tte in this storme,
And to an Iland neare,
Bermoothawes called, conducted them,
Which did abate their feare.

Using the ship's boats they got to shore, though with toil and danger.
Here they found no sprites nor demons, nor even men, but a fair,
half-tropical verdure and, running wild, great numbers of swine.

And then on shoare the iland came
Inhabited by hogges,
Some Foule and tortoyses there were,
They only had one dogge,
To kill these swyne, to yield them foode,
That little had to eate.
Their store was spent and all things scant,
Alas! they wanted meate.

They did not, however, starve.

A thousand hogges that dogge did kill
Their hunger to sustaine.

Ten months the Virginia colonists lived among the "still-vex'd
Bermoothes." The Sea Adventure was but a wreck pinned between the reefs.
No sail was seen upon the blue water. Where they were thrown, there
Gates and Somers and Newport and all must stay for a time and make the
best of it. They builded huts and thatched them, and they brought from
the wrecked ship, pinned but half a mile from land, stores of many
kinds. The clime proved of the blandest, fairest; with fishing and
hunting they maintained themselves. Days, weeks, and months went by.
They had a minister, Master Buck. They brought from the ship a bell and
raised it for a church-bell. A marriage, a few deaths, the birth of two
children these were events on the island. One of these children, the
daughter of John Rolfe, gentleman, and his wife, was christened Bermuda.
Gates and Somers held kindly sway. The colonists lived in plenty, peace,
and ease. But for all that, they were shipwrecked folk, and far, far out
of the world, and they longed for the old ways and their own kin. Day
followed day, but no sail would show to bear them thence; and so at
last, taking what they could from the forests of the island, and from
the Sea Adventure, they set about to become shipwrights.

And there two gallant pynases,
Did build of Seader-tree,
The brave Deliverance one was call'd,
Of seaventy tonne was shee,
The other Patience had to name,
Her burthen thirty tonne....

... The two and forty weekes being past
They hoyst sayle and away;
Their shippes with hogges well freighted were,
Their harts with mickle joy.

And so to Virginia came...

What they found when they