. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . riedpainfully because of emptiness. While my master was talking with the king, Pow-hatan, on matters concerning affairs at Jamestown, Isaw an Indian girl, whose name I afterward came toknow was Pocahontas, making bread, and observed hercarefully. She had white meal, but whether ofbarley, or the wheat called Indian corn, or Guinnywheat I could not say, and this she mixed into a paste AN UNEQUAL DIVISION OF LABOR 59 with hot water, making it of such thickness that itcould easily be rolled into little balls or cakes. After the mixture had
. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . riedpainfully because of emptiness. While my master was talking with the king, Pow-hatan, on matters concerning affairs at Jamestown, Isaw an Indian girl, whose name I afterward came toknow was Pocahontas, making bread, and observed hercarefully. She had white meal, but whether ofbarley, or the wheat called Indian corn, or Guinnywheat I could not say, and this she mixed into a paste AN UNEQUAL DIVISION OF LABOR 59 with hot water, making it of such thickness that itcould easily be rolled into little balls or cakes. After the mixture had been thus shaped, she droppedthe balls into a pot of boil-ing water, letting them staythere until well soaked,when she laid them on asmooth stone in front ofthe fire until they had hard-ened and browned likeunto bread that has been cooked in the oven. But I have set myselfto the task of telling howwe of Jamestown lived dur-ing that time when my master was much the same asthe head of the government, and it is not well to beginthe story with AN UNEQUAL DIVISION OF LABOR First I must explain upon what terms these people,the greater number of whom called themselves gentle-men, and therefore claimed to be ashamed to labor withtheir hands, had come together under control of thosemerchants in London, who were known as the LondonCompany. 60 RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN No person in the town of James was allowed to ownany land except as he had his share of the whole. Everyone was expected to work for the good of the village,and whatsoever of crops was raised, belonged to allthe people. It was not permitted that the more in-dustrious should plant the land and claim that whichgrew under their toil. Ours was supposed to be one big family, with eachlaboring to help the others at the same time he helped himself, and the result was that those who worked onlv j a single hour each day, had as much of the generalstores as he who remained in the field from morninguntil night. Although my m
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