Now all of us at Jamestown, beginning to feel that sharp prick of hunger, which no man (can) truly describe but he which hath tasted the bitterness thereof, a world of miseries ensued...
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A True Relation of the Proceedings... in Virginia (c. 1624); an account of the "Starving Time" (1609–1610). Reported in Conway Whittle Sams, The Conquest of Virginia: The Third Attempt, 1610–1624 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939), p. 103