th the
Werowance of Paspihe. One Englishman had been killed, a number wounded.
Four of the Council had each man his wound.

Newport must now lift anchor and sail away to England. He left at
Jamestown a fort "having three Bulwarkes at every corner like a halfe
Moone, and foure or five pieces of Artillerie mounted in them," a street
or two of reed-thatched cabins, a church to match, a storehouse, a
market-place and drill ground, and about all a stout palisade with a
gate upon the river side. He left corn sown and springing high, and some
food in the storehouse. And he left a hundred Englishmen who had now
tasted of the country fare and might reasonably fear no worse chance
than had yet befallen. Newport promised to return in twenty weeks with
full supplies.

John Smith says that his enemies, chief amongst whom was Wingfield,
would have sent him with Newport to England, there to stand trial for
attempted mutiny, whereupon he demanded a trial in Virginia, and got it
and was fully cleared. He now takes his place in the Council, beforetime
denied him. He has good words only for Robert Hunt, the chaplain, who,
he says, went from one to the other with the best of counsel. Were they
not all here in the wilderness together, with the savages hovering about
them like the Philistines about the Jews of old? How should the English
live, unless among themselves they lived in amity? So for the moment
factions were reconciled, and all went to church to partake of the Holy
Communion.

Newport sailed, having in the holds of his ships sassafras and valuable
woods but no gold to meet the London Council's hopes, nor any certain
news of the South Sea. In due time he reached England, and in due time
he turned and came again to Virginia. But long was the sailing to and
fro between the daughter country and the mother country and the lading
and unlading at either shore. It was seven months before Newport came
again.

While he sails, and while England-in-America watches for him longingly,
look for a moment at the attitude of Spain, falling old in the
procession of world-powers, but yet with grip and cunning left. Spain
misliked that English New World venture. She wished to keep these seas
for her own; only, with waning energies, she could not always enforce
what she conceived to be her right. By now there was seen to be much
clay indeed in the image. Philip the Second was dead; and Philip the
Third, an indolent king, lived in the Escurial.