Etext prepared by Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.com and John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz
PREPARER'S NOTE
This text is one of the items included in Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern and was prepared from a 1910 edition, published by P F Collier & Son Company, New York.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
by Edward Hayes
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the founder of the first English colony in North America, was born about 1539, the son of a Devonshire gentleman, whose widow afterward married the father of Sir Walter Raleigh. He was