Before them once more rose Jamestown,
palisaded now, and riding before it the three ships. And here there barked
an English dog, and here were Englishmen to welcome Englishmen. Both
parties had news to tell, but the town had most. On the 26th of May,
Indians had made an attack four hundred of them with the Werowance of
Paspihe. One Englishman had been killed, a number wounded. Four of the
Council had each man his wound.
Newport must now lift anchor and sail away to England. He left at Jamestown
a fort "having three Bulwarkes at every corner like a halfe Moone, and
foure or five pieces of Artillerie mounted in them," a street or two of
reed-thatched cabins, a church to match, a storehouse, a market-place and
drill ground, and about all a stout palisade with a gate upon the river
side. He left corn sown and springing high, and some food in the
storehouse. And he left a hundred Englishmen who had now tasted of the
country fare and might reasonably fear no worse chance than had yet
befallen. Newport promised to return in twenty weeks with full supplies.
John Smith says that his enemies, chief amongst whom was Wingfield, would
have sent him with Newport to England, there to stand trial for attempted
mutiny, whereupon he demanded a trial in Virginia, and got it and was fully
cleared. He now takes his place in the Council, beforetime denied him. He
has good words only for Robert Hunt, the chaplain, who, he says, went from
one to the other with the best of counsel.
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