Trees there were of size fit for masts to the king's ships; flowers
bordered the shore until there were seemingly great waves of this
color, or of that, as far as eye could reach, and set within this
dazzling array of green and gold, and of red and yellow, was a
great sea, which Captain Smith said was called the Chesapeake Bay.

We entered for some distance, mayhap three or four miles, before
coming to anchor, and then Master Wingfield, Captain Gosnold, and
Captain Newport went on shore with a party of thirty, made up of
seamen and gentlemen, and my master, who had not so much as stretched
his legs since we sailed from Martinique, was left in his narrow
cabin with none but me to care for him!

I had thought they would open the box containing the instructions
from London, before doing anything else; but Captain Smith was
of the mind that such business could wait until they had explored
sufficiently to find a place where the new town might be built.

It was a long, weary, anxious day for me. The party had left the
ship in the morning, remaining absent until nightfall, and at least
four or five times every hour did I run up from the cabin to gaze
shoreward in the hope of seeing them return, for I was most eager to
have the business pushed forward, and to know whether my master's
enemies were given, by the London Company, permission to do whatsoever
they pleased.



AN ATTACK BY THE SAVAGES