While the white men stood dismayed, awaiting some order from those
who chose to call themselves leaders, the savages shot a multitude
of arrows into the midst of the company, wounding Captain Gabriel
Archer in both his hands, and dangerously hurting one of the seamen.

Captain Gosnold gave command for the firearms to be discharged,
whereupon the savages disappeared suddenly, and without delay our
people returned to the fleet.



READING THE LONDON COMPANY'S ORDERS


An hour later, when those who had just come from the shore had
been refreshed with food, I noted with much of anxiety that all
the gentlemen of the company, not only such as belonged on board
the Susan Constant, but those from the Speedwell, gathered in the
great cabin of our ship, and, looking out ever so cautiously, while
the door of Captain Smith's room was ajar, I saw them gather around
the big table on which, as if it were something of greatest value,
was placed a box made of some dark colored wood.

It was Master Hunt who opened this, and, taking out a paper, he
read in a voice so loud that even my master, as he lay in his narrow
bed, could hear the names of those who were chosen by the London
Company to form the Council for the government of the new land of
Virginia.

These are the names as he read them: Bartholomew Gosnold, Edward