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as Smith calls the fort, everybody who had money or goods made all he could by trade; soldiers, sailors, and savages were agreed to barter, and there was more care to maintain their damnable and private trade than to provide the things necessary for the colony. In a few weeks the whites had bartered away nearly all the axes, chisels, hoes, and picks, and what powder, shot, and pikeheads they could steal, in exchange for furs, baskets, young beasts and such like commodities. Though the supply of furs was scanty in Virginia, one master confessed he had got in one voyage by this private trade what he sold in England for thirty pounds.
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These are the Saint-seeming Worthies of Virginia, indignantly exclaims the President,
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But now they began to get weary of the country, their trade being prevented.
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The loss, scorn, and misery was the poor officers, gentlemen and careless governors, who were bought and sold.
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Map of Virginia,