Y to help the settlement.
As the weather was warm, the emigrants did not begin building
log cabins at once, but slept on the ground, sheltered
by boughs of trees. For a church they had an old tent, in which
they met on Sunday. They were all members of the Church of England,
or the Episcopal Church, and that tent was the first place of worship
that we know of which was opened by Englishmen in America. When the
hot weather came,
many fell sick. Soon the whole settlement was like a hospital.
Sometimes three or four
would die in one night. Captain Smith, though not well himself, did
everything he could for those who needed his help. When the sickness
was over, some of the settlers were so discontented that they
determined to seize the only vessel there was at Jamestown and go
back to England. Captain
Smith turned the cannon of the fort against them. The deserters saw
that if they tried to leave the harbor he would knock their vessel to
pieces, so they
came back. One of the leaders of these men was tried
and shot; the other
was sent to Englan