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

not a little to the officers because of the proposal to send someone to England as an envoy; finally, the decision was that they would send the Governor himself there, since they thought that no one could better represent their necessities and lack of resources than he himself, from which he tried to excuse himself as much as possible. Nevertheless, they were very insistent with him and did not stop until he accepted, provided that they would all sign that he had been forced to do so and that necessity had compelled them to it, upon which the Governor again arrived in Portsmouth that same year, amidst many disasters and adversities.

1589.

In the year 1589, three ships again set sail from Plymouth, but they did not have much better success than the previous ones; they finally arrived on the coast there after much wandering, and went ashore at Hatorask with 2 boats and 19 people, with the intention of looking for the planters who had remained there. It was late in the evening before they landed there: they did see a large fire through the woods, for which they sounded a trumpet, but received no answer. The next morning they went into the woods, crisscrossed the island, and finally found three Roman letters like C. R. O., which they immediately knew meant the place where they were to be found, according to the signal that had been agreed upon between them and Capt. White, namely: that they would carve the name of the place where they were to be found on a tree, post, or something else; and if they had gotten into any trouble, they would make it known by adding the sign of a cross next to it, since they had intended to go 50 miles further up upon his departure. However, they found no sign of any trouble, so they continued