After the cold season had passed, some of the people were set about
shingling the church, and others were ordered to make clapboards
that we might have a cargo when Captain Newport returned. It was
the duty of some few to keep the streets and lanes of the village
clear of filth, lest we invite the sickness again, and the remainder
of the company were employed in planting Indian corn, forty acres
of which were seeded down.
STEALING THE COMPANY'S GOODS
If I have made it appear that during all this time we lived in the
most friendly manner with the savages, then have I blundered in
the setting down of that which happened.
Although it shames one to write such things concerning those who
called themselves Englishmen, yet it must be said that the savages
were no longer in any degree friendly, and all because of what our
own people had done.
From the time when Captain Smith had declared that he who would not
work should not eat, some of our fine gentlemen who were willing to
believe that labor was the greatest crime which could be committed,
began stealing from the common store iron and copper goods of every
kind which might be come at, in order to trade with the savages
for food they themselves were too lazy to get otherwise.
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