storms which drove her out of her course. It was debated for some time among those who were in authority at Jamestown as to whether this ship should also be loaded with a cargo of the supposed ore and sent back to England. In the end it was decided to fill her with cedar.
In the autumn of 1608 the Second Supply arrived in charge of Captain Newport, who had received private instructions from the Council in England to remain in Virginia until he had found a lump of gold, or was assured of the true route to the South Sea, or had recovered at least one of the lost colonists of Raleigh.[1] Among the persons who accompanied him on the occasion of this voyage were several foreigners, who were to be employed in the manufacture of pitch, tar, glass, and soap ashes, and in the erection of saw-mills. One of them, an Helvetian, Faldoe by name, attended Newport in the expedition made under his command into the Monacan country for the purpose of finding a way to the South Sea, and in the search for metals entered upon after the original, purpose of the exploration had been abandoned, and which, it seems, led to the discovery of two mines, this man, who must have wandered somewhat from the main body, flattered himself that he had found the site of valuable veins of silver. He was permitted, doubtless on account of his knowledge of this supposed deposit of ore, to return to England with Newport, and laying news of it before the merchants of the London Company, he produced such an impression upon that body that they rewarded him substantially, and sent him back to the Colony with Lord Delaware.[2]
- ↑ Works of Capt. John Smith, p. 434.
- ↑ "Our people in their first discovery into the Monacan country discovered two mynes, the one within six miles of the head of the falls which takes the name of Namantack, the fynder of it: which is conceaved wil be worth the exploring and with little charge; the other lyes in the myd-waie betweene twoo townes of Monacan, the neerest called
