. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . et on fire, and thepowder, exploding, tore the flesh from his body andthighs for the space of nine or ten inches square, evendown to the bones. In his agony, and being thus horribly aroused fromsleep, hardly knowing what he did, he plunged over-board as the quickest way to soothe the pain. Therehe was like to have drowned but for Samuel White,who came near to losing his own life in saving him. THE ACCIDENT 55 He was brought back to the town on the day beforethe ships of the fleet, which had brought so manyquarrelsome people, were to sai
. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . et on fire, and thepowder, exploding, tore the flesh from his body andthighs for the space of nine or ten inches square, evendown to the bones. In his agony, and being thus horribly aroused fromsleep, hardly knowing what he did, he plunged over-board as the quickest way to soothe the pain. Therehe was like to have drowned but for Samuel White,who came near to losing his own life in saving him. THE ACCIDENT 55 He was brought back to the town on the day beforethe ships of the fleet, which had brought so manyquarrelsome people, were to sail for England. With nosurgeon to dress his wounds, what could he do butdepart in one of these ships with the poor hope of livingin agony until he arrived on the other side of the ocean. Nathaniel and I would have gone with him, willing,because of his friendship for us, to have served him solong as we lived. He refused to listen to our prayers,insisting that we were lads well fitted to live in a newland like Virginia, and that if we would but remain with. Master Hunt, working out our time of apprenticeship,which would be but five years longer, then might we 156 RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN find ourselves men of importance in the colony. Hedoubted not, so he said, but that we would continue,after he had gone, as we had while he was with us. What could we lads do other than obey, when hiscommands were laid upon us, even though our heartswere so sore that it seemed as if it would no longer bepossible to live when he had departed? Even amid his suffering, when one might well havebelieved that he could give no heed to anything savehis own plight, he spoke to us of what we should do forthe bettering of our own condition. He promised thatas soon as he was come to London, and able to walkaround, if so be God permitted him to live, he wouldseek out Nathaniels parents to tell them that the ladwho had run away from his home was rapidly makinga man of himself in Virginia, and would one day comeback
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