116-118.
It would seem that there was cause indeed for watching down the river by that small, small town that was all of the United States! But there follows a Spanish memorandum.

"The driving out...

by the fleet stationed to the windward will be postponed for a long time because delay will be caused by getting it ready."* Delay followed delay, and old Spain--conquistador Spain--grew older, and the speech on Jamestown Island is still English.
* Op.cit., vol.1, p.

127.
Christopher Newport was gone; no ships--the last refuges, the last possibilities for home-turning, should the earth grow too hard and the sky too black--rode upon the river before the fort.

Here was the summer heat.