Kemps and Tussore were given their liberty soon after corn planting time. "But so well they liked our companies they did not desire to goe from us." Nothing further is recorded as to the fate of Tussore, sometimes called Kinsock. Strachey, Secretary of the Colony who was in Virginia 1610-1611, mentions having obtained certain information from One Kemps, an Indian, who died the last year of the scurvye at Jamestown, after he had dwelt with us almost one whole year, much made of by our lord generall and who could speake a pretty deale of English, and came orderly to church every day to prayers, and observed with us the keeping of the Sabaoth both by ceassing from labour and repairing to church. STARVING TIME Dire disaster finally struck the colony. Food supplies were exhausted. Starvation became a reality. A general drought blanketed eastern Virginia. The Indians too were on short rations. Smith, the provider, who had been injured by an explosion of gunpowder, had returned to England. It was one of the most cruel experiences ever endured by a group of men. The climax came during the winter of 1609-10. A few quotations from the records of that period paint the picture in its most terrible colors. Lord De La Warr who arrived in 1610 just in time to save the colony from abandonment reported to the London Company: Our people, together with the Indians (not to friend), had the last winter destroyed and kild up all our hoggs, insomuch as of five or six hundred (as it is supposed), there was not above one sow, that we can heare of, left alive; not a henn nor a chick in the forte (and our horses and mares they had eaten with the first). [Illustration: A NEW INSTRVCTION OF PLOWING AND SETTING OF CORNE, HANDLED IN MANNER, OF A DIALOGVE betweene a Ploughman and a _Scholler_. _Wherein is proved plainely that Plowing and_ Setting, is much more profitable and lesse chargeable, than Plowing and Sowing. By EDVVARD MAXEY. Gent. _He that withdraweth the Corne, the people will curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth Corne._ Prou.11.26. Imprinted at London by _Felix Kyngston_, dwelling in Pater noster Rowe, over against the signe of the Checker, 1601. Photo by Thomas L. Williams] [Illustration: Indians boiling maple sap below and planting corn above. Picture by Lafitau, 1724.] [Illustration: The earliest picture of Maize. Copied from Leonhard Fuchs 1542.] And Reverend William Simmonds states in regard to this same starving time of the winter of 1609-10: as for our hogs, hens, goats, sheepe, horse, or what lived; our commanders and officers did daily consume them: some small proportions (sometimes) we tasted, till all was devoured.