But for all that, they were shipwrecked folk, and far, far out of the world, and they longed for the old ways and their own kin.

Day followed day, but no sail would show to bear them thence; and so at last, taking what they could from the forests of the island, and from the Sea Adventure, they set about to become shipwrights.
And there two gallant pynases, Did build of Seader-tree, The brave Deliverance one was call'd, Of seaventy tonne was shee, The other Patience had to name, Her burthen thirty tonne....
...

The two and forty weekes being past They hoyst sayle and away; Their shippes with hogges well freighted were, Their harts with mickle joy.
And so to Virginia came...
What they found when they came to Virginia was dolor enough.

On Jamestown strand they beheld sixty skeletons "who had eaten all the quick things that weare there, and some of them had eaten snakes and adders." Somers, Gates, and Newport, on entering the town, found it "rather as the ruins of some auntient fortification than that any people living might now inhabit it." A pitiable outcome, this, of all the hopes of fair "harbours and habitations," of golden dreams, and farflung dominion.

All those whom Raleigh had sent to Roanoke were lost or had perished.