THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Indian h^^" house. 'While we were at meat there came in at the 

 courtesy, gates two or three men with their bows and arrows from 

 hunting, whom when we espied, we began to look one 

 towards another, and offered to reach our weapons : 

 but as soon as she espied our mistrust, she was very- 

 much moved, and caused some of her men to run out, 

 and take away their bows and arrows and break them, and 

 withal beat the poor fellows out of the gate again. When 

 we departed in the evening and would not tarry all night, 

 she was very sorry, and gave us into our boat our supper 

 half-dressed, pots and all, and brought us to our boat side, 

 in which we lay all night, removing the same a pretty 

 distance from the shore. She perceiving our jealousy 

 was much grieved, and sent divers men and thirty 

 women to sit all night on the bank-side by us, and 

 sent us into our boats fine mats to cover us from the 

 rain, using very many words to intreat us to rest in their 

 houses. But because we were few men, and if we had 

 miscarried the voyage had been in very great danger, we 

 durst not adventure anything, although there was no 

 cause of doubt ; for a more kind and loving people there 

 cannot be found in the world, as far as we have hitherto 

 had trial.' 



Who does not recognise, in this description of native 

 humanity and delicate courtesy, the beginning of an oft- 

 repeated drama, played to its bitter end in Hispaniola, in 

 North America, and in many an island of the South Seas ? 

 The first The report of the captains pleased Queen Elizabeth, who 

 attempt to gtood god-mother to the new colony, naming it Virginia ; 

 Virginia, and in 1585 Raleigh furnished a fleet of seven ships to 

 go and take effective possession. There was some ques- 

 tion of entrusting the command of the venture to Sir 



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