[10] _Hakluyt's Voyages_, viii. p. 3. [11] _Ibid._, viii. p. 5. [12] _Ibid._, viii. p. 7. [13] _Hakluyt's Voyages_, x. p. 2. [14] _Ibid._, viii. p. 9. [15] _Ibid._, viii. p. 10. [16] _Hakluyt's Voyages_, vii. p. 149. [17] Fletcher, _Cornhill Magazine_, Dec. 1902. [18] _Hakluyt's Voyages_, ii. p. 178. [19] _Hakluyt's Voyages_, vii. p. 212. [20] _Ibid._, vii. p. 320. [21] _Ibid._, vii. p. 321. [22] _Ibid._, vii. p. 38. [23] _Hakluyt's Voyages_, viii. p. 54. [24] _Hakluyt's Voyages_, viii. p. 74. [25] _Ibid._, x. pp. 6, 7. [26] Egerton, _Origin and Growth of the English Colonies_, p. 65. [27] _Hakluyt's Voyages_ (ed. 1904), viii. p. 123. [28] _Hakluyt's Voyages_ (ed. 1904), viii. p. 141. [29] _Ibid._, viii. pp. 298 and 305. [30] _Hakluyt's Voyages_, xi. p. 25. CHAPTER II VIRGINIA: THE FIRST GREAT COLONY OF THE BRITISH The English settlers in America may be less romantic and less interesting figures than their Elizabethan predecessors, but they were undoubtedly fitter instruments for the specific work. The Elizabethan seamen had played their part, and men now arose who were to fulfil a greater destiny. The Gilberts and the Drakes were of a race which had ceased to be, and Fuller justly remarks "how God set up a generation of military men both by sea and land which began and expired with the reign of Queen Elizabeth, like a suit of clothes made for her and worn out by her; for providence so ordered the matter that they almost all attended their mistress before or after, within some short distance, unto her grave."[31] Although the adventurous spirit of the Golden Age had passed away, men were still left who could echo the words of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and say, "and therefore to give me leave without offence always to live and die in this mind, that he is not worthy to live at all that for fear or danger of death shunneth his country's service and his own honour, seeing death is inevitable and the fame of virtue immortal."[32] The one great figure who appears to connect the old period with the new was Sir Walter Raleigh. As has already been mentioned, he had sent out an expedition in 1584 to see what possibility there was of establishing a colony in America. The glowing accounts brought back by his two captains made Raleigh decide upon an undertaking which, though it proved a failure, must ever be regarded as memorable in the world's history.