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BAYNE: THE SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA ie 
The country looked on with interest, but desirable volunteers 
in sufficient number were slow to join the expedition, and men to 
make good colonists were difficult to get. But they did the best 
they could. By December three vessels obtained from the Mus- 
covy Company, the Sarah Constant of 100 tons burthen, the Good- 
speed of 40 tons, and the Discovery of 20 tons, were manned and 
weighted with adventurers and supplies, all placed under the con- 
trol of Captain Christopher Newport, an experienced and faithful 
mariner. 
The poet laureate wafted them a farewell ode. The court, full 
of business, at last gave the final word to go, and after the last 
goodbye was said the three little ships weighed anchor and set sail 
from Blackwall on the Thames. 
Perhaps I can give you no better description of the voyage than 
by adopting the quaint account of it by one of the party, published 
a few years afterwards. 
“On the 19th of December, 1606, we set saile, but by unpros- 
perous winds, were kept six weekes in the sight of England; all 
which time Maister Hunt, our preacher, was so weake and sicke, 
that few expected his recoverie. Yet although we were but ten 
or twelve miles from his habitation (the time we were in the 
Downes), and notwithstanding the stormie weather nor the scan- 
dalous imputations (of some few, little better than atheists, of the 
greatest ranke amongst us), suggested against him; all this could 
never force from him so much as a seeming desire to leave the 
business; but preferred the service of Godin so good a voyage, 
before any affection to contest with his godlesse foes, whose dis- 
astrous designes (could they have prevailed) had even then over- 
throwne the businesse; so many discontents did then arise; had he 
not, with the water of patience, and his godly exhortations (but 
chiefly by his true devoted examples) quenched those flames of 
envie and dissention. 
“ Wee watred at the Canaries; wee traded with the salvages at 
Dominica ; three weekes we spent in refreshing ourselves amongst 
these West India Isles; in Gwardalupa we found a bath so hot, 
