A first book in American history with European beginnings . traveling through other countries our adventurerarrived in England, just as the fever of American 3oloniza-tion was at its height. He, too, determined to go toAmerica, and sailed with the London Companys settlersin 1607. LIFE IN JAMESTOWN The colonists had been told to put ashore on RoanokeIsland, where Raleighs ill-fated colonists had been. But a storm drove the shipsinto Chesapeake Bay,and the newcomerssailed up a beautifulriver which theynamed after KingJames. It was nowthe middle of place looked in-viting; the shores werec
A first book in American history with European beginnings . traveling through other countries our adventurerarrived in England, just as the fever of American 3oloniza-tion was at its height. He, too, determined to go toAmerica, and sailed with the London Companys settlersin 1607. LIFE IN JAMESTOWN The colonists had been told to put ashore on RoanokeIsland, where Raleighs ill-fated colonists had been. But a storm drove the shipsinto Chesapeake Bay,and the newcomerssailed up a beautifulriver which theynamed after KingJames. It was nowthe middle of place looked in-viting; the shores werecovered with beau-tiful flowers andshrubs, and so thecolonists determinedto settle there, andnamed the settlementJamestown. But it was not aneasy task—this found-ing a colony. The hot Virginia sun and a terrible feverkilled half of the settlers. Many of the Jamestown colonists were men of wealthyfamilies and had never had to work. They thoughtmanual labor a disgrace. But it soon became evident thatsome must work, or all would starve. The warm climate 90. From the original engraving in John Smiths Historie of New England, Virginia, andThe Summer Isles, published in 1624. JOHN SMITH had tended to make them all languid. Many werereally lazy and preferred to search for gold than tillthe soil. John Smith soon showed these idle gentlemen howto hew trees and build huts. In his book he says, Theaxes so oft blistered their tender fingers, that many timesevery third blow had a loud oath to drown the did not like to hear the men swear, so he devised aplan to make them refrain from it. He told them that atnight, for every oath, he would pour a can of cold waterdown the swearers sleeve. At first it was very hard to get enough food. So tokeep the colonists from starving, Smith explored the coun-try, visited different Indian tribes, and bargained withthem for such supplies as they could furnish. These settlers had no idea of the greatness of thiscountry. A map of that time showed
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