For this information, the Virginia adventurers were indebted to the muscovy Company, with which Captain Christopher Newport, who commanded the ships dispatched to Virginia, had formerly served.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
The explorers found instead a profitable trade with the territories of Ivan the Terrible, but the muscovy merchants continued to support a variety of ventures seeking the establishment of an Oriental trade.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
Consistently, the leadership of Elizabethan adventures to North America, including those of Gilbert and Raleigh, had come from the western counties and outports of England, and with equal consistency hopeful projects had foundered on the inadequacy of their financial support while London favored other ventures-to muscovy, to the Levant, and more recently to the East Indies.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven