. The general historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles; together with the true travels, adventures and observations, and a sea grammar. when we hadbut onely learned how to begin, and found the right coursehow to proceed. By Richard Wyffin, William Phittiplace, JeffreyAbbot, and Anas Todkill. [Chap. l608. THE HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA Chap. the Salvages became subject to the English. Hen the Ships departed, all the provisionof the Store (but that the President hadgotten) was so rotten with the lastSummers rayne, and eaten with Ratsand Wormes, as the Hogges wouldscarcel
. The general historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles; together with the true travels, adventures and observations, and a sea grammar. when we hadbut onely learned how to begin, and found the right coursehow to proceed. By Richard Wyffin, William Phittiplace, JeffreyAbbot, and Anas Todkill. [Chap. l608. THE HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA Chap. the Salvages became subject to the English. Hen the Ships departed, all the provisionof the Store (but that the President hadgotten) was so rotten with the lastSummers rayne, and eaten with Ratsand Wormes, as the Hogges wouldscarcely eate it. Yet it was the Souldiersdyet till our returnes, so that we foundnothing done, but our victuals spent, and the most partof our tooles, and a good part of our Armes conveyedto the Salvages. But now casting up the Store, andfinding sufficient till the next harvest, the feare of starvingwas abandoned, and the company divided into tens,fifteens, or as the businesse required; six houres eachday was spent in worke, the rest in Pastime and merryexercises, but the untowardnesse of the greatest numbercaused the President advise as to theCompany. The Presi- Countrymen, the long experience of our late miseries,dents advke \ hope is sufficient to perswade every one to a presentcorrection of himselfe, and thinke not that either my pains,nor the Adventurers purses, will ever maintaine you inidlenesse and sloath. I speake not this to you all, fordivers of you I know deserve both honour and reward,better then is yet here to be had: but the greater partmust be more industrious, or starve, how ever you havebeene heretofore tollerated by the authoritie of theCouncell, from that I have often commanded you. Yousee now that power resteth wholly in my selfe: you mustobey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shallnot eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled:) for thelabours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious menshall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and
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