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Tous les autres exemplaires originaux sont film6s en commenpant par la premidre page qui comporte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par la dernidre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. Un des symboles suivants appara?tra sur la dernidre image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbole ^*> signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbols V signifie "FIN". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre film6s d des taux de reduction diff^rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clichd, il est filmi d partir de Tangle supirieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images n^cessaire. Les diagrammes suivarits illustrent la m6thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ir^LK-i . tv. Utztittti 'MovotuM^a OR THE VOYAGES OF SIMON FERDINANDO AND JOHN WALKER TO THE PENOBSCOT RIVER. 1579—^580. Revised from the N. E. Historical and Genealogical Register, 'April, 1890. It is micli to b , d'^^'^ir.d that, in our days, when a sound and sev^- spirit of critii ism, devoid of a char;ictor of contempt, prcv.u!s, the ok! investigations of Powcil and Richard HakUiyt might b.; resumed in Fr.g'.ind and Ire! uid. I do not share in the re- jecting si'irit,—///, ''':'/. By B. F. De COSTA. ALBANY : JOEL MUX SELL'S SON'S, I 8qo . V "1 r#r PRiNTi;n BT Paviii Clapp & Son. BOSTON. ^ " ■^ -^ •-"!« iiitfflhii. It" -fvisr' I ANCIENT NOKOiMBEGA. IN the third volume of "The Narrative and Critical History of America" (pp. 171 and 186), the writer has stated a few facts with respect to Simon Ferdinando, who, so far as his knowledge extends, led the first English expedition to the region now covered by the State of Maine, but then known as a part of Norombega. Simon Ferdinando was known in connection with Virginia, begin- ning with the year 1584. In 1580 he served with White, who quarrelled, and loaded him with abuse.* This was echoed by William- eon,! and emphasized by Dr. Hawkes,^ who styled him a" treacherous villain " and "contemptible mariner," declnring that he was a Span- iard hired by his nation to deceive the English colony. Later, however, the account of his services under Grenville, 1585, came to light, and his faithfulness and skill are highly applauded by Ralph Lane,§ thus relie\iMg his memory from unjust aspersions. It now remains to speak of what he accomplished in 1579. Simon Ferdinando was a Portuguese, not a Spaniard. There is, however, to be had at present only a glimpse of his voyage, which ia brought to light in one of the papers connected with David Ingram, who, with two companions, ia believed to have travelled on the Indian trails from the Bay of Mexico to Maine during 1567-8, embarking on a French ship somewhere near the St. John's River. |1 The essential part of tlie narraflve relating to Ferdinando comprises a few lines : " lo7'J Simon fferditiaiiflo Mr. Secretary Walsinyhani's man went and came from the same coast w"'iu three monthes in the little ffrigate without any other consort, and arrived at Dartmouth where he ymburked when he beijitnne lus viajje." The "said coast" was none other than the region of Norombega, the present State of Maine, towards which, at that time, all eyes were turned. Certain disconnected events which pieceded the voy- • HakluTt, III. 280. t Hist. Ciiroliim. I. 63. t Hist. N. Carolina, 1. 