. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . r which wasbeing done him, but when he did get it through his RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN head, he took off his old moccasins and brought fromthe hut his raccoon-skin coat, with orders that mymaster and Captain Newport send them all to KingJames in London, as a present from the great Powhatanof Virginia. After this had been done, Captain Newport sailed upthe James River in search of the passage to the SouthSea, and my master set about putting Jamestown intoproper order. PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE Once more Captain Smith made the rule that thosew
. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . r which wasbeing done him, but when he did get it through his RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN head, he took off his old moccasins and brought fromthe hut his raccoon-skin coat, with orders that mymaster and Captain Newport send them all to KingJames in London, as a present from the great Powhatanof Virginia. After this had been done, Captain Newport sailed upthe James River in search of the passage to the SouthSea, and my master set about putting Jamestown intoproper order. PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE Once more Captain Smith made the rule that thosewho would not work should not eat, and this time, withall the Council at his back, together with such men asCaptain Newport had just brought with him, you can well fancy his orders wereobeyed. In addition to the stockswhich had been built, he had apillory set up, and those gentle-men who were not inclined tolabor with their hands as wellas they might, were forced tostand in it to their next thing which he did\vas to have a large, deep well. STEALING THE COMPANYS GOODS 135 dug, so that we might have sweet water from it fordrinking purposes, rather than be forced to use thatfrom the river, for it was to his mind that through thismuddy water did the sickness come to us. When the winter was well begun, and Captain New-port ceased to search for the South Sea passage, becauseof having come to the falls of the James River, CaptainSmith forced our people to build twenty stout housessuch as would serve to withstand an attack from thesavages, and again was the palisade stretched from oneto the other, until the village stood in the form of asquare. After the cold season had passed, some of the people were set about shingling the church, and others wereordered to make clapboards that we might have a cargowhen Captain Newport returned. It was the duty ofsome few to keep the streets and lanes of the villageclear of filth, lest we invite the sickness again, andthe remainder of t
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