. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . he conspiratorwho was to execute theplot felt his heart failhim, and he could not next thought thatby gaining possession ofthe government theycould escape punishment,and tried to do so. Fev-ered and tormented byhis wounds, Capt. Smithlost patience in this con-tinual struggle with the ^«ingratitude of men whom X\he would have benefited, Xand determined to go to ~-^England; although his ^iifriends wished to avengehis injuries by the death of the conspirators, he would notplunge the colony into civil war to preserve his own wound
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . he conspiratorwho was to execute theplot felt his heart failhim, and he could not next thought thatby gaining possession ofthe government theycould escape punishment,and tried to do so. Fev-ered and tormented byhis wounds, Capt. Smithlost patience in this con-tinual struggle with the ^«ingratitude of men whom X\he would have benefited, Xand determined to go to ~-^England; although his ^iifriends wished to avengehis injuries by the death of the conspirators, he would notplunge the colony into civil war to preserve his own wounds, too, grew very dangerous, for lack of such surgicalaid as could be obtained only in the old country; and he des-paired of recovering, if he remained in Virginia. In the earlypart of the autumn of 1609, then, he left Jamestown, never to re-turn to it again. Hero, for five years, the record is a blank. We know that hewas coldly received in England; but that is nothing new; thecompany had been for a long time displeased at his conduct, both. POCAHONTAS. 104 CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. in treating the Indians as he did, and in so stubbornly refusingto find a gold mine. He j)robably retired to his estate after thecure of his wounds, remaining there in the quiet life which hehad once sought in his youth. But he was not destined to endhis days in the obscurity of an English country house. In 1614 an expedition of two ships was fitted out by four Lon-don merchants and himself, for the purposes of trade and explor-ation in North Yirginia, as New England was then called. Theidea of settlement on these inhospitable shores had been aban-doned by the English for the present, but the fisheries and thefur-trade were not relinquished, vessels being sent thither annu-ally. The enterprise was in the highest degree successful. Sevenmonths ( according to one authority six ) sufficed for the wholevoyage; the sailors did not suffer from sickness ; and the freightswere profitable. While the sailors were
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