The gentlemen roamed here or there, seeking the
yellow metal which had much the same as caused a madness among
them; and, save in the case of Master Hunt and Captain Smith, none
planted even the smallest garden.
SURPRISED BY SAVAGES
The fort, as it was called, had been built only of the branches of
trees, and might easily have been overrun by savages bent on doing
us harm.
It was while Master Wingfield, with thirty of the gentlemen,
was gone to visit Powhatan's village, and the others were hunting
for gold, leaving only my master and the preacher to look after
the serving men and the laborers, that upward of an hundred naked
savages suddenly came down upon us, counting to make an end of all
who were in the town.
It was a most fearsome sight to see the brown men, their bodies
painted with many colors, carrying bows and arrows, dash out from
among the trees bent on taking our lives, and for what seemed a
very long while our people ran here and there like ants whose nest
has been broken in upon.
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