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Pioneers of the Old South

CHAPTER III
19/20

The friendly act trod upon the hostile, the hostile upon the friendly.

Through the miserable summer the hostile was uppermost; then with the autumn appeared the friendly mood, fortunate enough for "the most feeble wretches" at Jamestown.

Indians came laden with maize and venison.

The heat was a thing of the past; cool and bracing weather appeared; and with it great flocks of wild fowl, "swans, geese, ducks and cranes." Famine vanished, sickness decreased.

The dead were dead.
Of the hundred and four persons left by Newport less than fifty had survived.


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