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Pioneers of the Old South

CHAPTER V
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Evident enough are faults of temper.

But he had great courage and energy and at times a lofty disinterestedness.
Again winter drew on at Jamestown, and with it misery on misery.

George Percy, now President, lay ill and unable to keep order.

The multitude, "unbridled and heedless," pulled this way and that.

Before the cold had well begun, what provision there was in the storehouse became exhausted.
That stream of corn from the Indians in which the colonists had put dependence failed to flow.


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