turn and come northward, but had gone, arrowstraight, across the north
Atlantic--one of the first English sailors to make the direct passage and
save many a weary sea league. Gosnold and his men had seen Cape Ann and
Cape Cod, and had built upon Cuttyhunk, among the Elizabeth Islands, a
little fort thatched with rushes. Then, hardships thronging and quarrels
developing, they had filled their ship with sassafras and cedar, and sailed
for home over the summer Atlantic, reaching England, with "not one cake of
bread" left but only "a little vinegar." Gosnold, guiding the Goodspeed, is
now making his last voyage, for he is to die in Virginia within the year.

George Percy, brother of the Earl of Northumberland, has fought bravely in
the Low Countries. He is to stay five years in Virginia, to serve there a
short time as Governor, and then, returning to England, is to write "A
Trewe Relacyion", in which he begs to differ from John Smith's "Generall
Historie." Finally, he goes again to the wars in the Low Countries, serves
with distinction, and dies, unmarried, at the age of fifty-two. His
portrait shows a long, rather melancholy face, set between a lace collar
and thick, dark hair.

A Queen and a Cardinal--Mary Tudor and Reginald Pole--had stood sponsors
for the father of Edward-Maria Wingfield. This man, of an ancient and

honorable stock, was older than most of his fellow adventurers to Virginia.
He had fought in Ireland, fought in the Low Countries, had been a prisoner
of war. Now he was presently to become "the first president of the first
council in the first English colony in America." And then, miseries
increasing and wretched men being quick to impute evil, it was to be held
with other assertions against him that he was of a Catholic family, that he
traveled without a Bible, and probably meant to betray Virginia to the
Spaniard. He was to be deposed from his presidency, return to England,