en to London and shown to the
Queen. I am sorry to have to say that poor Pocahontas died there and
never saw her native land again.

Captain Smith got safely back to Jamestown. But his troubles were not at
an end, for the colonists were as hard to deal with as the Indians. Some
of them had found a kind of yellow stuff which they were sure was gold.
They loaded a ship with this and sent it to England, thinking that they
would all be rich. But the yellow stuff proved to be what is known as "a
fool's gold," and worth no more than so much sand. Instead of becoming
rich, they were laughed at as great fools.

After a while Smith was made governor, and he now tried a new plan to
make the men work. He told them that if they did not work they should
not eat. None of them wanted to starve, and they knew that John Smith
meant just what he said, so they began to build houses and to dig the
ground and plant crops. But some of them grumbled and some of them
swore, and it was anything but a happy family.

Captain Smith did not like this swearing, and he took a funny way to
stop it. When the men came home at night each one who had sworn had a
can of cold water poured down his sleeve for every time he had done so.
Did any of my readers ever try that? If they did they would know why the
men soon quit grumbling and swearing. All was beginning to go well in
the colony when Captain Smith was hurt by some gunpowder that took fire
and went off. He was hurt so badly that he had to go back to England.
After that all went ill.

As soon as their governor was gone the lazy men quit working. The
profane men swore worse than before. They ate up all their food in a
hurry, and the Indians would bring them no more. Sickness and hunger
came and carried many of them to the grave. Some of them meddled with
the Indians and were killed. There were five hundred of them when winter
set in; but when spring came only sixty of them were alive. And all
this took place because one wise man, Captain John Smith, was hurt and
had to go home.

The whole colony would have broken up if ships had not come out with
more men and plenty of food. Soon after that, the people began to plant
the ground and raise tobacco, which sold well in England. Many of them
became rich, and the little settlement at Jamestown in time grew into
the great colony of Virginia.

This ends the story of the hero of Jamestown. Now let us say something
about the hero of Plymouth. In the year 1