. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . n houses were built by the first supply, but fell into ruin ina year or two, and the colonists condition was shortly worse than before,as clothing and equipments sent out by the second supply were lost intransit. They endured the Starving Times, falling into cannibalism,until Lord Delaware, arriving in 1610, slightly improved their lot. Many of the early emigrants were evidently unfitted for the enter-prise,—they are described as playing bowls in the streets of Jamestownwhile their houses were crumbling to pieces. Unruly gallan
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . n houses were built by the first supply, but fell into ruin ina year or two, and the colonists condition was shortly worse than before,as clothing and equipments sent out by the second supply were lost intransit. They endured the Starving Times, falling into cannibalism,until Lord Delaware, arriving in 1610, slightly improved their lot. Many of the early emigrants were evidently unfitted for the enter-prise,—they are described as playing bowls in the streets of Jamestownwhile their houses were crumbling to pieces. Unruly gallants packedhither to escape ill destinies is their description by the mostpicturesquely heroic of all the Smiths, Captain John Smith, who savedthe colony of Virginia from destruction by the Indians. The success attending tobacco planting greatly assisted theVirginian colonies towards prosperity. THE MAYFLOWER (1620)—NEW ENGLAND The arrival of the Mayflower in 1620 was a turning-point in thestory of the English colonisation of America, bringing into the service. AMERICAN COLONIAT^CHAPTER I 257 of the New English settlements such men as Winslow, Elder Brewster,Bradford, Governor Winthrop, Miles Standish and his friend John Alden,of Why dont you speak for yourself, John ? celebrity. One speculates on the very different course which British i)olitics,home and colonial, might have taken, had OliverCromwell carried out his intention of becoming asettler. That he would speedily have taken rankamong the leaders can scarcely be doubted; but hiscareer, if less momentous, might have been equallystormy, for the early settlers in New England werenot, as one is prone to suppose, all Puritans, ^F^ROM^AroLD^EN- Schismatics, and Nonconformists ; many of the four who had arrived by 1634, came as much to secure freedomfrom taxation as to obtain liberty for religious opinions ; many alsowere wealthy and of good birth. They included numbers of universitymen, who represented learn
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