Whatever is the truth about Mr

　　Whatever is the truth about Mr. Wingfield's inefficiency andembezzlement of corn meal, Communion sack, and penny whittles, hisenemies had no respect for each other or concord among themselves.
　　It is Wingfield's testimony that Ratcliffe said he would not havebeen deposed if he had visited Ratcliffe during his sickness. Smithsaid that Wingfield would not have been deposed except for Archer;that the charges against him were frivolous. Yet,chanel 2.55 bags, says Wingfield, "Ido believe him the first and only practiser in these practices," andhe attributed Smith's hostility to the fact that "his name wasmentioned in the intended and confessed mutiny by Galthrop." Nootherreference is made to this mutiny. Galthrop was one of those who diedin the previous August.
　　One of the best re-enforcements of the first supply was MatthewScrivener, who was appointed one of the Council. He was a sensibleman, and he and Smith worked together in harmony for some time. Theywere intent upon building up the colony. Everybody else in the campwas crazy about the prospect of gold: there was, says Smith, "notalk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, loadgold, such a bruit of gold that one mad fellow desired to be buriedin the sands, lest they should by their art make gold of his bones."He charges that Newport delayed his return to England on account ofthis gold fever, in order to load his vessel (which remained fourteenweeks when it might have sailed in fourteen days) with gold-dust.
　　Captain Martin seconded Newport in this,cheap jordans; Smith protested against it;he thought Newport was no refiner, and it did torment him "to see allnecessary business neglected, to fraught such a drunken ship with somuch gilded durt." This was the famous load of gold that proved tobe iron pyrites.
　　In speaking of the exploration of the James River as far as the Fallsby Newport, Smith, and Percy, we have followed the statements ofPercy and the writer of Newport's discovery that they saw the greatPowhatan. There is much doubt of this. Smith in his "True Relation"does not say so; in his voyage up the Chickahominy he seems to haveseen Powhatan for the first time; and Wingfield speaks of Powhatan,on Smith's return from that voyage, as one "of whom before we had noknowledge,chanel wallet." It is conjectured that the one seen at Powhatan's seatnear the Falls was a son of the "Emperor." It was partly theexaggeration of the times to magnify discoveries, and partly Englishlove of high titles, that attributed such titles as princes,emperors, and kings to the half-naked barbarians and petty chiefs ofVirginia.
　　In all the accounts of the colony at this period, no mention is madeof women, and it is not probable that any went over with the firstcolonists. The character of the men was not high. Many of them were"gentlemen" adventurers,cheap moncler jackets, turbulent spirits, who would not work, whowere much better fitted for piratical maraudings than the labor offounding a state. The historian must agree with the impressionconveyed by Smith, that it was poor material out of which to make acolony.
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