Neither was it required that these new comers should study long in
order to decide upon the course to be pursued, for the answer to
all their speculations could be found in the empty storehouse, and
in the numberless graves 'twixt there and the river bank.
Of provisions, they had so much as might serve for a voyage
to England, if peradventure the winds were favorable; and ere the
ships had been at anchor four and twenty hours, it was resolved
that we should abandon this town of James, which we had hoped might
one day grow into a city fair to look upon.
An attempt to build up a nation in this new land of Virginia, of
which ours was the third, had cost of money and of blood more than
man could well set down, and now, after all this brave effort on
the part of such men as Captain Smith, Master Hunt and Master Percy,
it was to go for naught.
Once more were the savages to hold undisputed possession of the
land which they claimed as their own.
ABANDONING JAMESTOWN
Now even though Nathaniel Peacock and I had known more of suffering
and of sorrow, than of pleasure, in Jamestown, our hearts were sore
at leaving it.
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