HISTORY. 7 



with a mixture of lime and oil, for the purpose of 

 making them water-tight. 



In commemoration of the unfortunate shipwreck, 

 Gates attached a wooden cross to a large cedar-tree, 

 and placed a silver coin, together with an inscription 

 on a copper plate, in the middle of it, which ran 

 as follows : — " That the cross was the remains of 

 a ship of three hundred tons, called the Sea Adven- 

 ture, bound, with eight more, to Virginia. That 

 she contained two knights, — ■ Sir Thomas Gates, 

 Governor of the Colony, and Sir George Summers, 

 Admiral of the Seas, — who, together with her 

 captain, Christopher Newport, and one hundred 

 and fifty marines and passengers besides, had 

 got safe ashore, when she was lost, 28th July, 

 1609." 



Gates and Somers left Bermuda for Virginia on the 

 10th May, 1610, in their little cedar vessels, having 

 left two men behind ; and they arrived at Jamestown 

 on the 23rd May. Sir George, after remaining but a 

 short time at Jamestown, left that place for Bermuda 

 in company with Captain Argall, afterwards Go- 

 vernor of Virginia. They were driven northwards 

 by contrary winds, near to Cape Cod, where they 

 were enveloped in such dense fogs that their two 

 vessels were separated, and Argall returned to his 



