De gedenkwaardige reizen vanden beroemden Capiteyn Johan Smith na Virginien; gedaan in den jare 1606. en ...

and perceived. They anchored at the first land that appeared and went ashore, though with much difficulty. After thanking God, they surveyed everything around it and took possession of it for Her Highly-Praised Majesty. The news of this discovery was so pleasant in England that it pleased Her Majesty to name this region first Wingandacoa, now Virginia, which name it has retained to this day; and in the following description it will henceforth be called [that], wherein one shall see in what manner it was populated, abandoned again, newly occupied, and expanded.

1585.On the 9th of April, Richard Greenville sailed from Plymouth by order of Sir Walter Raleigh with 7 ships thither, but encountered many difficulties on the coast due to various banks and shallows, to the extent that some of their ships were sometimes in danger of being lost. But after much wandering, having set foot on land, they made Roanoack their residential and primary trading post, from where Captain John Arundel, along with the General, sailed back to England, leaving some ships and the necessary supplies behind. They arrived back at Plymouth on the 18th of September of the same year, but those who had remained there had little prosperity, notwithstanding that the following year they were provided for by Francis Drake, who came to the coast with 23 ships, with another ship of 70 tons, one hundred men, four months of victuals, two small pinnaces, and four rowboats, along with two experienced skippers and some sailors.

But due to an approaching four-day storm, that reinforcement and the entire fleet were so damaged that there were no other thoughts but that the entire fleet would have perished: several ships were lost, including the one of 70 tons