to pieces and so borne around those Falls of the Far West, then put
together, and the voyage to the Pacific resumed. Moreover, he had for
Powhatan, whom the minds at home figured as a sort of Asiatic Despot, a
gilt crown and a fine ewer and basin, a bedstead, and a gorgeous robe.

The easiest task, that of delivering Powhatan's present and placing an idle
crown upon that Indian's head who, among his own people, was already
sufficiently supreme, might be and was performed. And Newport with a large
party went again to the Falls of the Far West and miles deep into the
country beyond. Here they found Indians outside the Powhatan Confederacy,
but no South Sea, nor mines of gold and silver, nor any news of the lost
colony of Roanoke. In December Newport left Virginia in the Mary and
Margaret, and with him sailed Ratcliffe. Smith succeeded to the presidency.

About this time John Laydon, a laborer, and Anne Burras, that maid of
Mistress Forest's, fell in love and would marry. So came about the first
English wedding in Virginia.

Winter followed with snow and ice, nigh two hundred people to feed, and not
overmuch in the larder with which to do it. Smith with George Percy and
Francis West and others went again to the Indians for corn. Christmas found
them weather-bound at Kecoughtan. "Wherever an Englishman may be, and in
whatever part of the world, he must keep Christmas with feasting and
merriment! And, indeed, we were never more merrie, nor fedde on more
plentie of good oysters, fish, flesh, wild fowle and good bread; nor never
had better fires in England than in the drie, smokie houses of Kecoughtan!"

But despite this Christmas fare, there soon began quarrels, many and
intricate, with Powhatan and his brother Opechancanough.