Inspired by David Ingram's account of visiting Norumbega, near to Cape Breton, Humphrey Gilbert aspired to go there, too. Second son of a wealthy English gentleman, Humphrey Gilbert was educated ...

In 1583, Humphrey Gilbert left on a second venture to the New World with five ships: the Delight, the Bark Raleigh, the Golden Hind, the Squirrel, and the Swallow. In his work entitled Divers ...