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Pioneers of the Old South

CHAPTER IV
18/28

The weather became worse; they were in danger of shipwreck--had to bail the boat continually.

Indians gathered upon the shore and discharged flights of arrows, but were dispersed by a volley from the muskets.

The bread the English had with them went bad.
Wind and weather were adverse; three or four of the fifteen fell ill, but recovered.

The weather improved; they came to the seven-mile-wide mouth of "Patawomeck"-- the Potomac.

They turned their boat up this vast stream.


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