A few days, and away
he is again, first up to Rappahannock, and then across the bay. On this
journey he and his men come up with the giant Susquehannocks, who are
not Algonquins but Iroquois. After many hazards in which the forest
and the savage play their part, Smith and his band again return to
Jamestown. In all this adventuring they have gained much knowledge of
the country and its inhabitants--but yet no gold, and no further news of
the South Sea or of far Cathay.

It was now September and the second summer with its toll of fever
victims was well-nigh over. Autumn and renewed energy were at hand. All
the land turned crimson and gold. At Jamestown building went forward,
together with the gathering of ripened crops, the felling of trees,
fishing and fowling, and trading for Indian corn and turkeys.

One day George Percy, heading a trading party down the river, saw coming
toward him a white sailed ship, the Mary and Margaret-it was Christopher
Newport again, with the second supply. Seventy colonists came over on
the Mary and Margaret, among them a fair number of men of note. Here
were Captain Peter Wynne and Richard Waldo, "old soldiers and valiant
gentlemen," Francis West, young brother of the Lord De La Warr, Rawley
Crashaw, John Codrington, Daniel Tucker, and others. This is indeed an
important ship. Among the laborers, the London Council had sent eight
Poles and Germans, skilled in their own country in the production of
pitch, tar, glass, and soap-ashes. Here, then, begin in Virginia other
blood strains than the English. And in the Mary and Margaret comes with
Master Thomas Forest his wife, Mistress Forest, and her maid, by name
Anne Burras. Apart from those lost ones of Raleigh's colony at Roanoke,
these are the first Englishwomen in Virginia. There may be guessed what
welcome they got, how much was made of them.

Christopher Newport had from that impatient London Council somewhat
strange orders. He was not to return without a lump of gold, or a
certain discovery of waters pouring into the South Sea, or some notion
gained of the fate of the lost colony of Roanoke. He had been given a
barge which could be taken to pieces and so borne around those Falls of
the Far West, then put together, and the voyage to the Pacific resumed.
Moreover, he had for Powhatan, whom the minds at home figured as a sort
of Asiatic Despot, a gilt crown and a fine ewer and basin, a bedstead,
and a gorgeous robe.

The easiest task, that