Noble Parentage
As wee English have settled inne to our fort and towne of James Cittie, more salvages have come forward to examine our homes and to trade with us. It is uneasie, after all, for many of my countriemen worry constantlie that yon salvages will bludgeon the first Englyshman they see.
However, wee have begun to relax some, as these sundry salvages have begun bringyng their women and children along with them. For many of the men, including this gentil writer, have been mightie relieved at the arrival of these salvage women; after all, wee have been cooped up in a shippe for months with no one to keep us companie but other, smelly men.
On a different note, I am a bachelor, and as such, have not given much thought to wed or to have children. One child I have met, makes me wish I had donne these thyngs. This child, whom I have found is called "Mattoaka" or "Pokahontash." Matoaka is a delightful girl of about Eleven yeares age. She must be of noble birth, as she trailes behind her a court of salvage children like no other I have seen! Matoaka is highlie inquisitive, and at first, I thought she a nuisance, always runnyng around me, pestering me in her salvage tounge. Eventually, I gave in to her, and I must say! I could onlie wish to be the father of so kind and gentle a girl! I have already taught her bits of rudimentary Englysh, as well as shown her various knots used on shippes. She is a remarkable fast learner, and rejoices at anythynge new I mighte show her. In turn, she has taught me the rudimentaries of her salvage language. Although the private companie of the salvage maidens that come by everynight is refreshyng, teaching Matoaka in the ways of our Englande is much more the exciting and rewarding in the long run.
O! How I wish I was a father!
Bloudie Politicks
By order of the Londoun Companie, the Colonie council is required to selecte a Gouvernor from among the Gentlemen that compose said Councill. The result is nothyng but the bloudiestt of politicks this side of Parlaiment. Here I was thynkyng wee were buildyng a
Newe World!
The polls withinne James-Towne showed thatt Captayne Bartholomew Gosnold would easilie capture the noble title of Gouvernor as he wass generallie liked by all those in the settlemente and had a levell, and wise head upoun his shoulders. This makkes it all the more dissapointyng to see Captayne Gosnold fall with a case of the Bloudy Flux. His opponent, Edward Wingfield, a man of wealth and high class, took this oppourtunitie to rend Captayne Gosnold politikally by citing his pour constitution and that onlie a man with stout heart and health could lead the English in Virginiae. Gosnold did not have tyme to respond to the accusations of Wingfield, as he died shortly thereafter.
I took it upoun mineself to campaygn in Gosnold's place on the platfourm of "He who does not work, does not eat." Wingfield is a better politician than I, and campaygned on the promise of "Everyone will build houses made of Gold and the Salvages will feed us." It is unforunate the labourers may not vote, for I believe I would have won in a pinch it they had. Wingfield has now soughte to declarre warre on the Pahegh Salvages up the riveur in order to take their food and gold. As a further excuse, he states that they had the intente of murthering us all.
Wingfield is dygging his owne grave. The onlie reason wee attack the Pahegh is that they are close by, and its much too harde to ask the gentlemen of the colonie to work in the fields beside the labourers. The real problems lie with the Chikahominies, who regularly wait for Englishmen to exit the Fort to pisse in order to kill us off. The fact that we rely upon ye salvages for victual is another byg problem the Gouvernor ignores. Alreadie, Captayne Ratcliffe and myself are lookyng for support to gentlie relieve Wingfield of his post.
Captayne John Smith, His Payge
The noble busyness of exploration is a daungerous one rife with divers hazzards, thankfully, the Right Honourable Londoun Virginiae Companie hath provided a goodly connexion with ye ynternete, makyng the sending of discouveries so much the easier. One doth no longer need to fret that the island that was discouvered and named after oneself is not properly inscribed into the neweste of geography tomes!
The salvages, who visit our goodly settlemente, James'-towne, are much in awe of our Englysh ways, yet, retayn an understaundable hostilitie, as myself and my fellow Englyshmen hath planted ourselves in goodly array upon their fair land. This good Captayne believes they were under the ympression we onlie meant to stay for a fortnight.
Muchh work is yet to be donne in this, our sovereign's Realm of Virginiae, and I shall take it upon mineselff to place all newes on the progress of the settlemente of James' Cittie in this, my General Blogg.
-Captayne Smith
