"[3] Barlowe and Philip Amadas departed England with two ships on April 27, sailing down to the Canary Islands and then on to the West Indies, where they stopped briefly for food and water before sailing north along the eastern coast of Florida.
[citation needed] Two days later (July 4), they saw the coast and continued to sail for 120 miles until they could find an entrance or river going in from the sea.
Barlowe described the land as a place where "in all the world the like abundance is not to be found...."[citation needed] He and his crew were met by a large grou of the Secotan tribe, led by their king's brother Granganimeo.
Their king, Wingina, was unable to be there because of a leg wound sustained during a battle with a neighboring tribe.
Barlowe described the people of the village as "gentle, loving and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.