"We are as near to heaven by sea as by land! (Humphrey Gilbert)"
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January 1, 1970

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Dying words as his frigate Squirrel sank in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores, 5 August 1583. Quoted in Richard Hakluyt Third and Last Volume of the Voyages of the English Nation, 1600. Dictionary of Quotations, p. 353