CHAPTER IV.

THE STARVING TIME.

How puns were made on Captain Newport's name 119

Great importance of the Indian alliance 120

Gentlemen as pioneers 121

All is not gold that glitters 122

Smith's attempts to make glass and soap 123

The Company is disappointed at not making more money 124

Tale-bearers and their complaints against Smith 124

Smith's "Rude Answer" to the Company 125

Says he cannot prevent quarrels 125

And the Company's instructions have not been wise 126

From infant industries too much must not be expected while the colonists are suffering for want of food 127

And while peculation and intrigue are rife and we are in sore need of useful workmen 128

Smith anticipates trouble from the Indians, whose character is well described by Hakluyt 129

What Smith dreaded 130

How the red men's views of the situation were changed 131

Smith's voyage to Werowocomoco 132

His parley with The Powhatan 133

A game of bluff 134

The corn is brought 135

Suspicions of treachery 136

A wily orator 137

Pocahontas reveals the plot 138

Smith's message to The Powhatan 138, 139

How Smith visited the Pamunkey village and brought Opekankano to terms 139, 140

How Smith appeared to the Indians in the light of a worker of miracles 141

What our chronicler calls "a pretty accident" 141

How the first years of Old Virginia were an experiment in communism 142

Smith declares "He that will not work shall not eat," but the summer's work is interrupted by unbidden messmates in the shape of rats 143

Arrival of young Samuel Argall with news from London 143, 144

Second Charter of the London Company, 1609 144

The council in London 145

The local government in Virginia is entirely changed and Thomas, Lord Delaware, is appointed governor for life 146

A new expedition is organized for Virginia, but still with a communistic programme 147, 148

How the good ship Sea Venture was wrecked upon the Bermudas 149

How this incident was used by Shakespeare in The Tempest 150

Gates and Somers build pinnaces and sail for Jamestown, May, 1610 151

The Third Supply had arrived in August, 1609 151

And Smith had returned to England in October 152

Lord Delaware became alarmed and sailed for Virginia 152

Meanwhile the sufferings of the colony had been horrible 153

Of the 500 persons Gates and Somers found only 60 survivors, and it was decided that Virginia must be abandoned 154

Dismantling of Jamestown and departure of the colony 154, 155

But the timely arrival of Lord Delaware in Hampton Roads prevented the dire disaster 155