The Jamestown Experiment
“The story was very different in Virginia. Winter came on as usual there, and temperatures dropped. The hungry, emaciated colonists felt the cold even more than usual. The storehouses were virtually empty—by February 1610 there was no food to eat. The colonists felt the “sharp prick of hunger.” President George Percy thought that no man could truly describe the awful experience except “he which hath tasted the bitterness thereof.” He recorded the events, portraying the winter as a “world of mise...ries.”351 Entrepreneurship involved calculated risks, and losses sometimes occurred. These settlers though had not merely gambled their fortunes but also risked their lives on migrating to the New World. They were now about to lose everything.
The people were barely subsisting on meager rations that did not provide them with the nutrition or calories needed to sustain life. They were malnourished and slowly starving to death. The “eight ounces of meal and half a pint of peas for a day, the one and the other moldy, [was] rotten, full of cobwebs and maggots, loathsome to man, and not fit for beasts.”MoreLess
The people were barely subsisting on meager rations that did not provide them with the nutrition or calories needed to sustain life. They were malnourished and slowly starving to death. The “eight ounces of meal and half a pint of peas for a day, the one and the other moldy, [was] rotten, full of cobwebs and maggots, loathsome to man, and not fit for beasts.”MoreLess
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