While my master was talking with the king, Powhatan, on matters
concerning affairs at Jamestown, I saw an Indian girl, whose name
I afterward came to know was Pocahontas, making bread, and observed
her carefully. She had white meal, but whether of barley, or the
wheat called Indian corn, or Guinny wheat I could not say, and this
she mixed into a paste with hot water; making it of such thickness
that it could easily be rolled into little balls or cakes.

After the mixture had been thus shaped, she dropped the balls into
a pot of boiling water, letting them stay there until well soaked,
when she laid them on a smooth stone in front of the fire until
they had hardened and browned like unto bread that has been cooked
in the oven.

But I have set myself to the task of telling how we of Jamestown
lived during that time when my master was much the same as the
head of the government, and it is not well to begin the story with
bread making.



AN UNEQUAL DIVISION OF LABOR


First I must explain upon what terms these people, the greater
number of whom called themselves gentlemen, and therefore claimed
to be ashamed to labor with their hands, had come together under
control of those merchants in London, who were known as the London
Company.