John Smith, The general history of Virginia. Summary.
Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, one of the first movers, needed assistance and
some men like Captain John Smith, Master Edward Maria Wingfield, Master
Robert Hunt etc., volunteered.
Once the group of people was solved, they needed to clear up the transport,
which was committed to Captain Christopher Newport. Therefore, three ships
were provided.
The trip was ready and there were orders to follow. These were put in a box,
which could not be opened until they got to their destination, Virginia).
Nevertheless, on 19th of December (1606), they had to keep six weeks in the
sight of England due to unprosperous winds. This period of time was quite bad
because many of them became sick, like the preacher who decided to continue
thanks to his god beliefs.
During the route they stopped in many places in which they made some trades
with savages. Nevertheless. the voyage became quite long because they
passed at least three days without seeing any rest of land. This fact annoyed a
little bit the company.
That night the box was opened and the orders read: Bartholomew, John Smith,
Edward Wingfield, etc., were chosen to be councils. Then, they had to choose a
president in order to make decisions along with Major council.
Eventually they arrived to Powhatan, and it can be said that the real adventure
started then.
During all the trip, there were problems with John Smith, who was committed
as prisoner but fortunately the preacher got to reconcile them.
The troubles started there. Crew was starving, toil was harder and cause of this
fifty people were buried. Hence, the president wanted to escape from those
miseries and as a result of that he was replaced by Kendall. Meantime, John
Smith tried to store some provisions. In addition, John Smith was interested in
improve his knowledge, therefore six or seven men more or less went down the
river to explode. Once there, they had some problems with savages, who
thought they were famished. Consequently, as a good action, they provided
them some corn, which was accepted by John Smith's men. However, later the
savages realized that they had enough corn and they got angry.
In spite of all the problems, John Smith wanted to keep living and exploring the
place due to the money the Spanish promised them. Nonetheless, the
president did not thought as him and made a plan to come back to England.
That project was stopped by John Smith and this produced the president's
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