THE LONDON COMPANY SENDS TO AMERICA A COLONY IN SEARCH OF GOLD. THE EMIGRANTS SET SAIL. THE LONG, ROUNDABOUT VOYAGE. THE COLONISTS MAKE A SETTLEMENT AT JAMESTOWN IN 1607. THEIR DWELLINGS AND THEIR CHURCH. FEVER, HUNGER, AND INDIANS. JOHN SMITH SAVES THE SETTLEMENT FROM RUIN. HIS EARLY ADVENTURES. HE GOES UP THE CHICKAHOMINY RIVER IN SEARCH OF THE PACIFIC. THE INDIANS CAPTURE SMITH. THEY SPARE-HIS LIFE. LIFE AMONG THE INDIANS OF VIRGINIA. SMITH IS TAKEN TO POWHATAN. LITTLE POCAHONTAS SAVES JOHN SMITH'S LIFE. HIS EXPLORATIONS. THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN. HE PLANS TO GET RID OF THE WHITE MEN. HE REFUSES THEM CORN. THE FRIENDLY AID OF POCAHONTAS. "CORN OR YOUR LIFE!" SMITH MADE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL. HIS RETURN TO ENGLAND. TO THE PUPIL 1. Describe the Jamestown settlers. Can you form a mental picture of their first dwellings? 2. Write an account of Smith's capture by the Indians and of his later experiences with them. 3. What do you admire in Smith? In Pocahontas? What do you think of Powhatan? 4. Trace on your map Smith's voyages and explorations. 5. When was Jamestown settled? CHAPTER V Nathaniel Bacon and the Uprising of the People in Virginia in 1676 [1647-1676] When Smith returned to England he left the colony without a leader. At once the Indians, who had been held in check by fear of Smith, began to rob and plunder the settlement, and at the same time famine and disease aided in the work of destruction. Dogs, horses, and even rats and mice were in demand for food, and while at its worst the famine compelled the suffering colonists to feed upon the bodies of their own dead. At the close of that terrible winter, known ever since as the "Starving Time," barely sixty of the five hundred men whom Smith had left in the colony survived. The future promised nothing, and the wretched remnant of sufferers were about to leave Virginia for their fatherland when an English vessel hove in sight on the James. Greatly to their relief and joy Lord Delaware had arrived with a company of men and much-needed supplies. This was in June, 1610. [Illustration: Tobacco Plant.] By reason of ill-health Lord Delaware soon returned to England, leaving Sir Thomas Dale in control of the colony. He was even more firm and vigorous than Smith had been in dealing with the worthless men who made the greater part of the colony. Some of the most unruly were flogged, some were branded with hot irons, and one man was sentenced to death by starvation.