Captain Smith, not being allowed to raise his voice in the Council,
could only speak as one whose words have little weight, since he
was not in authority; but he lost no opportunity of telling these
gold seekers that only those who sowed might reap, and unless seed
was put into the ground, there would be no crops to serve as food
during the winter.
Even Master Wingfield, the President of the Council, refused to
listen when my master would have spoken to him as a friend. He gave
more heed to exploring the land, than to what might be our fate
in the future. He would not even allow the gentlemen to make such
a fort as might withstand an assault by the savages, seeming to
think it of more importance to know what was to be found on the
banks of this river or of that, than to guard against those brown
people who daily gave token of being unfriendly.
The serving men and laborers were employed in making clapboards that
we might have a cargo with which to fill one of Captain Newport's
ships when he returned from England, according to the plans of the
London Company.
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