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Across the street is Somers Garden. Here is buried the heart of brave Sir George Somers. As admiral on the Sea Venture he had successfully saved everyone on board his doomed ship, then had built the Patience nad navigated her, accompanied by the the Deliverance, to Virginia. On arrival in May at the newly-founded Jamestown they found only 60 left alive out of 500 colonists the previous autumn. The two ships form Bermuda saved the colony, and then Sir George volunteered to bring his pinnace back to Bermuda for supplies. Here, in the land he had come to love, he died; his heart and entrails were buried, his body taken to England. The Gardens were opened in 1920 by the Duke of Windsor, the then Prince of Wales. |
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