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velvet breeches, these with "panes" or slashings of silk. 

 The Spanish dagger which gentlemen of then were 

 wont to carry must have been left behind, likewise the 

 fine gilt-handled sword; for in explanation of the as- 

 sault made by five "saulvages" upon the party, in 

 which two of the English were severely wounded, it is 

 stated that they were unarmed. Curiously significant 

 of the carelessness with which these restless blades had 

 come in search of change and adventure and riches, is 

 just this simple statement — that they who habitually 

 wore arms, landed thus without them, on a shore known 

 to be teeming with aboriginal inhabitants, whose 

 friendliness of one time was by now very doubtful. 

 The experience of Raleigh's lost colony of the decade 

 previous seems not to have impressed them as one would 

 suppose. 



The three small ships which Newport commanded 

 brought a total number of one hundred and five pas- 

 sengers. Of these, only eighteen were avowedly men 

 of toil — laborers; more than fifty names on the list 

 have "gentleman" standing opposite them, one was a 

 clergyman, six were the nucleus of the Provincial Coun- 

 cil — these "gentlemen" also, of course; the names of 

 the remaining seven of the Council were not to be 

 revealed until all were landed and the sealed box con- 

 taining the king's final instructions and these names, 

 might be opened — and there was a barber to curl their 



