The Ark was left at anchor, while Leonard Calvert went exploring with the Dove.

Up the Potomac some distance he went, but at the last he wisely determined to choose for their first town a site nearer the sea.

The Dove turned and came back to the Ark, and both sailed on down the stream from St.Clement's Isle.
Before long they came to the mouth of a tributary stream flowing in from the north.

The Dove, going forth again, entered this river, which presently the party named the River St.George.Soon they came to a high bank with trees tinged with the foliage of advancing spring.

Here upon this bank the English found an Indian village and a small Algonquin group, in the course of extinction by their formidable Iroquois neighbors, the giant Susquehannocks.