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Show Page 206 Flowerdieu, twelve at Merchant's Hope, twenty-one at Weyanoke, seventeen at the College Lands, and on and on. It was feared the death toll would go over three hundred, for a half dozen settlements were still unaccounted for. But 'twas plain no settlement yet had lost as many as Martin's Hundred. At our plantation seventy-eight had died or were missing. "We have lost six of our councillors," Captain Pierce went on. "Nathaniel Powell was one, along with his wife, who was with child. The savages cut off his head," the Captain muttered into his beard. "Samuel Maycock is dead. John Rolfe is missing and thought to have been murdered. "Oh fie on the savages!" the captain cried, his voice near breaking. "Given the word I would fall upon them with my bare hands to revenge my fallen comrades!" At length he calmed himself. "Have you seen to all your dead?" he asked Harwood then. "Nay, we have not been out of the fort since the day of the massacre, at which time we buried some. But some still lie within the burned-out houses and some are still unaccounted for, for we have not braved the forest to travel to their dwellings. I fear those who survived are all here and the rest have perished." The captain nodded. "Yet shall we go and see for ourselves," he said. "When that has been done, my orders are to gather what food we can find and withdraw with all survivors to |