There had been no difficulty recruiting sailors willing, even anxious, to sign on for the voyage to the Chesapeake. Since the end of the war with Spain and the end of privateering, out-of-work sailors thronged every port looking for any work that would put a few shillings in their pockets. Taverns near the London waterfront and inns and all along the docks must have been filled with talk of how a fleet headed for Virginia was taking on able-bodied men. To these men, work--any work--would have been attractive,