savage play their part, Smith and his band again return to Jamestown. In
all this adventuring they have gained much knowledge of the country and its
inhabitants--but yet no gold, and no further news of the South Sea or of
far Cathay.

It was now September and the second summer with its toll of fever victims
was well-nigh over. Autumn and renewed energy were at hand. All the land
turned crimson and gold. At Jamestown building went forward, together with
the gathering of ripened crops, the felling of trees, fishing and fowling,
and trading for Indian corn and turkeys.

One day George Percy, heading a trading party down the river, saw coming
toward him a white sailed ship, the Mary and Margaret-it was Christopher
Newport again, with the second supply. Seventy colonists came over on the
Mary and Margaret, among them a fair number of men of note. Here were
Captain Peter Wynne and Richard Waldo, "old soldiers and valiant gentlemen,"
Francis West, young brother of the Lord De La Warr, Rawley Crashaw, John
Codrington, Daniel Tucker, and others. This is indeed an important ship. Among
the laborers, the London Council had sent eight Poles and Germans, skilled in
their own country in the production of pitch, tar, glass, and soap-ashes.
Here, then, begin in Virginia other blood strains than the English. And in the
Mary and Margaret comes with Master Thomas Forest his wife, Mistress Forest,
and her maid, by name Anne Burras. Apart from those lost ones of Raleigh's
colony at Roanoke, these are the first Englishwomen in Virginia. There may be
guessed what welcome they got, how much was made of them.

Christopher Newport had from that impatient London Council somewhat strange
orders. He was not to return without a lump of gold, or a certain discovery
of waters pouring into the South Sea, or some notion gained of the fate of
the lost colony of Roanoke. He had been given a barge which could be taken