wee anchored at the Ile of Mevis. There the Captaine landed
all his men.... We incamped ourselves on this Ile six days.... The tenth
day [April] we set saile and disimboged out of the West Indies and bare
our course Northerly.... The six and twentieth day of Aprill, about
foure a clocke in the morning, wee descried the Land of Virginia."*

* Percy's "Discourse in Purchas, His Pilgrims," vol. IV, p.
1684. Also given in Brown's "Genesis of the United States",
vol. I, p. 152.

During the long months of this voyage, cramped in the three ships, these
men, most of them young and of the hot-blooded, physically adventurous
sort, had time to develop strong likings and dislikings. The hundred and
twenty split into opposed camps. The several groups nursed all manner of
jealousies. Accusations flew between like shuttlecocks. The sealed box
that they carried proved a manner of Eve's apple. All knew that seven on
board were councilors and rulers, with one of the number President, but
they knew not which were the seven. Smith says that this uncertainty
wrought much mischief, each man of note suggesting to himself, "I shall
be President--or, at least, Councilor!" The ships became cursed with
a pest of factions. A prime quarrel arose between John Smith and
Edward-Maria Wingfield, two whose temperaments seem to have been poles
apart. There arose a "scandalous report, that Smith meant to reach
Virginia only to usurp the Government, murder the Council, and proclaim
himself King." The bickering deepened into forthright quarrel, with at
last the expected explosion. Smith was arrested, was put in irons, and
first saw Virginia as a prisoner.

On the twenty-sixth day of April, 1607, the Susan Constant, the
Goodspeed, and the Discovery entered Chesapeake Bay. They came in
between two capes, and one they named Cape Henry after the then Prince
of Wales, and the other Cape Charles for that brother of short-lived
Henry who was to become Charles the First. By Cape Henry they anchored,
and numbers from the ships went ashore. "But," says George Percy's
Discourse, "we could find nothing worth the speaking of, but faire
meadows and goodly tall Trees, with such Fresh-waters running through
the woods as I was almost ravished at the first sight thereof. At night,
when wee were going aboard, there came the Savages creeping upon all
foure from the Hills like Beares, with their Bowes in their mouths,
charged us very desperately in the faces,