196. ( Archeohgia Americana, IV. 1 1 ; and Col. Sute MSS., I. Atig. 12, 1635. i " Miigiizine of AmeriLan History." Vol. IX. 168; "Colonial State Papers." Vol. I. No. 2, and the Tanner MSS., Bodleian Library, Oxford. J I ngo of Fcrdlnamlo also gain prune ni«llce, though of (lie details of the voyage itself uuthiiig can he loarnod at jucfjcnt. Tt ajipcars that, in 1577, "pinion Fonlinando a Portuguese," was called at Cardiff to testify with respect to the piracy of ".tdlin Callire and other pirates." Ferdinando says that he sailed \\ith"Cal]ic" or "Callioe, " two years previous -«s pilot, (. illice having "a t*hipp at Kye prepared to passe to the Indians," meaning the \Vest Indies ; and tliat a Portuguese ship was plundered, though, Iteing sick, he was not charged with coin[>lipity. lie says that they met t) • Portuguese vessel when " travelling t(twards America." Some time after, evi- dently in 1570, he "bought a little hark," and made a profitless cruise towards the Canaries. This vessel cost him " forty marks," and was pruhahly the "little ffrigate " in which he sailed to Nevv England. Afterwards he was cast into jail "upon suspicion of her- e.sy," though he was liberated and hecame Secretary " NValsingham's man." Upon his return he appears to have been interested in matters that concerned Frohisher : and, November 7th, 1581, he addressed a letter to that adventurer.* The following year. May 1st, he was nuistered as first pilot in the "galleon Leicester "f under Fcnton, bound to the ]\Tohiccas ; also serving as jtilot to the Virginia expe- ditions of 1585 and 1587. Fcrdinando, according to Lane, pos- sessed "grete skylle and grcte government," and was a trusty man. With the notice of this voyage, set on foot apparently by Secretary Walsingham, Simon Ferdinando passes out of sight until 1585, wIk'U he sailed to \'IiL:inia. Xevertheless he peiTurmcd his part, and deserves honorable mention amongst those worthies who, by their labors and sacrifices, ju'cpared the way for the occupation of New P^ngland.J • British Mtispiim MSS,, VIII. Ollio, fol. 100. t W''^. fol. 205. J In 1,J77 Ciiidiff, Wales. li:iil I'c mno tlie licMdiju.irters of r largo t'^if,' of piMtcs, sixty of wliom find their inniiitaiiicrs iIkic, mid, thoiigli well kn>'\vn, the town's ini>i)lc were un- williiij; to give infurniiitiun. .\|iril ,')il, of that venr, n Coniinission sat to examine the mat- tor, nnd on Marcli 17th Ferdinando testified. The following was drawn ijy the author from the dingy archives: "The said Simon fferdinando sayefh that he knoweth Gallic nnd liath knowcn him the spaee of these three or four yenrcs last jiast l)Ut he went not to sea w'" him vntill w">lii these two yeares tTor he sayeth that alioutec Michelmas was two years the ■■aid Gallic sent for this Kxaiat then bein;: at London and then declared to the Kxai.it [Exiriiinant] that M' Iliiny Kiiowles had a shi]ipat Rye jireparcd to passe to the Indians and tliat this Ex.iiat shdufd he Pylatt thereof yf he ly>elf nnd sayeth tliat aerordiiip to tliiit 1 1 •luc*! this Exniniiiant take vpon him to he Pylatt of wo*" shipp the 'aid Callie was M' and one tferdinaiido was Capilaine. And we traveling to the seas Ifm want of wcatlu i they taryed long vpon the co.st of Eng- land and Ity reason thereof spent iiineh of their vietnal nnd yet in the end travelling towordes America they met w"" n Poitingall vpon the costes of the land of Portingall and from him they tokc nhontes 100 ehestes of Sugar hciiig part of his lodiiiir and haveing gotten that pryse they arvyed w"' the same at the rode of Peiimaith lusyde Caidief in the Countie of Glaymorgan ahoutes Allhalowtide [Nov. 1] last was two yeios the said Gallic the M' and fferdinando the Ga|)tayne made sail thereof to divers persons to whonie etrtainly he knoweth not (Tor he this Exaiat was then nnd for this tymc the slilpp layc there at rode was verry like to have died and more touching the cireiinisiaiHCs of that journey he cannot saye Faving that they gave this exaiat tcnne pounds of the eommodity they had by the sale of that bugar. ."- >.-^ . ..-f-!"^ -.,».