when he returned to england, he wrote a book called "a voyage into new england, begun in 1623, and ended in 1624, performed by christopher levett, his majesty's woodward of somersetshire, and one of the council of new england." it was levett's hope to stir settlement in the new world, and he hoped as the principal patentee (and first settler) of present-day portland, maine, to benefit financially from the arrangement.