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    White Returns to London

    White finally finds a very slow ship heading to England.  He got there after a very long week of sailing.  When he reached London, he discovered the fact that he had basically lost the race to Raleigh by nearly a month.  Fernandez as well as Stafford had both told a story of the colonists all safely reaching Chesapeake Bay--which is where the colonists first planned to go before they were marooned on Roanoke.  Everyone took the event to be so joyous that a book had already been published in that short time.  Only White was not as excited because he only knew that there was no chance that the colonists were to survive the winter.

White Tells Raleigh What Really Happened

    They are sitting at Durham House and Raleigh is just absolutely intent on what White is saying.  He can't believe what he has just heard.  He immediately got a ship and supplies and even wrote a letter to the colonists promising them that he would send a whole entire fleet of more ships and supplies to them in the spring to bring them home. 

    White is excited at how Raleigh responds to the news.

All Ships Are Confined to Port

    The exact time that Stafford returns to London during that month of Oct., the Council of Shipping and Mariners would allow no ships to leave port.  They said the reason was that of the war going on with Spain, but how did that make sense since the Council knew they wouldn't come to the ocean during that time that year.  That was because most of their warships had been destroyed by England's Sir Francis Drake.  The Spanish would not come that October so what was the risk?  Who ordered the ships to stay in port...and why?