The white men landed, bearing a store of hatchets, gewgaws, and colored cloth.

The first Lord Baltimore, having had opportunity enough for observing savages, had probably handed on to his sagacious sons his conclusions as to ways of dealing with the natives of the forest.

And the undeniable logic of events was at last teaching the English how to colonize.

Englishmen on Roanoke Island, Englishmen on the banks of the James, Englishmen in that first New England colony, had borne the weight of early inexperience and all the catalogue of woes that follow ignorance.

All these early colonists alike had been quickly entangled in strife with the people whom they found in the land.
First they fell on their knees, And then on the Aborigines.
But by now much water had passed the mill.