They were prone to call one another villain, but actual villainy--save as jealousy, suspicion, and hatred are villainy--seems rarely to have been present.

Even one who was judged a villain and shot for his villainy seems hardly to have deserved such fate.

Jamestown peninsula turned out to be feverous; fantastic hopes were matched by strange fears; there were homesickness, incompatibilities, unfamiliar food and water and air, class differences in small space, some petty tyrannies, and very certain dangers.

The worst summer heat was not yet, and the fort was building.

Trees must be felled, cabins raised, a field cleared for planting, fishing and hunting carried on.