• /- • - * ^»M '. ^f 'TT^C"'/ ■•"' The material {ijlvcn in the lonj; extract, appended as n not'», is of intorrat, as j,'iviiig some account of the life i)f Simon Ferdinando, who dcuhflo^? posse-'icd many of the charactori8ti«'8 of sailors of that period, the lest of whom kept a "nice conscience" no more ihan Chi'.!:;'cr\; " Sliipiiiiin," uj*u.illy hcinj^ roady for plimder. The information came to ii;,'lit in connection with a fornial exami- nation of David Iniiram, which wad also the occasion of hriiiLrin'T'Tohn vVallicr to notice. We give tiie pa[)erij entire, taking first the eAaiiiIn..tIon of David In;j^ram, which is ii sepaiate jiaper from hia nnM:iti\o, edited by the prt;i\' deceased late viee atiniire.U for the w ^ he paied forty markd at;l the s.uiie prepared to j^n to the seas to the Canarries & al.oi- ■■; a twelveiiioiuli k inore p.i»: fiiniisliiiij; that harek w"i nyne or teniu! nieii travellini: !■''!,' vpui) the seas towards ttia: eiiiiiitrie of the Canarries atid retoriie a.u'ain w't'out doeii.; ;inytliiiig but losing their Journey their tymeand spending all they hadl anil sytheiis [sinee] tliat tyme this exaiat hatli had no docini; vpon the SI IS and sayetli that thoairney. Beim; a^ked also who ilid lu'l|i to fmni-h his shipp to the Cannrries sayeth that one Willm R' ! ,irds, Robert A iams A John Thomas Bnier, of Cardill'e, di'l help to furnish the shipp, and sayeth that the sliipp ;ind all tin fmiiiture amounted to the value of CLt. and no bet- ter say'eth that lyeing out tenne or twelve weekis \v"> the shipi' they returned w''uiit doeing anyihing as before by reason whereof Riehards, Adams and John Thomas lost their parts of their stoek without commodity. But this Journey as he s.iyeth was taken in hand at the beginning of Maye was twelve- inonth. And further sayeth that after his return hhed w"' fayer pearle. niuii-wchhe •"'• Ite what kind of buildings and houses they have in that country. ffut to dis- ]jg hath confessed v* they buyld there bowses round lyke a Dovehouse cover vtlQna j j j • rei)orteth and hath in like manner a louer on the topps of there bowses and that there "'"^tobe"^^'' many pillors that upholdetb many things of gold and silver very massye buyltin and great and lykewyse many pyllors of Ciistall. nor roujide. ^'' I**^ whether there is any quantitye of gold, silver and jx^arle and of other iewells in that country. Me liath confessed that there is groat aboundance of gold, sylver and pearle and that he hath seanne at the heads of dyvers springs and in smale rounninge brouks dyvers peaces of gold soume as bigge as his fynger, others as bigge as his fyst and peaces of dyvers bignes. flTurther that he seanne great aboundance of pearle and dyvers strannge Sr IT. Gyl- stones uf what sort or valewe he knewe not. Ijori's mant 7_ j^g whether he sawe A beast farre excevdiin'e an ux in bignes. broil j;lit of ,,,, , ,, , ..••" i°i t the 6vd9 of He hath Cv.nfessed that there be in that cuuniry great aboundance of a ""from"* kinde of beast .almost as bigge agayne as an oxe in shape of l)ody not mu !h the place lie (lifferiuge from an oxe, savinge that he hath tares of a great bignes, that "are in fashoue much like unto the eares of a blmidhound havinge thereon very longe heare, and lykwyse on hi.> breast, and otluir parts of his bodye longe heare. ffurther he hath reported of dyvers kinds of wyld lK?asts whose skynueB John Walker who went out to Norombcga in I5S0. + ;wi. >--t>.. •Jn.^^-, .s.,' are very rich furres, lykwyse of dyvers kincTs of fruts au(\ trees of great eastirnatione. Tliiit there is a tree w*** bearetli a frnto lyke an aple but is poyson to eate for the aple beiiige broken there is a blacke lycor in the mydest tlvireof. Also that there is a tree that the barke thereof tasteth lyke pepper. Divers other uiatffr-i of great impDrtamice he hutli confessed (yf they be true) w'** he sayeth tli .t upon his lyfe ho otTurLth to gue to the pl«c<>, to approve the same truf. (Endorsed) ab' 1581. Questions to be demanded of David Iiiiirani com'tTiiiiig his knowledge of a discovery.