We thought they were exaggerating before we saw the evidence in the ground, ... But - clearly - they were living on the edge. No wonder there were so many deaths.
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There was a lot of activity here. And it wasn't just a settlement of rich gentlemen who were lazy and didn't work and didn't know how to exist in the wilderness.
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But there it is. You can see the foundations of the buildings he saw. And when he was writing in 1611, things at Jamestown looked pretty good.
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