But New Englanders traded still in South Virginia as along other coasts.

Seafarers, they entered at this inlet and at that, crossed the wide blue sounds, and, anchoring in mouths of rivers, purchased from the settlers their forest commodities.

Then over they ran to the West Indies, and got in exchange sugar and rum and molasses, with which again they traded for tobacco in Carolina, in Virginia, and in Maryland.

These ships went often to New Providence in the Bahamas and to Barbados.

There began, through trade and other circumstances, a special connection between the long coast line and these islands that were peopled by the English.