Note 364 — Chapter VI

See Richard Clarke’s narrative of “The Voyage for the discovery of Norumbega, 1583,” in Hakluyt, iii. 163; [and Edward Haies’s account of the voyage of 1583, Ibid., iii. 143, and also in E. J. Payne’s Voyages of Elizabethan Seamen, London, 1880, p. 175. Soon after Haies, in the “Golden Hind,” reached England, after seeing Gilbert, in the “Squirrel,” disappear, A True Reporte of the late Discoveries (London, 1583) came out, purporting on the titlepage to be by Gilbert; but Hakluyt, who reprinted it in 1589 and 1600, interpreted the initials G. P., of the Dedication, as those of Sir George Peckham, who had in his tract urged another attempt under Gilbert’s patent, as Captain Carlyle had done in his discourse just before Gilbert sailed, which was also reprinted in Hakluyt. See also Hakluyt’s Westerne Planting, ed. by Deane, p. 201; George Dexter’s First Voyage of Gilbert, p. 4. The Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D., printed in Mass. Hist. Coll., ix. 49, a memoir of Parmenius the Hungarian, who went down in Gilbert’s largest ship.—Ed.]