Master Hunt, the preacher, could in good truth call himself a
gentleman, and yet I myself saw him, within two hours after we were
landed, nailing a piece of timber between two trees that he might
stretch a square of sailcloth over it, thus making what served
as the first church in the country of Virginia. Yet Captain Smith
has said again and again, that the discourses of Master Hunt under
that poor shelter of cloth, were, to his mind, more like the real
praising of God, than any he had ever heard in the costly buildings
of the old world.

For the better understanding of certain things which happened to
us after we had begun to build the village of Jamestown, it should
be remembered that of all the savages in the country roundabout,
the most friendly were those who lived in the same settlement with
Powhatan, who was, so Captain Smith said, the true head and king
of all the Indians in Virginia.



BAKING BREAD WITHOUT OVENS


It was in this town of Powhatan's that I discovered how to bake
bread without an oven or other fire than what might be built on
the open ground, and it was well I had my eyes open at that time,
otherwise Captain Smith and I had gone supperless to bed again and
again, for there were many days when our stomachs cried painfully
because of emptiness.