If this was their dream, reality was soon to modify it.
A new commodity of unsuspected commercial value began now to be grown in garden-plots along the James--the "weed" par excellence, tobacco.

That John Rolfe who had been shipwrecked on the Sea Adventure was now a planter in Virginia.

His child Bermuda had died in infancy, and his wife soon after their coming to Jamestown.

Rolfe remained, a young man, a good citizen, and a Christian.

And he loved tobacco.