Then it was that Master Hunt, talking like the true man he ever
showed himself to be, advised Captain Smith to do in all things,
so far as the other members of the Council permitted, as if nothing
had gone awry, claiming that before we had been many days in this
land, those who had brought charges against him would fail of making
them good.

Had I been the one thus so grievously injured, the whole company
might have shipwrecked themselves before I would have raised a
hand, all of which goes to show that I had not learned to rule my
temper.

Captain Smith, however, agreed with all Master Hunt said, and then
it was that I was sent forward once more. My master went on deck
for the first time since we had left Martinique, walking to and
fro swiftly, as if it pleased him to have command of his legs once
more.

If Master Hunt and Master Wingfield had been able to bring the
others around to their way of thinking, Captain Smith would have
taken his rightful place in the Council without delay. Instead of
which, however, he remained on board the ship idle, when there was
much that he could have done better than any other, from the day
on which we came in sight of Virginia, which was the fifteenth day
of April, until the twenty-sixth day of June.

During all this time, those of the Council who were his enemies
claimed that they could prove he had laid plans to murder all the
chief men, and take his place as king; but yet they did not do so,