. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . the buildings surrounded by a palisade in which shouldbe many gates. Thus, when all was finished, he would have a fort-like village, wherein the people could rest without fearof what the savages might be able to do. 92 RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN By the time such work was well under way, and ourgentlemen laboring as honest men should, after learn-ing that it was necessary so to do unless they werewilling to go hungry, Captain Smith set about addingto our store of food, for it was not to be supposed thatwe could depend for any length of time up
. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . the buildings surrounded by a palisade in which shouldbe many gates. Thus, when all was finished, he would have a fort-like village, wherein the people could rest without fearof what the savages might be able to do. 92 RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN By the time such work was well under way, and ourgentlemen laboring as honest men should, after learn-ing that it was necessary so to do unless they werewilling to go hungry, Captain Smith set about addingto our store of food, for it was not to be supposed thatwe could depend for any length of time upon what theIndians might give us, and the winter would be TRAPPING TURKEYS The wild turkeyshad appeared in theforest in great num-bers, but few hadbeen killed by ourpeople because of thesavages, many ofwhom were not to betrusted, even though the chiefs of three tribes pro-fessed to be friendly. It was this fact which had pre-vented us from doing much in the way of hunting. Now that we were in such stress for food, and sinceall had turned laborers, whether willingly or no, muchin the way of provisions was needed. Captain Smithset about taking the turkeys as he did about most othermatters, which is to say, that it was done in a thoroughmanner. TRAPPING TURKEYS 93 Instead of being forced to spend at least one chargeof powder for each fowl killed, he proposed that wetrap them, and showed how it might be done, accordingto his belief. Four men were told off to do the work, and they werekept busy cutting saplings and trimming them downuntil there was nothing left save poles from fifteen totwenty feet long. Then, with these poles laid oneabove the o
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