His forces were not of habilitie to revenge upon the Indian, nor his owne supply (now brought from the Bermudas) sufficient to relieve his people." So he called a Council and listened in turn to Sir George Somers, to Christopher Newport, and to "the gentlemen and Counsaile of the former Government." The end and upshot was that none could see other course than to abandon the country.
England-in-America had tried and failed, and had tried again and failed.
God, or the course of Nature, or the current of History was against her.
Perhaps in time stronger forces and other attempts might yet issue from England.

But now the hour had come to say farewell! Upon the bosom of the river swung two pinnaces, the Discovery and the Virginia, left by the departing ships months before, and the Deliverance and the Patience, the Bermuda pinnaces.

Thus the English abandoned the little town that was but three years old.

Aboard the four small ships they went, and down the broad river, between the flowery shores, they sailed away.

Doubtless under the trees on either hand were Indians watching this retreat of the invaders of their forests.