Guns and grindstone, Smith told them, were too violent and heavy devils for them to carry from river to river.

Instead he gave them, from the trading store, gifts enticing to the savage eye, and not susceptible of being turned against the donors.
Here at Jamestown in midwinter were more food and less mortal sickness than in the previous fearful summer, yet no great amount of food, and now suffering, too, from bitter cold.

Nor had the sickness ended, nor dissensions.

Less than fifty men were all that held together England and America--a frayed cord, the last strands of which might presently part....
Then up the river comes Christopher Newport in the Francis and John, to be followed some weeks later by the Phoenix.

Here is new life--stores for the settlers and a hundred new Virginians! How certain, at any rate, is the exchange of talk of home and hair-raising stories of this wilderness between the old colonists and the new! And certain is the relief and the renewed hopes.