. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . APTAIN SMITHS RETURN . .112 A NEW CHURCH 115 CAPTAIN NEWPORTS RETURN 115 GOLD-SEEKERS 117 A WORTHLESS CARGO 120 THE CONDITION OF THE COLONY 121 TOBACCO , 122 CAPTAIN NEWPORTS RETURN 124 GAZING AT THE WOMEN 125 MASTER HUNT BRINGS GREAT NEWS . . .127CAPTAIN NEWPORTS INSTRUCTIONS . . .129 THE STORY OF ROANOKE 130 THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN . . .132 PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE 134 STEALING THE COMPANYS GOODS 135 WHAT THE THIEVING LED To 137 FEAR OF FAMINE IN A LAND OF PLENTY . .138 THE UNHEALTHFUL LOCATION 14° GATHERING OYSTERS 141 PREPARING STU


. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . APTAIN SMITHS RETURN . .112 A NEW CHURCH 115 CAPTAIN NEWPORTS RETURN 115 GOLD-SEEKERS 117 A WORTHLESS CARGO 120 THE CONDITION OF THE COLONY 121 TOBACCO , 122 CAPTAIN NEWPORTS RETURN 124 GAZING AT THE WOMEN 125 MASTER HUNT BRINGS GREAT NEWS . . .127CAPTAIN NEWPORTS INSTRUCTIONS . . .129 THE STORY OF ROANOKE 130 THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN . . .132 PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE 134 STEALING THE COMPANYS GOODS 135 WHAT THE THIEVING LED To 137 FEAR OF FAMINE IN A LAND OF PLENTY . .138 THE UNHEALTHFUL LOCATION 14° GATHERING OYSTERS 141 PREPARING STURGEON FOR FOOD 142 TURPENTINE AND TAR 143 THE MAKING OF CLAPBOARDS 145 PROVIDING FOR THE CHILDREN 14? DREAMS OF THE FUTURE 148 8 CONTENTS PAGE A PLAGUE OF RATS 149 TREACHERY DURING CAPTAIN SMITHS ABSENCE . 150 CAPTAIN SMITHS SPEECH 151 THE NEW LAWS 153 THE ACCIDENT 154 CAPTAIN SMITHS DEPARTURE 156 THE STARVING TIME 158 OUR COURAGE GIVES OUT 160 ABANDONING JAMESTOWN 161 LORD DE LA WARRS ARRIVAL 162 THE YOUNG PLANTERS 164 RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN. WHO I AM ES, my name is Richard rather queer, doesnt it? Thelads in London town used to vex mesorely by calling, Baa, baa, blacksheep, whenever I passed them, andyet he who will may find the nameRichard Mutton written in the list ofthose who were sent to Virginia, in thenew world, by the London Company, on the nineteenthday of December, in the year of Our Lord, 1606. Whosoever may chance to read what I am here settingdown, will, perhaps, ask how it happened that a ladonly ten years of age was allowed to sail for that newworld in company with such a band of adventurousmen as headed the enterprise. Therefore it is that I must tell a certain portion of the story of my life, for the better understanding of how I came to be in this fair, wrild, savage-beset land of Virginia. Yet I was not the only boy who sailed in the Susan 9 io RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN Constant, as you may see by turning to the list ofnames, which is under the care,


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