one of our Councell, he was honourably buried having all the Ordnance in
the Fort shot off, with many vollies of small shot ....

"The foure and twentieth day died Edward Harrington and George Walker and
were buried the same day. The six and twentieth day died Kenelme
Throgmortine. The seven and twentieth day died William Roods. The eight and
twentieth day died Thomas Stoodie, Cape Merchant. The fourth day of
September died Thomas Jacob,Sergeant. The fifth day there died Benjamin
Beast . . . ."*

* Percy's "Discourse."


Extreme misery makes men blind, unjust, and weak of judgment. Here was
gross wretchedness, and the colonists proceeded to blame A and B and C,
lost all together in the wilderness. It was this councilor or that
councilor, this ambitious one or that one, this or that almost certainly
ascertained traitor! Wanting to steal the pinnace, the one craft left by
Newport, wanting to steal away in the pinnace and leave the mass--small
enough mass now!--without boat or raft or straw to cling to, made the
favorite accusation. Upon this count, early in September, Wingfield was
deposed from the presidency. Ratcliffe succeeded him, but presently
Ratcliffe fared no better. One councilor fared worse, for George Kendall,
accused of plotting mutiny and pinnace stealing, was given trial, found
guilty, and shot.

"The eighteenth day [of September] died one Ellis Kinistone . . .. The same
day at night died one Richard Simmons. The nineteenth day there died one
Thomas Mouton . . . ."