found that it would not hold more than half of them all. Then Harald said,
"We will divide by lots, without regard to the rank; each taking his
chance with the rest." This they thought, the Norse legend says, "a
high-minded offer." They drew lots, and Harald was among those assigned to
the safer boat. He stepped in, and when he was there a man called from the
other boat and said, "Dost thou intend, Harald, to separate from me here?"
Harald answered, "So it turns out," and the man said, "Very different was
thy promise to my father when we came from Greenland, for the promise was
that we should share the same fate."

Then Harald said, "It shall not be thus. Go into the boat, and I will go
back into the ship, since thou art so anxious to live." Then Harald went
back to the ship, while the man took his place in the boat, and after that
Harald was never heard of more.



XVII

THE SEARCH FOR NORUMBEGA


Sir Humphrey Gilbert, colonel of the British forces in the Netherlands,
was poring over the manuscript narrative of David Ingram, mariner. Ingram
had in 1568-69 taken the widest range of travel that had ever been taken
in the new continent, of which it was still held doubtful by many whether
it was or was not a part of Asia. "Surely," Gilbert said to his
half-brother, Walter Raleigh, a youth of twenty-three, "this knave hath
seen strange things. He hath been set ashore by John Hawkins in the Gulf
of Mexico and there left behind. He hath travelled northward with two of