Captain Smith aided me in building for ourselves a hut in front
of an overhanging rock, with the branches of trees. It was a poor
shelter at the best; but he declared it would serve us until such
time as he was given his rightful place among the people, or had
been sent back a prisoner to England.
CAPTAIN SMITH PROVEN INNOCENT
This served us as a living place for many days, or until my master
was come into his own, as he did before the fort was finished,
when, on one certain morning, he demanded of the other members of
the Council that they put him on trial to learn whether the charges
could be proven or not, and this was done on the day before Captain
Newport was to take the ships back to England.
There is little need for me to say that Captain Kendall's stories
of the plot, in which he said my master was concerned, came to naught.
There were none to prove that he had ever spoken of such a matter,
and the result of the trial was that they gave him his rightful
place at the head of the company.
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