Captain Newport to Powhatan's village in order to crown
him like a king.

This was not at all to the pleasure of the savage, who failed of
understanding what my master and Captain Newport meant, when they wanted
him to kneel down so they might put the crown upon his head. If all the
stories which I have heard regarding the matter are true, they must have
had quite a scrimmage before succeeding in getting him into what they
believed was a proper position to receive the gifts of the London
Company.

Our people, so Master Hunt told me, were obliged to take him by the
shoulders and force him to his knees, after which they clapped the crown
on his head, and threw the red robe around his shoulders in a mighty
hurry lest he show fight and overcome them.

It was some time before Captain Smith could make him understand that
it was a great honor which was being done him, but when he did get it
through his head, he took off his old moccasins and brought from the hut
his raccoon skin coat, with orders that my master and Captain Newport
send them all to King James in London, as a present from the great
Powhatan of Virginia.

After this had been done, Captain Newport sailed up the James River in
search of the passage to the South Sea, and my master set about putting
Jamestown into proper order.

PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE

Once more Captain Smith made the rule that those who would not work
should not eat, and this time, with all the Council at his back,
together with such men as Captain Newport had just brought with him, you
can well fancy his orders were obeyed.

In addition to the stocks which had been built, he had a pillory set up,
and those gentlemen who were not inclined to labor with their hands as
well as they might, were forced to stand in it to their discomfort.

The next thing which he did was to have a large, deep well dug, so that
we might have sweet water from it for drinking purposes, rather than be
forced to use that from the river, for it was to his mind that through
this muddy water did the sickness come to us.

When the winter was well begun, and Captain Newport ceased to search for
the South Sea passage, because of having come to the falls of the James
River, Captain Smith forced our people to build twenty stout houses such
as would serve to withstand an attack from the savages, and again was
the palisade stretched from one to the other, until the village stood in
the form of a square.

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