_E. J. Payne, Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen, pages 173-174._ "On Monday, the 9th of September, in the afternoon, the frigate [the' Squirrel'] 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 to us in the 'Hind' (so oft as we did approach within hearing), 'We are as near to heaven by sea as by land,' reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a soldier resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was. On the same Monday night, about twelve o'clock, or not long after, the frigate being ahead of us in the 'Golden Hind,' suddenly her lights were out, whereof as it were in a moment we lost the sight, and withal our watch cried the General was cast away, which was too true; for in that moment the frigate was devoured and swallowed up by the sea. Yet still we looked out all that night and ever after, until we arrived upon the coast of England. ... In great torment of weather and peril of drowning it pleased God to send safe home the 'Golden Hind,' which arrived in Falmouth on the 22d of September, being Sunday." _E. Hayes, A Report of the Voyage by Sir Humphrey Gilbert (reprinted in Payne's Voyages)._ ALSO IN _E. Edwards, Life of Raleigh, volume 1, chapter 5._ _R. Hakluyt, Principal Navigations; edited by E. Goldsmid, volume 12._ AMERICA: A. D. 1584-1586. Raleigh's First Colonizing attempts and failures.