"The sixth of August there died John Asbie of the bloodie Flixe. The ninth
day died George Flowre of the swelling. The tenth day died William Bruster
gentleman, of a wound given by the Savages .... The fourteenth day Jerome
Alikock, Ancient, died of a wound, the same day Francis Mid-winter, Edward
Moris, Corporall, died suddenly. The fifteenth day their died Edward Browne
and Stephen Galthrope. The sixteenth day their died Thomas Gower gentleman.
The seventeenth day their died Thomas Mounslie. The eighteenth day theer
died Robert Pennington and John Martine gentlemen. The nineteenth day died
Drue Piggase gentleman.
"The two and twentieth day of August there died Captain Bartholomew Gosnold
one of our Councell, he was honourably buried having all the Ordnance in
the Fort shot off, with many vollies of small shot ....
"The foure and twentieth day died Edward Harrington and George Walker and
were buried the same day. The six and twentieth day died Kenelme
Throgmortine. The seven and twentieth day died William Roods. The eight and
twentieth day died Thomas Stoodie, Cape Merchant. The fourth day of
September died Thomas Jacob,Sergeant. The fifth day there died Benjamin
Beast . . . ."*
* Percy's "Discourse."
Extreme misery makes men blind, unjust, and weak of judgment. Here was
gross wretchedness, and the colonists proceeded to blame A and B and C,
lost all together in the wilderness. It was this councilor or that
councilor, this ambitious one or that one, this or that almost certainly
ascertained traitor! Wanting to steal the pinnace, the one craft left by
Newport, wanting to steal away in the pinnace and leave the mass--small
enough mass now!--without boat or raft or straw to cling to, made the
favorite accusation.
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