But the northern winter had worked against him.

He knew, for he had resided there himself with his family in that harsh clime.

"From the middle of October to the middle of May there is a sad fare of winter on all this land." He is writing to King Charles, and he goes on to say "I have had strong temptations to leave all proceedings in plantations...

but my inclination carrying me naturally to these kind of works...

I am determined to commit this place to fishermen that are able to encounter storms and hard weather, and to remove myself with some forty persons to your Majesty's dominion of Virginia where, if your Majesty will please to grant me a precinct of land...