“Countrymen! The long experience of our late miseries should be sufficient to persuade everyone to correct his errors and determine to play the man. Think not, any of you, that my pains, nor the adventurers’ purse, will maintain you in idleness and sloth. I speak not thus to you all, for well I know that divers of you deserve both honor and reward, but the greater part must be more industrious or starve. It hath heretofore been the policy of the Council to treat alike the diligent and the idle, so that a man might work not at all yet was he assured of warm lodging and a full belly--at least as much of these comforts as was enjoyed by them that toiled for the betterment of the colony. Such a condition will not I maintain. You see that power now resteth wholly in myself. You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work--except by sickness he is disabled--shall not eat. The labors of thirty or forty industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers. That there is disaffection among you I know. I hope that it will cease forthwith, but if not, I warn you that I shall hesitate not to take the life of any man who seeks to sow the seeds of treason in this His Majesty’s colony of Virginia. I would wish you, therefore, without contempt of my authority, to study to observe the orders that I here set down, for there are now no more Councillors to protect you and to curb my endeavors. He that offendeth, therefore, shall most assuredly meet due punishment.” XXII. A CURIOUS COMBAT The settlement is reduced to order and industry--The renegade Dutchmen and their friends in the fort--Smith stalks a traitor through the forest--Captures him and brings him back to be hanged--The Chief of the Paspaheghs enters upon a dangerous enterprise--He finds Smith ready to try a conclusion with him--The Indian giant and the Englishman engage in a wrestling match--The bout ends in the discomfiture of the Paspahegh--He cuts “a sorry figure squirming like a toad under a harrow”--He is carried captive to the fort and held for exchange with the traitorous Dutchmen--But Smith’s heart is touched by the appeal of the warriors and he releases the Chief.