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.