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The su What was there I could do? I had written by the Due Return to Sir Edwyn, and tohated Sir Edwyn as he hated tobacco and witchcraft "Choose the devil, but not Sir Edwyn Sandys!" had been his passionate words to the Company the year before A certain fifth of November had despoiled my Lord of Northumberland of wealth, fame, and influence Small hope there was in those two That the Governor and Council, reers shared, wished me well I did not doubt, but that was all Yeardley had done all he could do,this delay There was no further help in him; nor would I have asked it Already out of favor with the Warwick faction, he had risked enough for me andher, perhaps, to a death by fierce tortures; ely taken to returning to the settleitives from justice which before we had demanded froauntlet of the Indian villages, war parties, and hunting bands, ould have been before us but endless forest and a winter which for us would have had no spring? I could not see her die of hunger and cold, or by the teeth of the wolves I could not do what I should have liked to do,--take, single-handed, that King's ship with its sturdy crew and sail with her south and ever southwards, before us nothing more formidable than Spanish ships, and beyond thee islands of the blest

There seeht that she could do Our Fate had us by the hands, and held us fast We stood still, and the days came and went like dreams

While the Asseess from my hundred Each day I sat with reat velvet chair, the Council on either hand, and listened to the droning of old Twine, the clerk, like the droning of the bees without the ; to the chant of the sergeant-at-ar and windy discourses from men who planted better than they spoke; to remarks by the Secretary, witty, cramhty words At Weyanoke we had had trouble with the Indians I was one who loved theht them well, for which reason the hundred chose e a greater severity toward those our natural enereater watchfulness on our part, the need for palisades and sentinels, the danger that lay in their acquisition of fireare for worthless Indian commodities This Indian business was the chief ht speech was needed, and spoke strongly; for my heart foreboded that which was to coravely, nodding his head; Master Pory, too, the Cape Merchant, and West were of my mind; but the re the very na in the smooth words and vows of brotherhood poured forth so plentifully by that red Apollyon, Opechancanough