The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27

OF Roanoke.
The spring of 1909 found of tile settlers alive and in
good health and the eagerly work planting crops
Strengthening the palisades and improving their houses
Tn the meantime the London Company had secured new
charter and had appointed Lord Delaware Governor and
CaptainGenera1 OF Virginia Nine vessels were fitted out
and dispatched to Virginia with five hundred settlers Seven
OF these vessels after having experienced storms
rived at Jamestown in August 1000 bringing the third supply
Among the influential of this nstanent were
OF Smiths old enemies Archer and Radcliffe Radcliffe had
been depoed from the presidency Of tt colony for nef
cheney, and had been back home. IN way he
succeeded in having himself favor back
evidently agreeing with Archer make it disagrecabe for
Smith possible Radcliffe unmey end before
he had been able to do much mischief In undertaking to
deal with the Indians he had Smith do he fell into
ambuscade captured and cruelty tortured to death
1t seemed that in the supply brought
mission dsodge and succeed Smith As delegates OF Lord
Delaware there were only three gentlemen Sir George Soers
Sir Thomas Gates and CAPTAIN Newport who equipped
with this official prerequisite These had for
gotten themselves all together in the boat which boat
separated from the fleet and eventually wrecked upon
the shores OF Berm1das Smiths OF office had not
yet expired, and though had commission to displacc
him, Archer Radcliffe and their followers sought to usurp
the government Smith, however. proved himself equal to
the emergency arrested the macontens and sent Captain
West, brother OF Lord Delaware with hundred and
twenty others, make settlement where Richmond now
stands. As has already been stated Smith, returning
this plantation Jamestown, severely wounded,
and forced return to England for medical treatment
bad day for the settlement when Smith left it.
1t would be much that the disasters which came
upon would have been avoided had he remained at
Jamestown; it is not too much to however that many
OF these disasters would have been avoided and the colonss
would have been saved, least from OF the awful
s,erings that followed. At any rate there would have
been among brave and untirng soldier exemplyng
forttude exhibiting utter unsesness his for
those under his charge.
Ii the suferngs of the colons had already been great
tcy were not compared with the calamties through
which they to go in the winter of 1ooo16Io There IS
not more ptul than the story OF that long, hard
winter Their supplies exhausted; the Indians
had been offended aienated and using every
opportunity and destroy the settlers 1t soon be-
came impossible these wretced coonists, shut IN at
Jamestown to secure food themselves from sarva-
ton The shallow we'll from which they got their drinking
water proved to full of deadly poison. They tell SICK III
great numbers and who sick so starved
as to be unable to care for the sick to food The
horses hogs that had been brought over Tor breed
ing purposes were slaughtered and eaten Then they ate
dogs rats and addes every OF living thing upon when
they could lay hands they First an Indian who had
been killed poor wretch killed his own WIFE, eat
np part Of her and sailing down the remainder for future
use For this crime burned at the stake Mensn their
suffering and desoaton flung away their Bibles and ced
cut in rebellion against God They into the winter five
hundred in numbers they out OF the winter With only
sxty-fve stricken and wasted wctchcs Such was the trag