CHAPTER V.THE "SEA ADVENTURE".
Experience is a great teacher.

That London Company with Virginia to colonize had now come to see how inadequate to the attempt were its means and strength.

Evidently it might be long before either gold mines or the South Sea could be found.

The company's ships were too slight and few; colonists were going by the single handful when they should go by the double.

Something was at fault in the management of the enterprise.
The quarrels in Virginia were too constant, the disasters too frequent.
More money, more persons interested with purse and mind, a great company instead of a small, a national cast to the enterprise these were imperative needs.