514 A. E.Verr'dl — The Bermuda Islands. 



persons on board, probably with the same disease. Her captain aixl 

 many passengers had died. She encountered a storm close by the 

 islands, so that it was eight days before she entered the harbor. 



In this same storm a large Spanish vessel was wrecked on the 

 western reef, but no lives were lost, though they had to abandon 

 their ship about ten miles from land, and many of the passengers 

 came ashore on a raft, at Mangrove Bay. This wreck and the 

 recovering of goods and ordnance led to considerable excitement 

 here, and subsequent investigation in London. But the officers and 

 men testified that they were treated with great kindness b} r the 

 governor. 



It is recorded by Governor Butler, that the magazine ship 

 "James" arrived at the Bermudas the last of October, 1621, also in 

 a very sickly condition. The master had died, as well as some of 

 the passengers* and crew. We can scarcely doubt that this infection 

 was also the bubonic plague. 



* In this vessel were sent out two Indian maidens, who were sent to Bermuda 

 in order that they might find white husbands, as was officially stated. These 

 maidens were two of the three companions who accompanied Pocahontas to Eng- 

 land in 1616. They were daughters of Indian chiefs. One had died in England, 

 of consumption, in 1620 ; another died on the plague -infected ship in which she 

 sailed for Bermuda. Pocahontas herself had died in England and was buried 

 March 21, 1617, according to the parish register at Gravesend. 



Governor Butler mentions this event as follows : 



' ; Ther wer also two Virginian virgins (one wherof died by the way at sea) 

 shypped by the Virginia Company, and very well supplied by them, who wer 

 by that Company recommended unto the Gouvernour, as being not only one of 

 the Company, but a sworne counsellor in that plantation, that by his care and 

 anthoritie honest English husbands might ther be provided for them (a harder 

 task in this place than they wer aware of), who together, after some staye in the 

 Hands, might be transported home to their sauvage parents in Virginia (who wer 

 ther nolesse than petie kinges), and so be happely a meanes of their conversion." 



The only remaining Indian maiden, according to Governor Butler, was well 

 married about April, 1622, at Bermuda, as had been recommended by the Gover- 

 nor of the Virginia Company. " She being then married to as fitt and agreeable 

 an husband as the place would afford, and the weddinge feast kept at the towne, in 

 the Governour's newe house, and at his charge." The wedding was celebrated 

 by a great feast, and in order to further increase the friendship between her 

 people, the Indians, and the Virginia settlers, the Governor wrote letters of 

 advice to the Governor of Virginia and "Caused the inayde herself likewise to 

 do as much to her brother, who, by her father's late death, had succeeded in all 

 his royalties and commande." 



Governor Butler did not mention the name of the maiden, nor that of her 

 husband. Nor does he refer to her subsequent history. This marriage took 

 place during the visit of a vessel that came from Virginia for provisions in 

 March, 1621, and remained five weeks. 



