In due time he reached England, and in due time he turned and came again to Virginia.

But long was the sailing to and fro between the daughter country and the mother country and the lading and unlading at either shore.

It was seven months before Newport came again.
While he sails, and while England-in-America watches for him longingly, look for a moment at the attitude of Spain, falling old in the procession of world-powers, but yet with grip and cunning left.

Spain misliked that English New World venture.

She wished to keep these seas for her own; only, with waning energies, she could not always enforce what she conceived to be her right.