The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27
The Sunday I'imes-Dispatcn.

Iu1n1A The Sunday Times Dispatcn.
hooraby buried having the ordinance Fort shot off
with many volcys OF small shot Our were destroyed
with cruel diseases swcngs fixes, burning fevers ana
by wares and departed suddenly but the most part OF
them died Of famine. There Engishten
left in oregne counrc in such mserie were i'll this
discovered Virginia. Wee watched every three nights
lying the bare, cold ground what weather soever came
Warded all the day which brought to bee the
most feeble wetces Our food being small tin OF barley
sod in for five day. drink cold water taken
of the river which flood tide vere salt and at low
tide full of slime and filth which the destruction OF
many OF Thus we lived for space OF five months
i'll this miserable Distress having five able men 10 man
our bulwarks upon any occasion II had not pleased Su
put the savages hearts had all persisted by
those wild and cruel being in that weak estate as we
were Our men night and day goanng in every corner OF
the fort most pittiul eare there any conscience in
men it would make their hearts bleed hear the pttfu MUIR
murings and oucries of Our sick without relief Every
night and day for the space OF six weeks departing ont
OF the world many times three four in the night and in the
morning their bodies traled Of their cabins like Dogs 10
be buried In this sort did the mortatie of divers OF
cur people 1t pleased God after while send the people
which mortal enemies, relieve with ycualis
as bread corn fish and flesh great pene which the
setting up OF our feeble otherwise had all periscd
Before the had come, of the hundred who
had been left by Newport only about fifty left alive
With the approach OF winter tho cosdon Of things seemed
TO have been greatly improved Smith sort OF general
consent seemed have got things pretty we'll in his
own hands The members OF the Council had nearly died
during the and it felt necessary that their
places should be filled Smith had been allie to secure from
the Indians provisions which seemed be enough TO put
them through the coming He had succeeded in max
ing their homes little comfortable and reasonably
well prepared for the winter His dealings the
Indians only secured for Supplies but seemed to
have established amicablc relations entering
upon the winter greatly disturbed by any appefcsos
from that quarter.
NewIfart returned with the first snpny early in January
1908 bringing about hundred and twenty settlers
the night Of his arrival fire bie out and consumed the
Tort sorehouscs and most OF the cabins which the people
were lodged. Only three houses were left standing As If
hard and But the coosts somehow managed 10 pu
through the long winter months without any serious loss and
with the opening of the spring they themselves about the
improving OF their conditions On Newpors departure Smith
managed the colony we'll and the settlers spent the summer
il building their houses.
In September 1908 Newport returned with the second
supply containing seventy settlers twenty
eight gentlemen fourteen trademen twelve laborcrs
This supply like the first really small addition TO
the comfort and welfare of the colony The supplies that were
brought from England ALWAYS inferior in quality
and insufficient in quantity It complained not without
that the settlers brought with each supply
instead OF being helpful, proved be burden and instead
OF simplifying the situation, greatly embarrassed and compl
Gated it. the settlers could have hcen eat and the
supplies, meage they brought alone the situa
ton might have been improved As was conditions re-
NAMED grave they possibly could be Full orebodng
aud dsust Smith set about the the winter