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THE stout-hearted men who sailed the seas in the days of England's awakening were indeed heroes. Their charts were made with the degrees of longitude at different latitudes of equal length; they were inaccurate even as regards the shores of the English Channel, for it is one of the claims to renown of John Davis that he surveyed the Channel coasts in addition to those of the Arctic, of Magellan Straits, and of the Scilly Isles. They dared to cross the Atlantic in ten-ton vessels, for the Squirrel, in which Sir Humphrey Gilbert was lost, was of this size; they took five months on the voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, and the chances were that disease alone would kill off a large proportion of the crew of every vessel which went on a protracted voyage.
Heroes of the Elizabethan Age. Stirring Records of the Intrepid Bravery and Boundless Resource of the Men of Queen Elizabeth's Reign.
By E. Gilliat. (London: Seeley and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 5s.
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W., B. Heroes of the Elizabethan Age Stirring Records of the Intrepid Bravery and Boundless Resource of the Men of Queen Elizabeth's Reign . Nature 85, 269 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/085269b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/085269b0