The adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of two hundred and fifty horse, and sometime President of Virginia . g them that steal their labour, then blame notMan. Little honey hath that hive where there are more Drones thanBees, and miserable is that land where more are idle than well em-ployed.—Johx Smith. 1608. When the exploring party returned to James Townin September they found the harvest gathered in,thanks to the diligence of Master Scrivener, whomSmith had left in charge. The foolish PresidentEatcliffe had been deposed; but, owing to his waste-fulness and want of forethought in the
The adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of two hundred and fifty horse, and sometime President of Virginia . g them that steal their labour, then blame notMan. Little honey hath that hive where there are more Drones thanBees, and miserable is that land where more are idle than well em-ployed.—Johx Smith. 1608. When the exploring party returned to James Townin September they found the harvest gathered in,thanks to the diligence of Master Scrivener, whomSmith had left in charge. The foolish PresidentEatcliffe had been deposed; but, owing to his waste-fulness and want of forethought in the earlier part ofthe year, the supply of corn was not nearly enoughto last the winter through. Smith was now chosenPresident, and he hoped to supply this shortage bytrading with the savages, whom he and Scrivener hadgot into excellent order. He was also determinedthat every man should work, and started by settingthe example himself. The church was repaired, newstorehouses built, and the fort strengthened. Ithad never been properly built before, and was nowreduced to a regulation form, probably like one of the. ?&» = >. * i6oS.] CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH 19/ accompanying illustrations. Every Sunday the wholecompany was drilled on the plain by the west bulwark,which was called, after the captain, Smithfield. ]There sometimes more than a hundred savageswould stand watching the Europeans exercise andshoot at a mark. In the month of October, CaptainNewport arrived again with his ship and a secondsupply of stores and emigrants. The new Presidenthad hoped they would be husbandmen, carpenters,builders, and blacksmiths, such men as he had coun-selled Newport to bring; but to his dismay he foundthat they were soap-boilers and glass-makers, besidesuseless gentlemen. What folly ! exclaimed he. We want men totill the ground and build houses and barns. Soapand glass we can buy already made from Holland. Newport explained that the Company in Londonwere very vexed at having no return for their gr
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