Our first century . - rudest appliances. Later in the year—in September—came the sora in such multitudes, and so helpless from their excessive fat-ness that theymight be knockeddown with sticks orpaddles. Yet inthe midst of suchabundance thisstrans^elv unfit col-ony, crippled bytheir inexperiencein colonizing andby their ignoranceof the land theyhad been sent outto settle, sat downto await the uncer-tain coming offood ships fromLondon, and evenafter two otherplanting seasons had gone by they actually star\ did indeed at one time of severe starvation exilea part of the company to the oy
Our first century . - rudest appliances. Later in the year—in September—came the sora in such multitudes, and so helpless from their excessive fat-ness that theymight be knockeddown with sticks orpaddles. Yet inthe midst of suchabundance thisstrans^elv unfit col-ony, crippled bytheir inexperiencein colonizing andby their ignoranceof the land theyhad been sent outto settle, sat downto await the uncer-tain coming offood ships fromLondon, and evenafter two otherplanting seasons had gone by they actually star\ did indeed at one time of severe starvation exilea part of the company to the oyster banks for suste-nance but at no time do they appear to have made any. Present appearance of Jamestown. A COMPANY OF INXAPABLES 29 systematic and well-ordered efforts to use the food thatlay so abundantly at hand. So long as John Smith remained in control they hadfood. For Smith went among the Indians and boughtcorn. But when at last Smith returned to England,there was nobody in the colony with sense enough andenergy- enough to do this, and the staning time came. The stor}- of that belongs to a later why the colonists did not feed fat from the forestand the stream in a land of such abundance, must alwaysremain a problem of historv. CHAPTER III / JOHN SMITH IT must be borne in mind that the Indians with whomthe Jamestown colonists at first came into relationswere not at all such savages as those encountered bylater colonists in other parts of the country. Indeed they^ere not savages at all in any just sense of the had an orderly life of their own. They were un-der government. They clothed themselves, so far atleast as decency require
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