survival is the fact that they didn't harvest for themselves, but rely on Indians. During the

winter of 1609-10, things could have been better, yet 500 settlers were starving from lack

of harvesting. The result is that they showed one and only authentic examples of

cannibalism witnessed in Virginia. By the spring, only sixty of them were left alive. Also,

Indians gave them trouble time to time. What Captain Christopher Newport did as soon as

he landed was building a fort and trying to make friends with Indians. Yet, when he came

back, he found that two hundred of Powhatan's warriors had attacked the fort. Even

afterward, uneasiness with Indians continues throughout. Nonetheless, important thing to

notice is that many mistakes of settlers are offspring of the poor organization and direction

of the colony. The way leaders were picked didn't help the colony, not to mention that the

council members spent most of their time bickering and intriguing against one another.

Later, John Smith came to rescue by putting people to work, but that changed again when

the Virginia Company came to take over the charge with military di

demand for tobacco was multiplying as more and more settlers grew tobacco.

The Virginia Company in 1609 was not yet ready to abandon its goal of making its

fair princess, Pocahontas. Later, he also made astonishingly accurate map of the country

English settlement. They succeeded in planting settlements at several points along the

winter of 1608-9 he lost only seven or eight men. It is Smith who kept colony going by

for smoking "for fun," it changed the Virginia Company's economy completely, for the

everybody to laboring. Even though the collective organization of labor in the colony was

better. The colonists started to plant tobacco, and in 1617, ten years after the first landing

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