Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert): A Booke of Percedence; The Ordering of a Funerall, &c.; Varying Versions of the Good Wife, the Wise Man, &c (Classic Reprint)

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The history of the voyage was written by a Mr Edward Hayes, of Dartmouth, one of the principal actors in it, and as a composition it is more remarkable for fine writing than any very commendable thought in the author. But Sir Humfrey's nature Shines through the infirmity of his chronicler and in the end, indeed, Mr Hayes himself is subdued into a better mind. He had lost money by the voyage, and we will hope his higher nature was only under a tem porary eclipse. The fleet consisted (it is well to observe the ships and the size of them) of the Delight, 120 tons the barque Raleigh, 200 tons (this Ship deserted off the Land's End) the Golden Hinde and the Swallow, 40 tons each and the Squirrel, which was called the frigate, 10 tons. For the uninitiated in such matters, we may add, that if in a vessel the Size of the last, a member of the Yacht Club would consider that he had earned a club-room immortality, if. He had ventured a run in the depth of summer from Cowes to the Channel Islands.

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