Nevertheless, a little tobacco was sent over to England, and then a little more, and then a larger quantity.

In less than five years it had become a main export; and from that time to this profoundly has it affected the life of Virginia and, indeed, of the United States.
This then is the wide and general event with which John Rolfe is connected.

But there is also a narrower, personal happening that has pleased all these centuries.

Indian difficulties yet abounded, but Dale, administrator as well as man of Mars, wound his way skilfully through them all.

Powhatan brooded to one side, over there at Werowocomoco.
Captain Samuel Argall was again in Virginia, having brought over sixty-two colonists in his ship, the Treasurer.