THE PEOPLE LAND FROM THE SHIPS
Then it was that all the people went on shore, some to set up the
tents of cloth which we had brought with us to serve as shelters
before houses could be built; others to lay out a fort, which it was
needed should be made as early as possible because of the savages,
and yet a certain other number being told off to stand guard
against the brown men, who had already shown that they could be
most dangerous enemies.
My master went ashore, as a matter of course, with the others, I
sticking close to his side; but neither of us taking any part in
the work which had been begun, because the charges of wickedness
were still hanging over his head.
Had Captain Smith been allowed a voice in the Council, certain it
is he never would have chosen this place in which to make the town,
for he pointed out to me that the land lay so low that when the
river was at its height the dampness must be great, and, therefore,
exceeding unhealthful, while there was back of it such an extent
of forest, as made it most difficult to defend, in case the savages
came against us.
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