. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . did we lie in that narrow bed, believing deathwas very near at hand. There is no reason why I should make any attemptat describing the sickness which was upon us, for Ihave since heard that it comes to all who go out on thesea for the first time. When we recovered, it wassuddenly, like as a flower lifts up its head after a refresh-ing shower that has pelted it to the ground. THE FIRST ISLAND 29 I would I might set down here all which came to usduring the voyage, for it was filled with wondroushappenings; but because I would tell of what
. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . did we lie in that narrow bed, believing deathwas very near at hand. There is no reason why I should make any attemptat describing the sickness which was upon us, for Ihave since heard that it comes to all who go out on thesea for the first time. When we recovered, it wassuddenly, like as a flower lifts up its head after a refresh-ing shower that has pelted it to the ground. THE FIRST ISLAND 29 I would I might set down here all which came to usduring the voyage, for it was filled with wondroushappenings; but because I would tell of what we didin the land of Virginia, I must be sparing of wordsnow. THE FIRST ISLAND It is to be remembered that our fleet left London on thetwentieth day of December, and, as I have since heardCaptain Smith read from the pages which he wroteconcerning the voyage, it was on the twenty-third ofMarch that we were come to the island of Martinique,where for the first time Nathaniel Peacock and I sawliving savages. When we were come to anchor, they paddled out to. 30 RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN our ships in frail boats called canoes, bringing manykinds of most delicious fruits, which we bought forsuch trumpery things as glass beads and ornaments ofcopper. It was while we lay off this island that we saw awhale attacked and killed by a thresher and a sword-fish, which was a wondrous sight. CAPTAIN SMITH ACCUSED And now was a most wicked deed done by thosewho claimed to be in command of our company, forthey declared that my master had laid a plot with someof the men in each vessel of the fleet, whereby theprincipal members of the company were to be mur-dered, to the end that Captain Smith might set himselfup as king after we were come to the new world. All this was untrue, as I knew full well, having aidedhim in such work as a real clerk would have done, andhad there been a plot, I must have found some inklingof it in one of the many papers I read aloud to him,or copied down on other sheets that t
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