...storms and perils ' : and his last recorded words, spoken shortly before the vessel went down, were, ' We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.' The exploration of the bleak northern shores of America bore rich fruit in after centuries, when the Hudson's...

...abaft with a book in his hand," perhaps the Bible, and crying out as they approached within hearing, "We are as near to heaven by sea as by land." "The same night, about twelve of the clock, the frigate being ahead of us in the Golden Hind, suddenly her lights were...

...his hand, and shouted in a cheerful voice to the crew of the Hind, which was close alongside : — "We are as near to heaven by sea as by land." The sailors of Gilbert's expedition have been called "no better than pirates" (Bancroft), but at worst...

...less famous — Humphrey Gilbert, who, at the height of the storm in which he perished, cried out, "We are as near to heaven by sea as by land " ; the fearless Davis, who gave his name to the Straits, and wrote of the seaman that noble sentence of praise,...

...forth signs of joy, the general, sitting abaft with a book in liis hand, cried out unto us in the Hind, "We are as near to heaven by sea as by land." The same Monday night the frigate's lights went suddenly out, and it was devoured and s\yallowed up by the sea.'...

...and, giving forth signs of joy, the general, sitting abaft with a book in his hand, cried unto us, "We are as near to heaven by sea as by land." . . . The same Monday night, about 12, the frigate being ahead of us, suddenly her lights were out ... in that moment...

...abaft with a book in his hand, cried out to us in the Hind (so oft as we did approach within hearing,) 'We are as near to heaven by sea as by land'." The book was almost certainly Sir Thomas More's Utopia, where the phrase, or one very near it, occurs;...

...burden, when in the midst of a storm in which he, alas! and all with him perished, cried out to his men - 'Courage my lads! We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.' It was a Captain Hind who sailing in company with him heard him utter these deathless words, and it...

...joy, the general, sitting aloft with a book in his hand (the Bible), cried out unto us in the Hind, ' We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.' The same Monday night the frigate's lights were suddenly out, and it was devoured and swallowed up by the sea."...

...abaft on the deck of the Squirrel, with a book in his hand cheering those in the Hind by reiterating, ' We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.' " The wanton destruction of property and life, comprehensible enough m the case of the Spaniards, is equally...