Nor was this the entire sum of the wrong done by our gentlemen who
stole rather than worked with their hands. The savages, grown bold
now that they had firearms and knew how to use them, no longer had
the same fear of white people as when Captain Smith, single handed,
was able to hold two hundred in check, and strove to kill us of
Jamestown whenever they found opportunity.
On four different times did they plot to murder my master, believing
that when he had been done to death, it would be more easy for them
to kill off all in our town; but on each occasion, so keen was his
watchfulness, he outwitted them all.
The putting of a crown on Powhatan's head, and bowing before him
as if he had been a real king, also did much mischief. It caused
that brown savage to believe we feared him, which was much the same
as inviting him to be less of a friend, until on a certain day he
boldly declared that one basket of his corn was worth more than
all our copper and beads, because he could eat his corn, while our
trinkets gave a hungry man no satisfaction.
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