converted, married to a planter named John Rolfe, and taken to England,
where, among the artificialities of court life, she soon sickened and
died.

On the very day that Smith reached Jamestown with his Indian escort, the
supply ship sent out by Captain Newport also arrived, bringing 120 new
colonists. Of the original 105, only thirty-eight were left alive. But
Smith's enemies were yet in the ascendancy, and he spent the summer of
1608 in exploration, leaving the colony to its own devices. When he
returned to it in September, he found it reduced and disheartened. His
brave and cheery presence acted as a tonic, and at last the colonists,
appreciating him at his true value, elected him president. He put new
life into everyone, and when, soon afterwards, Newport arrived again
from England with fresh supplies, he found the colony in fairly good
shape.

But the members of the Virginia Company were growing impatient at the
failure of the venture to bring any returns, and they sent out
instructions by Newport demanding that either a lump of gold be sent
back to England or that the way to the South Sea be discovered. Smith
said plainly that the instructions were ridiculous, and wrote an answer
to them in blunt soldier English. Then, turning his hand in earnest to
the government of the disorderly rabble under him, he instituted an iron
discipline, whipped the laggards into line, and by the end of April had
some twenty houses built, thirty or forty acres of ground broken up and
planted, nets and weirs arranged for fishing, a new fortress under way,
and various small manufactures begun. A great handicap was the system,
by which all property was held in common, so that the drones shared
equally with the workers, but Smith took care that there should be few
drones. There can be no doubt that his sheer will power kept the colony