A few days, and away he is
again, first up to Rappahannock, and then across the bay. On this journey
he and his men come up with the giant Susquehannocks, who are not
Algonquins but Iroquois. After many hazards in which the forest and the
savage play their part, Smith and his band again return to Jamestown. In
all this adventuring they have gained much knowledge of the country and its
inhabitants--but yet no gold, and no further news of the South Sea or of
far Cathay.
It was now September and the second summer with its toll of fever victims
was well-nigh over. Autumn and renewed energy were at hand. All the land
turned crimson and gold. At Jamestown building went forward, together with
the gathering of ripened crops, the felling of trees, fishing and fowling,
and trading for Indian corn and turkeys.
One day George Percy, heading a trading party down the river, saw coming
toward him a white sailed ship, the Mary and Margaret-it was Christopher
Newport again, with the second supply. Seventy colonists came over on the
Mary and Margaret, among them a fair number of men of note. Here were
Captain Peter Wynne and Richard Waldo, "old soldiers and valiant gentlemen,"
Francis West, young brother of the Lord De La Warr, Rawley Crashaw, John
Codrington, Daniel Tucker, and others. This is indeed an important ship. Among
the laborers, the London Council had sent eight Poles and Germans, skilled in
their own country in the production of pitch, tar, glass, and soap-ashes.
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