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.
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