After this had been done, Captain Newport sailed up the James River
in search of the passage to the South Sea, and my master set about
putting Jamestown into proper order.
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Once more Captain Smith made the rule that those who would not work
should not eat, and this time, with all the Council at his back,
together with such men as Captain Newport had just brought with
him, you can well fancy his orders were obeyed.
In addition to the stocks which had been built, he had a pillory
set up, and those gentlemen who were not inclined to labor with
their hands as well as they might, were forced to stand in it to
their discomfort.
The next thing which he did was to have a large, deep well dug,
so that we might have sweet water from it for drinking purposes,
rather than be forced to use that from the river, for it was to his
mind that through this muddy water did the sickness come to us.
When the winter was well begun, and Captain Newport ceased to search
for the South Sea passage, because of having come to the falls of
the James River, Captain Smith forced our people to build twenty
stout houses such as would serve to withstand an attack from the
savages, and again was the palisade stretched from one to the other,
until the village stood in the form of a square.
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