form the new government, and had written down the names, together
with instructions as to what should be done; but this writing was
enclosed in a box which was not to be opened until we had come to
the end of our voyage.



THE LEADER NOT KNOWN


There could be no doubt but that Captain Kendall and Captain Martin
both believed that when the will of the London Company was made
known, it would be found they stood in high command; but there
was in my heart a great hope that my master might have been named.
Yet when I put the matter to him in so many words, he treated the
matter lightly, saying it could hardly be, else they had not dared
to treat him thus shamefully.

However, it was soon to be known, if the commands of the London
Company were obeyed, for now we had come to this new land of
Virginia, and the time was near at hand when would be opened the
box containing the names of those who were to be officers in the
town we hoped soon to build.

As for myself, I was so excited it seemed impossible to remain
quiet many seconds in one place, and I fear that my duties, which
consisted only in waiting upon the prisoner, my master, were
sadly neglected because of the anxiety in my mind to know who the
merchants in London had named as rulers of the settlement about to
be made in the new world.