The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . ke anexcellent sailing chart of the Virginiacoast, the Chesapeake Bay, and its tributaries. On one of his trips he ^^^ ^^^ ^^^™-was captured by Indians and sentenced to be killed, but his lifewas saved by the intercession of Pocahontas, the daughter of 1 In England the terms gentlemen and gentry apply to men who aredescended from titled families but are themselves without any title of former years it was considered disgraceful for a gentleman to engage in theordinary occupations of life. Those who did not care to
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . ke anexcellent sailing chart of the Virginiacoast, the Chesapeake Bay, and its tributaries. On one of his trips he ^^^ ^^^ ^^^™-was captured by Indians and sentenced to be killed, but his lifewas saved by the intercession of Pocahontas, the daughter of 1 In England the terms gentlemen and gentry apply to men who aredescended from titled families but are themselves without any title of former years it was considered disgraceful for a gentleman to engage in theordinary occupations of life. Those who did not care to become clergymen orsoldiers often became adventurers. 2 This portrait is copied from one in John Smiths General! Ilistorie of Vir-ginia, jiublished in 1624. Accompanying it are the following lines: — These are the Lines that shew thy Face; but those That Shew thy Grace and (xlory, brighter bee; Thy Faire-Discoueries and Fowle-Overthrowes Of Salvages, much civillizd by thee Best shew thy Spirit; and to it Glory Wyn So, thou art Brasse without, but Golde 30 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION Chief Powhatan.^ Had it not been for the leadership of Smith,the colony would have perished. In 1609 Smith was injured by the explosion of some gun-powder and was obliged to return to England. After that mat-ters went from bad to worse. Of the number whoe aware s j^^^^ come to the colony, nearly seven hundred in all,only sixty were alive by the summer of IGIO ; theothers had perished from fever and starvation, or had been killedby the Indians. The survivors, ill in mind and body, determinedto abandon the settlement. They took ship, and were on theirway down the Chesapeake Bay when they met Lord Delawarewith three vessels laden with men and provisions. The starvingtime, as it was called, was at an end. The Beginning of Prosperity. — Lord Delaware had come out asgovernor of the colony, and his arrival marked the real beginningof the history of Virginia. Under the leadership of Lo
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