s; some
were brave; most of them timorous and cautious; all savage. Not
ungrateful for benefits, they seldom forgave an injury. They rarely
stole from each other, lest their conjurors should reveal the offence,
and they should be punished.[91:A]

FOOTNOTES:

[85:A] Notes on Va., 104, ed. 1853.

[89:A] Strachey's Virginia Britannica.

[91:A] Smith, ii. 129, 137; Beverley, B. iii.; Drake's Book of the
Indians; Thatcher's Lives of the Indians; Bancroft's History of U. S.,
vol. iii. cap. xxii.

CHAPTER VII.

1609-1614.

Condition of the Colony at the time of Smith's Departure--
Assaults of Indians--"The Starving Time"--The Sea-Venture--
Situation of the English on the Island of Bermuda--They Embark
for Virginia--Arrive at Jamestown--Jamestown abandoned--
Colonists meet Lord Delaware's Fleet--Return to Jamestown--
Delaware's Discipline--The Church at Jamestown--Sir George
Somers--Delaware returns to England--Percy, Governor--New
Charter--Sir Thomas Dale, Governor--Martial Laws--Henrico
Founded--Plantations and Hundreds settled--Argall makes
Pocahontas a Prisoner--Dale's expedition up York River--Rolfe
visits Powhatan--Dale returns to Jamestown--Rolfe marries
Pocahontas--The Chickahominies enter into Treaty of Peace--
Community of Goods abolished--Argall's Expeditions against the
French in Acadia--Captures Fort at New Amsterdam.

CAPTAIN SMITH, upon embarking for England, left at Jamestown three
ships, seven boats, a sufficient stock of provision, four hundred and
ninety odd settlers, twenty pieces of cannon, three hundred muskets,
with other guns, pikes, swords, and ammunition, and one hundred soldiers
acquainted with the Indian language, and the nature of the
country.[92:A] The settlers were, for the most part, poor gentlemen,
serving-men, libertines; and with such materials the wonder is, not that
the settlement was retarded by many disasters, but that it was effected
at all. Lord Bacon says: "It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take
the scum of people, wicked, condemned men, with whom you plant; and not
only so, but it spoileth the plantation, for they will ever live like
rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief; spend
victuals and be quickly weary."[92:B] Immediately upon Smith's
departure the Indians renewed their attacks. Percy, the Earl of
Northumberland's brother, for a time administered the government; bu