Another of the band carried a sword, another a club, and another a pot-stick, and all were horned as Pocahontas.

Casting themselves in a ring about the fire, they danced and sang for the space of an hour, and then with a shout departed into the woods as suddenly as they came.[20] On the momentous voyage to Virginia Captain Newport took the old route by the Canary Islands and the West Indies, and they were four months on the voyage.

In the West Indies Smith and Wingfield quarrelled, and the latter charged Smith with plotting mutiny, so that he was arrested and kept in irons till Virginia was reached.

After leaving the West Indies bad weather drove them from their course; but, April 26, 1607, they saw the capes of Virginia, which were forthwith named Henry and Charles, after the two sons of King James.
Landing at Cape Henry, they set up a cross April 29, and there they had their first experience with the Indians.

The Chesapeakes assaulted them and wounded two men.