"Whose valor," says his epitaph, "having shined in the Westerne, was set in the Easterne India." But now in Maytime of 1611 Dale was in Virginian waters.

By this day, beside the main settlement of Jamestown, there were at Cape Henry and Point Comfort small forts garrisoned with meager companies of men.

Dale made pause at these, setting matters in order, and then, proceeding up the river, he came to Jamestown and found the people gathered to receive him.

Presently he writes home to the Company a letter that gives a view of the place and its needs.

Any number of things must be done, requiring continuous and hard work, "as, namely, the reparation of the falling Church and so of the Store-house, a stable for our horses, a munition house, a Powder house, a new well for the amending of the most unwholesome water which the old afforded.