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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 
