There could be no doubt but that Captain Kendall and Captain Martin both
believed that when the will of the London Company was made known, it
would be found they stood in high command; but there was in my heart
a great hope that my master might have been named. Yet when I put the
matter to him in so many words, he treated the matter lightly, saying it
could hardly be, else they had not dared to treat him thus shamefully.
However, it was soon to be known, if the commands of the London Company
were obeyed, for now we had come to this new land of Virginia, and the
time was near at hand when would be opened the box containing the names
of those who were to be officers in the town we hoped soon to build.
As for myself, I was so excited it seemed impossible to remain quiet
many seconds in one place, and I fear that my duties, which consisted
only in waiting upon the prisoner, my master, were sadly neglected
because of the anxiety in my mind to know who the merchants in London
had named as rulers of the settlement about to be made in the new world.
One would have believed from Captain Smith's manner that he had no
concern whatsoever as to the result of all this wickedness and scheming,
for it was neither more nor less than such, as I looked at the matter,
on the part of Captain Kendall and Captain Martin.
Here we were in sight of the new world, at a place where we were to live
all the remainder of our lives, and he a prisoner in chains; but yet
never a word of complaint came from his lips.