when newport sailed for england in april 1608 he took a cargo of pyrite,fool gold. he returned at the end of september with orders from the virginia company to take firmer control over the locals their plan was to crown wahunsunacock,hoping this would render him subservirnt to the english king jame i.they invited him to jamestown,but wahunnsunacock,still deeply suspicious of the colonists,had no intention of risking capture.john smith recorded waahunsunacock reply "if your king have sent me presents,i also am a king,and this is my land...your father is to come to me,not i to him,not yet to your fort,neither will i bite at such a bait."
if wahunsunacock would not "bite at such a bait," newport and smith would have to go to werowocomoco to undertake the coronation.the whole event appears to have been a comeplete fiasco,with the only thing coming out of it a resolve on the part of wahunsunacock that it was time to get rid of the coiony. he imposed a trade embargo. jamestown could no longertrade for supplies. wahunsunacock would starve them out.
when newport sailed for england in april 1608 he took a cargo of pyrite,fool gold. he returned at the end of september with orders from the virginia company to take firmer control over the locals their plan was to crown wahunsunacock,hoping this would render him subservirnt to the english king jame i.they invited him to jamestown,but wahunnsunacock,still deeply suspicious of the colonists,had no intention of risking capture.john smith recorded waahunsunacock reply "if your king have sent me presents,i also am a king,and this is my land...your father is to come to me,not i to him,not yet to your fort,neither will i bite at such a bait."
if wahunsunacock would not "bite at such a bait," newport and smith would have to go to werowocomoco to undertake the coronation.the whole event appears to have been a comeplete fiasco,with the only thing coming out of it a resolve on the part of wahunsunacock that it was time to get rid of the coiony. he imposed a trade embargo. jamestown could no longertrade for supplies. wahunsunacock would starve them out.
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