* Next may be given a statetiient of tilings " over & above that which Ingram upon his examination did Confessc," the statement relating; to both Ferdinando and Walker and sceminij to have been fur- ni.^hod through Sir Humphrey himself. At least he conferred per- sonally with Walki r, who was " hi.s man." The Reporte of Iteim' tliat haue travellt'd the afore said Countryes w"* the note of the siiuh tiling-, as they hauo found there, ouer and aboue that which Ingram upon his examiiiai'on did oniifesse. whose names are Veror- zanus, Jaqnes Cartier, John Rurrus, Aiidreue Thevett.f John Walker of w''' number S' Humfroy Gylbert did coiiforre in person with the thrte last named. l.')79 Simon fffrdinando M' Secretary Wul-inghams man went and r;imo to and from the .^aid coast w'^'in three niontli- in the little ffrigate \v'*'out any other corisort, and arryved at Dartmouth whore ho ymbaikod whou ho be''anne his via";e. (sic) Note 15H0. John Walker Englishman and his Company did discover, a siluer mine w^'iu the Riner of Noniml'tg;i. on the North shore upon a hill not farre from the riuere sidt; a^i'it IX le^igues from tin; mouth thereof whore he fouiido the said riuer VII leag'ifs nr thoreabuut oner and XVIII fadome and haulf doepe. The riuor a tlio mouth boingo a!)out X leagues broade, and XXV' fadomo deopo w"'oiit barre. And the said riuor to hulde tliat his broadthe so much farther tlnu he was as he couldo possibly keiuie, boingo hy estimai'on al)Out XX miles. The Country was most exoollent botli fur the soylo, diuer^,ity of sweofe woodo and otiior troe-. Who also found-" at the '•amo timo in an Indian hous' Vir miles w"'in the laiide from tlio ryvors side abouo III*^ dryo liidi's, whoreof the most parte of them were eightoene foote by the square. Roth he anil his Company sayled from tho said Coast into Englundo in XVn dayes.t That the said coast waa the region lying south of Nova Scotia • Col. Stiife Ptip.,.i, Dnm. Ehzabith. Vol. 175, No. 95. Piit)Iir Record Otlice, London. t Thevct, the wiMi r Im- onilenvorcl to prove, never sinv New Kiighoul, ami ije^cribej Itoniv through the reliitiw- of other-. —See "^'he Northiueii in Maine." X (^ol. Stat,- I'oj»'>!i, Vol. I. No. 2.— Public Record Otlice, London. Manv of the old Btories iibout silver have filled ; this by Walker is vindicated by the f.ict thnt silver mining is now a recognized indn^Jtry .iii.und the Penoljscot reclon, where new mines are bein;? opened. Gold is also foui 1 in piying quantities- ; while the peurl oyster formerly abounded In New England waters, the Pilgi'inis tiudiiig pearls at Cape Cod in 1620. L ,..t(^gJ^ 8 tlicre can \>e no doubt. This is app.iront from tlie account of wliat followed, which it may be well to state briefly. _ It ai){)ear8 that, in 15'^0, Sir ITuinphrey liad been obliged to transfer his patent to lands in the new world, but, nevertheless, he sent out an expedition that year, under Walker, as his full state- ment already quoted iind«*r that date proves. Still he was (bter- mined not to withhold himself from enterprise, while we read in Dr. Dee's Diary, under July lO, l.'>82, this entry; "A meridie hor 3J cam Sir George Peckhain to me to know the tytle of Xorombega in respect of Spayn and Purtugnll."* The fol- lowing year Gilbert once more -ailed. >bireh 1 1th, Aldworth, Mayor of Bristol, William Salterne and others, whose families were after- ward connected with efforts in New En'^laiid, airecd to furnish a ship of sixty and a bark of forty tons, "to be ft'j't j« /lie counlry," under Mr. Carlisle, who probably did not go,f though the two vessels seem to have been included in the fleet of five sail. At the last moment, Spanish influence nearly succeeded in keeping Sir lluinplirey at home. England again felt the baiuful power that delayed the voyage of Verrazano. The I'ull of Alexander was still a j)ower,J and the Armada was already fore.