_Higginson_, 52, 110-117; _Eggleston_, 19-28; _Explorers_ 231-269.] [Sidenote: Sickness and death.] 32.

Founding of Jamestown, 1607.

The first colonists sailed for Virginia in December, 1606.

They were months on the way and suffered terrible hardships.

At last they reached Chesapeake Bay and James River and settled on a peninsula on the James, about thirty miles from its mouth.