jealousy, suspicion, and hatred are villainy--seems rarely to have been
present. Even one who was judged a villain and shot for his villainy seems
hardly to have deserved such fate. Jamestown peninsula turned out to be
feverous; fantastic hopes were matched by strange fears; there were
homesickness, incompatibilities, unfamiliar food and water and air, class
differences in small space, some petty tyrannies, and very certain dangers.
The worst summer heat was not yet, and the fort was building. Trees must be
felled, cabins raised, a field cleared for planting, fishing and hunting
carried on. And some lading, some first fruits, must go back in the ships.
No gold or rubies being as yet found, they would send instead cedar and
sassafras--hard work enough, there at Jamestown, in the Virginian
low-country, with May warm as northern midsummer, and all the air charged
with vapor from the heated river, with exhalations from the rank forest,
from the many marshes.

"The first night of our landing, about midnight," says George Percy in his
"Discourse", "there came some Savages sayling close to our quarter;
presently there was an alarm given; upon that the savages ran away . . . .
Not long after there came two Savages that seemed to be Commanders, bravely
dressed, with Crownes of coloured haire upon their heads, which came as
Messengers from the Werowance of Paspihe, telling us that their Werowance
was comming and would be merry with us with a fat Deere. The eighteenth day
the Werowance of Paspihe came himselfe to our quarter, with one hundred
Savages armed which guarded him in very warlike manner with Bowes and
Arrowes." Some misunderstanding arose. "The Werowance, [seeing] us take to
our armes, went suddenly away with all his company in great anger." The
nineteenth day Percy with several others going into the woods back of the
peninsula met with a narrow path traced through the forest. Pursuing it,
they came to an Indian village. "We Stayed there a while and had of them
strawberries and other thinges . .. . One of the Savages brought us on the