-hadowed. Clearing himself of the charge of piracy, brought by Spanish spies, Sir IIuni[ihrey got to sea, June 11th. Ralegh's ship was obliged to put back, on account of sickness amongst the crew, but the rest went on, reaching Ni w Foundlaiid July 30th. August 5th, (lilbcrt took formal pnsse>s; ^n in the name of the Queen, and one ?liip was despatched to England. Still, as the Patent required actual possession in the region of New I'^ngland, he sailed southward, and, August 27th, reached the latitude of 44° N. The next evening was fair, and, ''like the swanne that eingeth before her death," those in tlie Admiral sounded trumpets and indulged in merriment. But the next day a storm arose, and the Admiral was lost upon a shoal near Sable Island with nearly all lier crew. There now remained only the "Hind" and the " Squer- rell," a "little frigate" of twelve tons, and but few supplies. Sir Humphrey did not deem it prudent to sail farther south, and accord- ingly shaped his course for home. Though admonished of the risk he ran in trusting himself to the frigate, he proceeded in this over- laden craft, the deck covered with nets and artillery, to reeross the Atlantic, whose waves were already smitten by the autumnal grles. When north of the Azores they met with nmch bad weather "and terrible seas, breaking short and high pyramid wise." Then when night came, the sailors on the great ship, the Hind, sa.v the fire of St. Elmo playing upon one end of the main yard, which, when it ap|)ears double, is an auspicious sign that the "seamen doe call Castor and Pollux " ; "but," it is added, "we had only one" • Diary, p. 8. Ibid, 16. Hakluvt III. 170. t Ibid, p. 182, and Read's " Henry Hudson." X Records of Privy Council in Edwards's "Life of Ralegh," I. 78. •■'*rr''^^i^?i;^'::^fr^ vv, --'■ ^Jriiaiirrirfay and accordingly thoy acco[)tcd it as a sign of doom. Nevertliclo.".*, Sir Humphrey was as strong of heart aa ever, and we read : " Mundiiy the ninth of September, in the afternoon, the Frigiit was noore cast away, oppressed by waves, yet at that time rccovtrcd : and giving forth sigiies of ioy, the Generall sitting abaft with a bookc in his hand, cried unto us in the Hind (so oft as we did ap[)r(>i li within hearinij:) We are as ncere to heaven by soa as by bind. Rcircratiiig the same 3{)ecch, well beseeming a souldior, resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testifie he was." Still the Kiii« "i ' 10 So confident wore (!ic nioniljore of (iilliort'e oxiiodition of e\ir 'cas, that the K'nrnod IIiinLrariaii, Steplianti? T*,(i-menitis Rudcius, " Master of Alts and Philorinj^liie," and the "friend it hn.ther" of Ilakhiyt, was taken in the pntcrj)risie, expressly to record the high proceedings of tlio intended Norf)niliei:a colony in Latin Verse; as the piihject wonld l)e adorned with " the ( lorpient jtile of tlie Orator and lare Poet of our time."* Hut this was not to he. Parnienius, of Pjiula, found a watery grave at the wrec': of the Admiral, and Xoronihega remained iineimg. Tlii'^ excursion is made into tlie jieriod \vliich fdlows Ferdinando and Walker, to indicate the more distinctly tlic situati'in of Nvirom- bega, for while some had their attention fixed upon tlie latitude of the Ilud-^on, these two navigators had distinctly in view the region lying around the great river which ai)i)Cars in a l<>ng .