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The Story of the Jamestown Settlement

Edward Eggleston

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Originally published in 1891 as a portion of the author’s larger “The Household History of the United States and Its People,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, recounts, in simple language, the story of the first permanent English settlement in the New World—Jamestown.Sample Captain John Smith went back to England, in 1609, there were nearly five hundred white people in Virginia. But the settlers soon got into trouble with the Indians, who lay in the woods and killed every one that ventured out. There was no longer any chance to buy corn, and the food was soon exhausted. The starving people ate the hogs, the dogs, and the horses, even to their skins. Then they ate rats, mice, snakes, toadstools, and whatever they could get that might stop their hunger. A dead Indian was presently eaten, and, as their hunger grew more extreme, the people were forced to consume their own dead. Starving men wandered off into the woods and died there; their companions, finding them, devoured them as hungry wild beasts might have done. This was always afterward remembered as “the starving time.”About the Eggleston discovered a gift for writing when he was a high school student in Indiana. His militant opposition to slavery, however, caused him to refuse an offer to attend the University of Virginia. In 1871 he began a career as a popular novelist, but eventually his interest shifted from fiction to history. Other works include “The Beginning of a Nation” and “A First Book in American History.”

Language: English

Pages: 9

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: September 25, 2011

The Story of the Jamestown Settlement

Edward Eggleston

0/5 ( ratings)

Originally published in 1891 as a portion of the author’s larger “The Household History of the United States and Its People,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, recounts, in simple language, the story of the first permanent English settlement in the New World—Jamestown.Sample Captain John Smith went back to England, in 1609, there were nearly five hundred white people in Virginia. But the settlers soon got into trouble with the Indians, who lay in the woods and killed every one that ventured out. There was no longer any chance to buy corn, and the food was soon exhausted. The starving people ate the hogs, the dogs, and the horses, even to their skins. Then they ate rats, mice, snakes, toadstools, and whatever they could get that might stop their hunger. A dead Indian was presently eaten, and, as their hunger grew more extreme, the people were forced to consume their own dead. Starving men wandered off into the woods and died there; their companions, finding them, devoured them as hungry wild beasts might have done. This was always afterward remembered as “the starving time.”About the Eggleston discovered a gift for writing when he was a high school student in Indiana. His militant opposition to slavery, however, caused him to refuse an offer to attend the University of Virginia. In 1871 he began a career as a popular novelist, but eventually his interest shifted from fiction to history. Other works include “The Beginning of a Nation” and “A First Book in American History.”

Language: English

Pages: 9

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: September 25, 2011

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