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 "Knapsacks up," yelled Jimmy. "Hurrah, all off for the Cape!"

In wild excitement, each lad grabbed up the slim roll of luggage lying at his feet, made for the door and bounded out upon the sand. To the right was the vast blue Atlantic; and to the left, over the sand hills, the shores of the Bay of Lynnhaven, ancient site of the Indian village of the Chesapeakes, where, in the year 1607, the doughty adventurers from the good ships Susan Constant, Goodhope, and Discovery, made their first landing before sailing on to what was to be the first permanent settlement of the English in the New World, the famous foundation on the island of Jamestown.