6 BERMUDA. 



The expedition, after a favourable run to the 

 Gulf of Bahama, encountered a severe hurricane. 

 The vessels were each driven in a different direction, 

 and the crew of the principal one, the Sea Adventure, 

 with whom were Sir Thomas Gates, Admiral Sir' 

 George Somers, and Captain Newport, — the former 

 to act as deputy governor under Lord Delaware, — 

 were miraculously preserved from a watery grave, 

 by the vessel being wedged between two rocks,* at 

 the east end of Bermuda ; and by means of a boat 

 and skiff, the whole, to the number of one hundred 

 and fifty men, with a great portion of the provi- 

 sions and tackhng, were landed. 



With as little delay as possible after their sad 

 disaster, the crew of the ill-fated vessel got in 

 readiness and despatched the long-boat, with Kaven 

 the mate, and eight men, to Virginia, to bring ship- 

 ping for their conveyance; but after eight months 

 had elapsed, no tidings of the boat's crew arrived ; . 

 and Sir George and his men built two cedar vessels, 

 one of eighty tons, the Deliverance, and the other 

 of thirty tons, the Patience. There was but one bolt 

 of iron in Sir George's vessel, and that was in her 

 keel. The seams of both vessels were closed up 



» The shore is now called, from the name of the ship, Sea 

 Adventure Flat. 



