. Highways and byways of the South. Ti. f^- -??OX AND I TILDcW On the Road Home Round about Old Jamestown 325 Smith found his fellows a very troublesome responsi-bility. Few of them were industrious or were pardoned criminals. But Smith was aleader with ability to rule. He punished idleness withstarvation, and to cure profane swearing he had a dailyaccount kept of a mans oaths ; and at night, as a pen-alty for each oath, he poured a can of cold water downthe offenders sleeve. Captain Smith wrote to the cor-poration in England which had fitted out the colony, When y
. Highways and byways of the South. Ti. f^- -??OX AND I TILDcW On the Road Home Round about Old Jamestown 325 Smith found his fellows a very troublesome responsi-bility. Few of them were industrious or were pardoned criminals. But Smith was aleader with ability to rule. He punished idleness withstarvation, and to cure profane swearing he had a dailyaccount kept of a mans oaths ; and at night, as a pen-alty for each oath, he poured a can of cold water downthe offenders sleeve. Captain Smith wrote to the cor-poration in England which had fitted out the colony, When you send again, I entreat you rather sendthirty carpenters, husbandmen, gardeners, fishermen,blacksmiths, and diggers-up of the roots, well provided,than a thousand of such as we have. With regard to the first buildings they erected. Smithsays : We did hang an awning (which is an old sail)to three or four trees, to shadow us from the sun ; ourwalls were rails of wood ; our seats unhewed trees, tillwe cut planks ; our pulpit a bar of wood nailed to twoneighboring trees. In
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