Marooned

    It was all very simple.  Fernandez stopped at Roanoke and ordered his men to take White and his colonists ashore.  He told them to just well, leave them there.  White desperately begged him not to and to at least bring them to Chesapeake Bay which was about ninety miles away.  Fernandez again refused his request and plainly told him that the summer was too far wasted to take the time to carry the colonists aboard and travel to the Bay.  After that was stated, Fernandez spent a month patiently recaulking his ships. 

    Fernandez knew that Roanoke was one of the most dangerous places to take them at that certain time.  There were rampages going on that were the result of Ralph Lane.  The Secota people became victims of European diseases and were still struggling with starvation which resulted from drought and having food stolen from the Englishmen.  Because of this lack of food and all of the illness, many Secota people were dying.  These things were happening to this group of people all because of the Europeans that came to their land.  They could not possibly welcome another group of Englishmen to their homeland.