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In May 1587 White's colonists sailed for Virginia in The Lion.

They were guided by the Portuguese navigator Simon Fernandez, the same pilot who had led the 1585 expedition and who was given by his fellow sailors the unhappy nickname of " the swine ".

The settlers ' chosen destination was not Roanoke but the Chesapeake Bay but, on reaching Roanoake in late July, and allowing the colonists to disembark, Fernandez refused to let White's men re-board ship.

According to White's journal, Fernandez's deputy " called to the sailors in the pinesse, charging them not to bring any of the planters back againe, but leave them on the island ".

Faced with what amounted to a mutiny by his navigator, White appears to have backed down and acquiesced in this sudden change of plan.

Despite the governor's protests, Fernandez held that " summer was farre spent, wherefore hee would land all the planters in no other place.

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