or the new england area, that he set up -- he tried to put in a colony on what we think now is elizabeth isles. there's a town named gosnold up there next to martha's vineyard. lasted six weeks. the indian trading didn't work out the way he thought it would. so he went back, nobody died. but he had the experience of how to navigate over to the new world. he then went back and he had connections. and that's the way it works. still works that way. his -- one of his -- some of his relatives were in -- it was a courtier in the court. so he could get the charter that sir walter rally already had. so he had the legal means to do it. he had another relative who was one of the richest merchants in england. so he had a way of funding an expedition to virginia, and sew put the scheme together in a little place calledotly inotly hall near ipswich in new england. and had a connection through another man who brought in captain john smith, and they all got together and they decided they were going to try and do this colony. formed the virginia company. joint stock venture, one of the earliest, if not the ea