a total disregard of all political liberty, and a total ignorance of
the real advantages which a parent state may derive from its colonies;
which vest the higher powers of legislation in persons residing out of
the country, not chosen by the people, nor affected by the laws they
make, and yet leave commerce unrestrained; the patentees proceeded to
execute the arduous and almost untried task of peopling a strange,
distant, and uncultivated land, covered with woods and marshes, and
inhabited only by savages easily irritated, and when irritated, more
fierce than the beasts they hunted.




CHAPTER II.

Voyage of Newport.... Settlement at Jamestown.... Distress
of colonists.... Smith.... He is captured by the Indians....
Condemned to death, saved by Pocahontas.... Returns to
Jamestown.... Newport arrives with fresh settlers.... Smith
explores the Chesapeake.... Is chosen president.... New
charter.... Third voyage of Newport.... Smith sails for
Europe.... Condition of the colony.... Colonists determine
to abandon the country.... Are stopped by Lord Delaware....
Sir Thomas Dale.... New charter.... Capt. Argal seizes
Pocahontas.... She marries Mr. Rolf.... Separate property in
lands and labour.... Expedition against Port Royal....
Against Manhadoes.... Fifty acres of land for each
settler.... Tobacco.... Sir Thomas Dale.... Mr. Yeardley....
First assembly.... First arrival of females.... Of
convicts.... Of African slaves.... Two councils