. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . l and I decided that it should be the mosthomelike, if indeed that could be compassed wherewere no women to keep things cleanly. I am in doubt as to whether Captain Smith, great 64 RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN traveler and brave adventurer though he was, hadeven realized that with only men to perform the house-hold duties, there would be much lack of comfort. The floor of the house was only the bare earth beatendown hard. We lads made brooms, by tying the twigs of trees to a stick, whichwas not what might becalled a good makeshift,and yet with
. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . l and I decided that it should be the mosthomelike, if indeed that could be compassed wherewere no women to keep things cleanly. I am in doubt as to whether Captain Smith, great 64 RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN traveler and brave adventurer though he was, hadeven realized that with only men to perform the house-hold duties, there would be much lack of comfort. The floor of the house was only the bare earth beatendown hard. We lads made brooms, by tying the twigs of trees to a stick, whichwas not what might becalled a good makeshift,and yet with such wekept the inside of ourhome far more cleanlythan were some of thetents. • LACK OF CLEANLINESSLN THE VILLAGE There were manywho believed, becausethere were no womenin our midst, we shouldspare our labor in theway of keeping cleanly, and before we had been inthe new village a week, the floors of many of the dwell-ings were littered with dirt of various kinds, untilthat which should have been a home, looked more likea place in which swine are CAVE HOMES 65 From the very first day we came ashore, good MasterHunt went about urging that great effort be made to keepthe houses, and the paths around them, cleanly, sayingthat unless we did so, there was like to be a plague ofsickness come among us. With some his preaching didgood, but by far the greater number, and these chieflyto be found among the self-called gentlemen, gave noheed. It was as if these lazy ones delighted in filth. Againand again have I seen one or another throw the scrapingsof the trencher bowls just outside the door of the tentor hut, where those who came or went must of a neces-sity tread upon them, and one need not struggle hardto realize what soon was the condition of the village. After a heavy shower many of the paths were coveredankle deep with filth of all kinds, and when the sunshone warm and bright, the stench was too horribleto be described by ordinary words. CAVE HOMES There were other kinds o
Size: 1231px × 2030px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidrichardofjam, bookyear1910
