. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . BUILDING A FORTIFIED VILLAGE There is little need for me to say that these were notthe only reforms which my master brought about, after BUILDING A FORTIFIED VILLAGE 91 having waited long enough for our lazy gentlemen tounderstand that unless they set their hands to laborthey could not eat from the general store. He straightway set these idle ones to work buildinghouses, declaring that if the sickness which had comeamong us was to be checked, our people must nolonger sleep upon the ground, or in caves where themoisture gathered all arou
. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . BUILDING A FORTIFIED VILLAGE There is little need for me to say that these were notthe only reforms which my master brought about, after BUILDING A FORTIFIED VILLAGE 91 having waited long enough for our lazy gentlemen tounderstand that unless they set their hands to laborthey could not eat from the general store. He straightway set these idle ones to work buildinghouses, declaring that if the sickness which had comeamong us was to be checked, our people must nolonger sleep upon the ground, or in caves where themoisture gathered all around them. He marked out places whereon log dwellings shouldbe placed, in such manner that when the houses hadbeen set up, they would form a square, and, as I heardhim tell Master Hunt, it was his intention to have all. 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 long.
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