And Reverend William Simmonds states in regard to this same starving
time of the winter of 1609-10:
as for our hogs, hens, goats, sheepe, horse, or what lived; our
commanders and officers did daily consume them: some small
proportions (sometimes) we tasted, till all was devoured.
Thus after three years they had nothing of a material nature to show
for their efforts. Their most valuable achievement had been their
acquired knowledge of the Indians' methods of farming. To make a bad
situation worse the Indians began to make trouble. Lord De La Warr
speaks of their "late injuries and murthering of our men." It was not
until 1611 that real farming got under way at Jamestown. Then corn
planting and fence building began in earnest.