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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
exploration. It was he who found, and named for the Lord Governor, Delaware
Bay. He went up the Potomac and traded for corn; rescued an English boy
from the Indians; had brushes with the savages. In the autumn back to
England with a string of ships went that tried and tested seafarer
Christopher Newport. Virginia wanted many things, and chiefly that the
Virginia Company should excuse defect and remember promise. So Gates sailed
with Newport to make true report and guide exertion. Six months passed, and
the Lord Governor himself fell ill and must home to England. So away he,
too, went and for seven years until his death ruled from that distance
through a deputy governor. De La Warr was a man of note and worth, old
privy councilor of Elizabeth and of James, soldier in the Low Countries,
strong Protestant and believer in England-in-America. Today his name is
borne by a great river, a great bay, and by one of the United States.
In London, the Virginia Company, having listened to Gates, projected a
fourth supply for the colony. Of those hundreds who had perished in
Virginia, many had been true and intelligent men, and again many perhaps
had been hardly that. But the Virginia Company was now determined to
exercise for the future a discrimination. It issued a broadside, making
known that it was sending a new supply of men and all necessary provision
in a fleet of good ships, under the conduct of Sir Thomas Gates and Sir
Thomas Dale, and that it was not intended any more to burden the action
with "vagrant and unnecessary persons .
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