ey might perhaps meet with English
fishing ships. So they sailed down the river, and doubtless many
hearts were heavy and sad, but others doubtless were full of joy and
thankfulness to be going back to an older home than Virginia.

The river broadened toward Chesapeake--and then, before them, what did
they see? What deliverance for those who had held on to the uttermost?
They saw the long boat of an English ship coming toward them with
flashing oars, bringing news of comfort and relief. There, indeed, off
Point Comfort lay three ships, the De La Warr, the Blessing, and the
Hercules, and they brought, with a good company and good stores, Sir
Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, appointed, over Gates, Lord Governor and
Captain General, by land and sea, of the Colony of Virginia.

The Discovery, the Virginia, the Patience, and the Deliverance thereupon
put back to that shore they thought to have left forever. Two days
later, on Sunday the 10th of June, 1610, there anchored before Jamestown
the De La Warr, the Blessing, and the Hercules; and it was thus that the
new Lord Governor wrote home: "I... in the afternoon went ashore, where
after a sermon made by Mr. Buck... I caused my commission to be read,
upon which Sir Thomas Gates delivered up...unto me his owne commission,
both patents, and the counsell seale; and then I delivered some few
wordes unto the Company.... and after... did constitute and give place
of office and chardge to divers Captaines and gentlemen and elected unto
me a counsaile."

The dead was alive again. Saith Rich's ballad:

And to the adventurers* thus he writes,
"Be not dismayed at all,
For scandall cannot doe us wrong,
God will not let us fall.
Let England knowe our willingnesse,
For that our worke is good,
WE HOPE TO PLANT A NATION
WHERE NONE BEFORE HATH STOOD."

* The Virginia Company.

CHAPTER VI. SIR THOMAS DALE

In a rebuilded Jamestown, Lord De La Warr, of "approved courage, temper
and experience," held for a short interval dignified, seigneurial sway,
while his restless associates adventured far and wide. Sir George Somers
sailed back to the Bermudas to gather a cargo of the wild swine of those
woods, but illness seized him there, and he died among the beautiful
islands. That Captain Samuel Argall who had traversed for the Company
the short road from the Canaries took up Smith's fallen mantle and
carried on the work of e