Here they gathered a mineral which, when powdered, they sprinkled over themselves and their idols "making them," says the relation, "like blackamoors dusted over with silver." The white men filled their boat with as much of this ore as they could carry.

High were their hopes over it, but when it was subsequently sent to London and assayed, it was found to be worthless.
The fifteen now started homeward, out of Potomac and down the westward side of Chesapeake.

In their travels they saw, besides the Indians, all manner of four-footed Virginians.

Bears rolled their bulk through these forests; deer went whither they would.

The explorers might meet foxes and catamounts, otter, beaver and marten, raccoon and opossum, wolf and Indian dog.