After the relation of this discovery up unto Sir W. Raleigh by the said captaines, that part of the country about Roanoack (beyond which lieth the maine land) was conceaved to be an apt and likely place, both for seat and riches, for a colony to be transported unto; whereupon, the next yeare following, anno 1585, Sir W. Raleigh prepared a fleete of seven sailes, with one hundred howsholders, and many things necessary to begin a new State, which in Aprill departed from Plymouth; Sir Richard Greenvile generall of the same, accompanied with many choyse and principall gentlemen,— Mr. Ralph Lane, Mr. Thomas Candish, Mr. John Arundell, Mr. Reymond, Mr. Stukely, Mr. Bremige, Mr. Vincent, Mr. John Clark, and divers others, some captaines, and other assistents, for councell and good discretions in the voyage, all and every of which, in their severall places, refused no travaile of body, nor carefulnes of mynd, to lay the foundacion and beat the path to that great and goodly worke which God, I hope by us, in His appointed tyme, will nowe finishe to His owne glory, to the salvation of poore seduced infidells, and to the never dying fame and honour of those noble and praise worthy spiritts who shall personally travell in the same.

The most of this fleete by the twentieth of June fell with the maine of Florida, and keeping by the coast, were in some daunger the twenty-fifth of a general wrack on a beach called the Cape of Feare; but the twenty-sixth ancored safe at Wocokon, by Secota, four daies' journey short of Hatorask, where the Admirall, through the unskilfulnes of the master.