Old-fashioned gardening Author:Grace Tabor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LISH GEN URERS all the last furious he three ships which, rv;|re bringing the first i scudded into haven fer break of day on wn them the broad ... more » jwo great headlands, iy to the north. And the former for their the lad who died | a chance to be the "I; for his brother, the James—Charles I, i two-and-forty years rig recreation," thirty after passing Cape at starched ruffs and 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 velvet breeches, these with "panes" or slashings of silk. The Spanish dagger which gentlemen of then were wont to carry must have been left behind, likewise the fine gilt-handled sword; for in explanation of the assault made by five "saulvages" upon the party, in which two of the English were severely wounded, it is stated that they were unarmed. Curiously significant of the carelessness with which these restless blades had come in search of change and adventure and riches, is just this simple statement—that they who habitually wore arms, landed thus without them, on a shore known to be teeming with aboriginal inhabitants, whose friendliness of one time was by now very doubtful. The experience of Raleigh's lost colony of the decade previous seems not to have impressed them as one would suppose. The three small ships which Newport commanded brought a total number of one hundred and five passengers. Of these, only eighteen were avowedly men of toil—laborers; more than fifty names on the list have "gentleman" standing opposite them, one was a clergyman, six were the nucleus of the Provincial Council—these "gentlemen" also, of course; the names of the remaining seven of the Council were not to be revealed until all were landed and the sealed box containing the king's final instructions and these names, might be opened—and there was a barber to curl theirwigs, a tailor to k...« less