But these spent most of their time in exploring the bay and the rivers, in hunting for gold, and in quarreling with one another.

With the summer came fevers, and soon fifty of the one hundred and five original colonists were dead.

Then followed a cold, hard winter, and many of those who had not died of fever in the summer, now died of cold.

The colonists brought little food with them, they were too lazy to plant much corn, and they were able to get only small supplies from the Indians.

Indeed, the early history of Virginia is given mainly to accounts of "starving times." Of the first thousand colonists not one hundred lived to tell the tale of those early days.
[Sidenote: Sir Thomas Dale.] [Sidenote: His wise action.] 33.