nearly wrecked. The general, sitting abaft with a book in his hand, cried out to those in the Hind, We are as neere to heaven by sea as by land. That same night, about twelve o'clock, the lights of the Squirrel suddenly disappeared; and neither the vessel, nor any of its crew, was ever again seen. The Hind reached Falmouth in Sept. 22. safety. On Gilbert, see Hayes, in Hakluyt, III. 184—203; Parmenius to Hakluyt, III. 203—205; Clark's Relation, ibid. 206—208; Gilbert to Peckham, in Purchas, III. 808; leigh to Gilbert, in Tytler's Raleigh, 45. The bold spirit of Raleigh was not disheartened by 1584 the sad fate of his step-brother; but his mind revolved a settlement in a milder climate; and he was determined to secure to England those delightful countries Chap. III.} 1584. Mar. 25. from which the Protestants of<