Terribly hurt, he leaped overboard into the river, whence he was with difficulty rescued.
Smith was now deposed by Ratcliffe, Archer, and Martin, because, "being an ambityous, onworthy, and vayneglorious fellowe," say his detractors, "he wolde rule all and ingrose all authority into his own hands." Be this as it may, Smith was put on board one of the ships which were about to sail for England.

Wounded, and with none at Jamestown able to heal his hurt, he was no unwilling passenger.

Thus he departed, and Virginia knew Captain John Smith no more.

Some liked him and his ways, some liked him not nor his ways either.

He wrote of his own deeds and praised them highly, and saw little good in other mankind, though here and there he made an exception.