Nantaquas checked his boat when a hundred yards from the largest vessel. Inasmuch as that kept moving, he dallied with his paddle just enough to hold his graceful craft abreast. Captain John Smith, the famous navigator, Bartholomew Gosnold, Wingfield, Newport, Ratcliffe, Martin and Kendall—all of whom had been named as Councillors by King James—were at the rail of the _Sarah Constant_, looking off and down at the visitors, who, although they had come so close, hesitated to draw nearer to the vessel.