-cries of ancient maps, and which was none other than the Penobscot, to which, as already said, Simon Ferdinando the Po^tugnc-^e led tlie first known Knglish expedition. We have next to turn to John Walker and note the abiding faith of Gilbert in the promise of the new land. Circumstances had forced him to transfer his Patent, but he succeeded in sending out a little party to make ol-crvations and engage in trade. The voyage made at his instance had for its destination the Maine coast, and the agent employed was one John \\'alker, afterwards jjerhaps a clei-gy- nian of the Hngli-h Clmreh. We have seen that a iiiarginal entry in a manu-cript in the State Paper Ofrn'C, already given, runs as follows : "Sir II. (iilhert's man br. Might of the syd; (*f this beast from the j)lace lie discovered. "f The l)east referred to was of the kind men- tioned in the examination of David Ingram, of 1582, and the voy- age of discovery was one of recent date. A careful examination shows that the year 1580 was the only one in which such a discovery could have been made for Gilbert, while under that year we have, through Sir Humphrey, the voyage which answers the description, the John Walker referred to having made a voyage to Norombega, where he obtained the " syds " or hides. In s|)eaking of rivers, the old voyagers seldom made any distinction between the estuary and the river pro[)er. This was clearly the case in the present instance by Walker, who does not appear to have been a navigator ; but the rough estimate agrees suflficiently well with the map of the Coast Survey, which gives a width of twenty-one miles to the entrance of Penobscot Bay, between the Isle au Ilaut and White Hea 1. Rut the old sailors, in the absence of surveys, might include the distance between White Head and Deer Island, which would correspcmd to the computation of Walker, who made the Norombega ten leagues wide at its entrance. Tliere is also looin for his estimate of seven leagues in width, nine leagues in, as well • Hnkluyt III. 166. t jl>»it(j of thi' old ( tin thef Far! of Ij-'M it iy nil re oi Spaces show dcpturo fro the . . . Arundell : fnn'I fship^ mojtc nunil I . . . , Cutlworthe at . . . agayne, I si tho pfytt thi ness of my rem lyne as Whereof [ n-^ abundnnre of deep water. Beyond qucs(i<>n it wa.- the Pciiohscot that ho had in niiinl, and actually visited, ns tlie Noroinhc^M Kivcr. it is ."o well known that the Penohsrot was ncccepted at that period as the Norunihc^ii, that it would be idle to nrjriie the question. Chainplain and Lescarhot, in the followinj; centuiy, never doul)ted this, though they wore di-^apjiointt'd ujion finding no evidence of the City, which, perhaps, wa.-< never anything more than an Indian village carrying on a trade with the French and Knglir^h in ptltry. The Frcnc'i had other trading plains, and notably, that of lioston Harbor and the Charles River, as ,Tolm Smith testifie-i, and evidences (if their occupation may yet be e.-tabli-hcd ; but, nevcrthi'Icss, the N«iroiubcga will probably be identified with the tmlde I'enobscot.* This voyage of Walker, so thoroughly attested as ti» leave no doubt with regard to its performance, had ex[tress refei»'n<'e to the plans of Sir Humphrey, which the latter proceeded to execute in 1583. It is not indicated that Walker was the navigator of the expedition, though he may have been. At all events he repre.-cnted Sir Ferdi- naiido, and prol)ably was a layman like Rulnrt Salterne, supercargo of Pring in 1603, and who afterwards became a clergyman of tlie Ks- tabli:;lunont. At any rate, Walker the commercial man in search of " Hyds " disappears after the voyage, while Walker the chrgyman ap{iears immediately as a chaplain ujton the high seas. A manu- script that might have given light on the subject ha- been Injureil by fire. I Still we may "notice thai, Jiiiie 23, 15(S3, Fenton speaks of • W\ !i,iy lioro nppi'nil n tr,iii«laticii niii'le from tho ninmi-Tipt of Jclnin All('fon~i.T in the flii' ' 'h'.'iw Sationale, Pari-^, wlio wa-* on tlii- coast in !.