The fourth day of September died Thomas Jacob, Sergeant.

The fifth day there died Benjamin Beast...."* * Percy's "Discourse." Extreme misery makes men blind, unjust, and weak of judgment.

Here was gross wretchedness, and the colonists proceeded to blame A and B and C, lost all together in the wilderness.

It was this councilor or that councilor, this ambitious one or that one, this or that almost certainly ascertained traitor! Wanting to steal the pinnace, the one craft left by Newport, wanting to steal away in the pinnace and leave the mass--small enough mass now!--without boat or raft or straw to cling to, made the favorite accusation.

Upon this count, early in September, Wingfield was deposed from the presidency.