brought from the ship a bell and raised it for a church-bell. A marriage, a
few deaths, the birth of two children these were events on the island. One
of these children, the daughter of John Rolfe, gentleman, and his wife, was
christened Bermuda. Gates and Somers held kindly sway. The colonists lived
in plenty, peace, and ease. But for all that, they were shipwrecked folk,
and far, far out of the world, and they longed for the old ways and their
own kin. Day followed day, but no sail would show to bear them thence; and
so at last, taking what they could from the forests of the island, and from
the Sea Adventure, they set about to become shipwrights.

And there two gallant pynases,
Did build of Seader-tree,
The brave Deliverance one was call'd,
Of seaventy tonne was shee,
The other Patience had to name,
Her burthen thirty tonne . . . .

. . . The two and forty weekes being past
They hoyst sayle and away;
Their shippes with hogges well freighted were,
Their harts with mickle joy.

And so to Virginia came . . .

What they found when they came to Virginia was dolor enough. On Jamestown
strand they beheld sixty skeletons "who had eaten all the quick things that
weare there, and some of them had eaten snakes and adders." Somers, Gates,
and Newport, on entering the town, found it "rather as the ruins of some
auntient fortification than that any people living might now inhabit it."