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 L2000 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 4:  Ibid., chaps, xi., xii.]

[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 15:  Ibid., 618-623.]

[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 22:  Ibid., 316-341.]

[Footnote 23:  Edwards, Life of Raleigh, I., 77.]

[Footnote 24:  Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1513-1616, p. 8.]

[Footnote 25:  Hakluyt, Voyages, III., 32-46; Edwards, Life of Raleigh, I., 77; Doyle, English in America, I., 60.]