The Settlement of Jamestown-1607 by Captain John Smith

http://www.nationalcenter.org/SettlementofJamestown.html

This is an account ("taken from the third book of the five volume "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles: Together with The True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar" (London, 1624).") of the settlement of Jamestown in 1607, what is interesting about this account is that it not only goes in depth into the formation and settlement of Jamestown, but it also gives accounts of interactions/confrontations between the settlers and the Native people, who in the account are referred to as "savages". One reference towards the native people is made during the actual landing on American shores as depicted by this quote, "The first land they made they called Cape Henry; where thirty of them recreating themselves on shore, were assaulted by five savages, who hurt two of the English very dangerously." This quote depicts the natives as vicious, deadly savages, who's only method was war. The account then leads into the eventual peace between the settlers and the natives, and how the assistance of the natives, including one Pocahontas, were vital to the survival of the Jamestown settlers, as many of the settlers were dying from starvation due to failures in crops and supplies. What this account shows, apart from the in depth social and political construction of Jamestown, is the evolution of the relationship between the native people and the settlers, from one of intense hostility and fighting to a relationship where kindness and even love (between Captain John Smith and Pocahontas) could form.