>!.', ami iK-crH'Cs Ni>rotiil.iej,M anil its Ri\or, though like the nio-t of tlie nccoiint-i of that period, it is two decrees out of tli>' w,(y in latitude. In his c^rui.ate of tlie river, it will he seen he takes in all tlie water from Wliite He.ul to Mount Desert. He says : " The River is moru than forty lea^'ues wide at its etitrai,;-e, and ret;iin.s its width soinethirty or forty leagues. It is full of Islands, which .streteli some ten or twelve IcauMics intu the sea, and are very danirerous on account of roi'ks and shoils. The said riser is in 42 N. L. Fifteen lengues within this river there is ft town called Noromhcj-'a, with clev.r inhalutiints, who trade in furs of all sorts; the towns foik are dressed in furs, wearing sable. I (juestion whether the sai i river enters tlie nMcIiila;,'a. For more than forty leairnes it is si'.t water, at least so the town folk say. The in "[ir ii>c many words whi. h sound like Latin. They worship the sun. They are IhII ar I liaiiiKonie in form. The land of Noromlie_'\ lies high and i^ well situated." This, every vi.-itor to this stately ::;!d inipo^in_' riL'ion knows to he true; but the '• Liitin " came of tlie old (iispo-ition to follow phonetic reseniManee. t In the Cotton MSS. Briri>h Museum ;Otlio E. VIII. fol. 130) is a letter by Walker to thfl F.arl of Ij<'irester, written when at tho |>\(.nt iif Cliiiplnin with Fenton* in t!ie iittcnudcd cxjK'dition to tlie MoliiL't-as. l\ti was a member of tlic Council of Advice, and waa attaclicd to the *' r.dwiird."t The cxpcflition sailod, and in February, 1584, AValktr w:iH taken sick. 'I'ht' journal contains the ( dlowing ontry : " The 5 day about 10. aclxc 6. daycs, wee tookc a view of his things, srid prised them, and heaved him over- btiaid, and .-hot a i k ere for liis* knell. "| \Valker was evitlt iitly a humane man, n?ing his influence to heal di5sen>ions in the illftarrcd oxpcditiun, and preventing the admiral from exi rei-in<' ureat rmehv. 'J'hus, tii,--ing upim the waves of the hmely Southern Sea, he, who probably was the explorer of Xorombega in 1580, died, and there he found his burial. r>iit hi? influence did nt»t perish with him. The knowlcdjfc wliich ho ncipiired went to tswell the finn of Sir ITura- phrey (lillitrt's infurmation, and helped to -pur him on to ujidertakc his la.-'t voya;;e, or, otherwi->«c, to lure him un to death ; for, kni;jht and priest. Sir Ilumplirey CJilbert and "his man" found a common sepulture in the soa. Gilbert, in turn, was fillowed by Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who set his hand with irrcat stren<'th to the work of New Eni^land colo- ni/alion, of which he became the more immediate founder. Sir Ferdinando, luiwcvcr was under j^roat obliijations to such men as thoise who led the way to Maine in 1579-80 ; while the Pilgrims of Leyden, who were direc ted to Plymouth in 1()20 by the cm[)loycc8 of Gorges, were in turn indebted to W.alkor and his associates for the greeting they received from the chief Samosct, friend of Gorges, who exclaimed " Welcome, Knglislunen I " \ . • « -t ... ; ',»."■ -56 . ' vt • . / . . j"'-»' »• r .■ . 1 God p'scrvo yo' L in most linppvc rstnte to his cloryc & yo^ L hartca dcsjre. Southe- hampto this xxy"> of Apryll : 1582. J.J . . .^ ^ y • ^' honorable L mo-^t buiuiden * ';':.' * * s'vuunte Jouir Walkeb. May U plcnso yo^L to gcve me leave Oirther to aJvoriyse yo' L; ilmt the rjg'itt' worshypp- fiiU S"f Fruiincys Drake hatho vsed me w»i> the gicattsti' frcude^hyppe that any niyghte dosyre: bothe in instructinge me In the voyage aud in dialinge Ivberallje w"' me and my fcilowc preacher: for the whyche I bcscchc yo' L gtve him timnkes [Addressed:] To (he rj-ghte honorable my ► ■* ' Singular good Laud M' the trie of Ley coster gcve .hcse." • MSS. in British Museum, Otho VIII. f. 87. t Rlomic MSS. No. 2146, f. 73, mid Otlio VIII. fols. 142 and 179-200. i Ui.kluyt, Vol. III. p. 767. Otho, f. 140. ' '. \ vV»- •t'l •y»- C-^^ ifiiiMisri ^^ -X •^1^.' ^r i^i^ ^^•'^m^m