It was Lord De la Warr who had come to take up his governorship,
and verily he was arrived in the very point of time, for had he
been delayed four and twenty hours, we would have been on the ocean,
where was little likelihood of seeing him.
It needs not I should say that our ships were turned back, and
before nightfall Master Hunt was sitting in Captain Smith's house,
with Nathaniel Peacock and me cooking for him such a dinner as we
three had not known these six months past.
I have finished my story of Jamestown, having set myself to tell
only of what was done there while we were with Captain John Smith.
And it is well I should bring this story to an end here, for if
I make any attempt at telling what came to Nathaniel Peacock and
myself after that, then am I like to keep on until he who has begun
to read will lay down the story because of weariness.
For the satisfaction of myself, and the better pleasing of Nathaniel
Peacock, however, I will add, concerning our two selves, that we
remained in the land of Virginia until our time of apprenticeship
was ended, and then it was, that Master Hunt did for us as Captain
Smith had promised to do.
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