This served us as a living place for many days, or until my master
was come into his own, as he did before the fort was finished,
when, on one certain morning, he demanded of the other members of
the Council that they put him on trial to learn whether the charges
could be proven or not, and this was done on the day before Captain
Newport was to take the ships back to England.

There is little need for me to say that Captain Kendall's stories
of the plot, in which he said my master was concerned, came to naught.
There were none to prove that he had ever spoken of such a matter,
and the result of the trial was that they gave him his rightful
place at the head of the company. Before many months were passed,
all came to know that but for him the white people in Jamestown
would have come to their deaths.



WE WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND


It was on the fifteenth day of June when the ships sailed out of
the Chesapeake Bay, leaving on the banks of the river we called
the James, a hundred men and boys, all told, to hold their lives
and their liberty against thousands upon thousands of naked savages,
who had already shown that they desired to be enemies rather than
friends. Even in the eyes of a boy, it was an odd company to battle
with the savages and the wilderness, for the greater number were
those who called themselves gentlemen, and who believed it beneath
their station to do any labor whatsoever, therefore did it seem to
me that this new town would be burdened sorely with so many drones.