They came in between two capes, and one they named Cape Henry after the then Prince of Wales, and the other Cape Charles for that brother of short-lived Henry who was to become Charles the First.

By Cape Henry they anchored, and numbers from the ships went ashore.

"But," says George Percy's Discourse, "we could find nothing worth the speaking of, but faire meadows and goodly tall Trees, with such Fresh-waters running through the woods as I was almost ravished at the first sight thereof.

At night, when wee were going aboard, there came the Savages creeping upon all foure from the Hills like Beares, with their Bowes in their mouths, charged us very desperately in the faces, hurt Captaine Gabriel Archer in both his hands, and a sayler in two places of the body very dangerous.

After they had spent their Arrowes and felt the sharpnesse of our shot, they retired into the Woods with a great noise, and so left us." That very night, by the ships' lanterns, Newport, Gosnold, and Ratcliffe opened the sealed box.