The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . foodthat Gates brought would barely last them sixteendays. So he put the Jamestown people aboard his littlecedar ships, intending to sail to Newfoundland in hopeof there falling in with some English set sail down the river, leaving not one Englishsettler on the whole continent ofAmerica. But, before Gates and his peo-ple got out of James River, theymet a boat rowing up towardthem. Lord De la Warr,whose name we now writeDelaware, had been sentout from England as gov-ernor of Virginia. Fromsome En
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . foodthat Gates brought would barely last them sixteendays. So he put the Jamestown people aboard his littlecedar ships, intending to sail to Newfoundland in hopeof there falling in with some English set sail down the river, leaving not one Englishsettler on the whole continent ofAmerica. But, before Gates and his peo-ple got out of James River, theymet a boat rowing up towardthem. Lord De la Warr,whose name we now writeDelaware, had been sentout from England as gov-ernor of Virginia. Fromsome Englishmen stationed atthe mouth of the river he hadlearned that Gates and all thepeople were coming down. He immediately sent hislong-boat to turn them back again. On a Sundaymorning De la Warr landed at Jamestown, whichlooked like some ancient ruin, because the wretchedpeople had burned many of the palisades and cabinsfor fire-wood. De la Warrs first act was to kneel uponthe shore awhile in prayer. Then he went to the littlechurch, where he took possession of the government,. THE STARVING TIME. 29 and rebuked the people for the idleness that had broughtthem so much suffering. But Lord De la Warr held to the notion of the De la warrstime, that there must be gold in almost every mountainin America; so he wasted time in trying to penetrateto the mountains for gold, and in building a fort higherup the river, where Richmond now stands, which wasabandoned as soon as finished. A great sickness pre-vailed, and a hundred and fifty of the colonists De la Warr, finding himself very ill, left the col-ony, to the great discouragement of the people. The next year Sir Thomas Dale took charge, and he sir Thomas Daleremained in Virginia for five years, part of the timeas governor-in-chief and part of the time as second incommand under Sir Thomas Gates. Dale was a soldier,and ruled with extreme severity. He forced the idlesettlers to labor, he drove away some of the Indians andsettled
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