Then, personal and family matters calling, he sailed away home to England, to return no more.

Soon his star "having shined in the Westerne, was set in the Easterne India." At the helm in Virginia he left George Yeardley, an honest, able man.

But in England, what was known as the "court party" in the Company managed to have chosen instead for De La Warr's deputy governor, Captain Samuel Argall.

It proved an unfortunate choice.

Argall, a capable and daring buccaneer, fastened on Virginia as on a Spanish galleon.