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 [Pg xv] 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