Pioneers of the Old South: a Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings
Pioneers of the Old South: a Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings
Johnston Mary
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One of these children, thedaughter of John Rolfe, gentleman, and his wife, was christened Bermuda. Gates and Somers held kindly sway. The colonists lived in plenty, peace, and ease. But for all that, they were shipwrecked folk, and far, far outof the world, and they longed for the old ways and their own kin. Dayfollowed day, but no sail would show to bear them thence; and so atlast, taking what they could from the forests of the island, and fromthe Sea Adventure, they set about to become shipwr...ights. And there two gallant pynases, Did build of Seader-tree, The brave Deliverance one was call'd, Of seaventy tonne was shee, The other Patience had to name, Her burthen thirty tonne. . . . . . . The two and forty weekes being past They hoyst sayle and away; Their shippes with hogges well freighted were, Their harts with mickle joy. And so to Virginia came. . . What they found when they came to Virginia was dolor enough. OnJamestown strand they beheld sixty skeletons "who had eaten all thequick things that weare there, and some of them had eaten snakes andadders.
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