BAYNE: THE SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA l17 
Another writer, seeing what he describes, says of this period: 
“There were never Englishmen left in a forreigne countrey in 
such miserie as wee were in this new discovered Virginia. Wee 
watched every three nights, lying on the bare cold ground, what 
weather soever came; warded all the next day; which brought our 
men to bee most feeble wretches. Our food was but a small can 
of barlie sod in water, to five men a day. Our drinke, cold water 
taken out of the river; which was, at a floud, verie salt; at a low 
tide, full of slime and filth; which was the destruction of many 
of our men. 
“Thus we lived for the space of five months in this miserable 
distresse, not having five able men to man our bulwarkes upon 
any occasion. If it had not pleased God to have put a terrour in 
the savage hearts, we had all perished by those wild and cruell 
pagans, being in that weake estate as we were; our men night and 
day groaning in every corner of the fort most pittifull to heare. 
If there were any conscience in men, it would make their harts te 
bleed to heare the pittifull murmurings and outcries of our sick 
men without reliefe, every night and day, for the space of sixe 
weeks; some departing out of the world, many times three or 
foure in a night; in the morning, their bodies trailed out of their 
cabines like dogges, to be buried. In this sort, did I see the mor- 
talitie of divers of our people.” 
To Smith, more than to anyone else, and next to him, perhaps, 
to the little Indian princess Pocahontas, the colony of Jamestown 
owed its preservation. ‘Time fails me to review his services and 
her acts of mercy and friendship to the suffering planters. 
With Captain John Smith we have all been acquainted from our 
early childhood. We have all loved and lingered over the story 
of Pocahontas and of the daring deeds, the singular perils, the 
misfortunes, and successes of the hero indissolubly associated with 
her. We need not here rehearse the one nor recount the other. 
It is not, perhaps, generally known that Pocahontas was first 
married to a Captain Kocoum, John Rolfe being her second hus- 
band. Her name was really Matoaka, though she was also called 
