at Plymouth on the 18th of October. There were left in Virginia as
Raleigh's 'First Colonie,' one hundred and nine men. They remained there
one whole year and then, discontented, returned to England in July 1586
in Sir Francis Drake's fleet coming home victorious from the West Indies.

One of these 109 men was Thomas Hariot the Author of the Report of
Virginia. Another was John White the painter. To these two earnest and
true men we owe, as has been said, nearly all we know of 'Ould
Virginia.' Their story is briefly told by Hakluyt.

Sir Francis Drake in the true spirit of friendship went out of his way
to make this call on the Colony of his friend Raleigh. He found them
anything but contented and prosperous. They had long been expecting
supplies and reinforcements from home, which not arriving, on the
departure of Drake's fleet becoming dejected and homesick, they
petitioned the Governor for permission to return. Immediately after
their departure a ship arrived from Raleigh, and fourteen days later Sir
Richard Grenville himself returned with his fleet of three ships, new
planters and stores of supplies, only to find the Colony deserted and no
tidings to be had. Leaving twenty men to hold possession the Admiral
made his way back to England.

It has already been stated how and under what circumstances the epitome
of the labours and surveys of Hariot came to be printed, but it may be
well to show how it came to be united with John White's drawings and
republished a year or two later as the first part of De Bry's celebrated
collections of voyages. Hakluyt returned to Paris at the end of 1584.
and remained there, perhaps with an occasional visit to London, till
1588, always working in the interests of Raleigh. In April 1585, a month
before the departure of the Virginia fleet, he wrote to Walsingham that