In this unfortunate voyage Gilbert buried the mass of his fortune, but, undismayed, he renewed his enterprise. He was successful in enlisting a large number of gentlemen in the new venture, and two friends who invested heavily--Sir Thomas Gerard, of Lancaster, and Sir George Peckham, of Bucks--he rewarded by enormous grants of land and privileges.[32] Raleigh adventured £2000 and contributed a ship, the _Ark Raleigh_;[33] but probably no man did more in stirring up interest than Richard Hakluyt, the famous naval historian, who about this time published his _Divers Voyages_, which fired the heart and imagination of the nation.[34] In 1579 an exploring ship was sent out under Simon Ferdinando, and the next year another sailed under John Walker. They reached the coast of Maine, and the latter brought back the report of a silver-mine discovered near the Penobscot.[35]
[Footnote 1: Cf. Bourne, _Spain in America_, chap. xvi.]
[Footnote 2: Cf. Cheyney, _European Background of American History_, chap. v.]
[Footnote 3: Prescott, _Hist. of the Reign of Philip II._, III., 443.]
[Footnote 5: Maine Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, II., 59.]
[Footnote 6: Hakluyt, _Discourse on Western Planting_.]
[Footnote 7: Robertson, _Works_ (ed. 1818), XI., 136.]
[Footnote 8: _Nova Britannia_ (Force, _Tracts_, I., No. vi.).]
[Footnote 9: Purchas, _Pilgrimes_ (ed. 1625), III., 809; Hakluyt, _Voyages_ (ed. 1809), III., 167-174.]
[Footnote 10: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 171; IV., 198.]
[Footnote 11: Purchas, _Pilgrimes_, III., 808; Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 31.]
[Footnote 12: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, I., 270.]
[Footnote 13: Winsor, _Narrative and Critical History_, III., 7.]
[Footnote 14: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 593, 618.]
[Footnote 16: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, IV., 1; Winsor, _Narrative and Critical History_, III., 59-84.]
[Footnote 17: Camden, _Annals_, in Kennet, _England_, II., 478.]
[Footnote 18: Harris, _Voyages and Travels_, II., 15.]
[Footnote 19: Harris, _Voyages and Travels_, II., 15.]
[Footnote 20: Camden, _Annals_, in Kennet, _England_, II., 478, 479.]
[Footnote 21: Camden, _Annals_, in Kennet, _England_, II., 479, 480; Hakluyt, _Voyages_, IV., 232-246.]
[Footnote 23: Edwards, _Life of Raleigh_, I., 77.]