TEXT:It is called "The Starving Time".Having fed on horses and other animals.we ate boots,shoes and any other leather we came across.
Three months before Rolfe arrives,a man is burned at the stake for killing his pregnant wife and planning to eat her.The English arrive unprepared for this new world and unwilling to perform manual labor.Instead of livestock,they've brought chemical tests for gold that they never find.And this is not their land.They build Jamestownin the middle of a Native American empire.60 starving settlers among 20,000 of the Powhatan Nation,armed with bows and arrows that are up to nine times faster to reload and fire than an English musket.They're soon enemies.Only one in ten of the original setters if left.
John Rolfe didn't come up to plunder and leave like the others.
He's got his own plan.There's money in tobacco, and English is addicted.He's arrived with a supply of South American tobacco seeds,but growing it is limited to the Spanish colonies.
The Spanish control the worldwide trade.Selling tobacco seeds to foreigners is punishable by death.But John Rolf has got his hands on some.No one knows how.And in the warm,humid climate and fertile soil around the Chesapeake Bay,Rolfe's tobacco crop flourishes.The first large harvest produced by these seeds is worth more than a million dollars in today's money.The great strength of America is our people.If you wanna know what it is the defining strength of America,it is our people,our immigrant tradition,our bringing in culture from all over the world.I know what goes into making making success.And when somebody's really successful, it rarely luck.It's talent, it's brain power, it is lots of other things.Rolfe marries the daughter of the king of the Powhatan Empire.Her name become legend: Pocahontas.

译文:当时正是"饥荒时期"，在吃完了马和其它动物之后我们吃掉了靴子，鞋子和其它任何能找到的皮革。“谁来救救我啊！”。就在罗尔夫到达三个月前有人因杀害自己怀孕的妻子并企图吃尸体而被处以火刑。这些英国人毫无准备地来到了这个新世界，并且不愿从事体力劳动。他们带来的不是牲畜，而是检测黄金的化学试剂，但他们从未找到任何黄金，并且这里也不是他们的地盘。詹姆斯敦建在一个北美原住民部落领地中间，60名食不果腹的移民被2万个波瓦坦族人包围。这些原住民的弓箭要比需要重新装子弹的英国滑膛枪快9倍。双方很快就成了敌人。最初的移民中只有一成活了下来，约翰·罗尔夫没有像其他人一样劫掠之后扬长而去。他有自己的计划，烟草的利润很高并且在英国国内很有市场。他带来了一批南美烟草的种子，但当时只有西班牙殖民地出产这种作物，西班牙人因此控制了烟草国际贸易。在当时向外国人出售烟草种子会被处以死刑，但约翰·罗尔夫还是想办法弄到了一些，没人知道他是怎么做到的。在切萨皮克湾的暖湿气候和肥沃土地的滋养下，罗尔夫的烟草长势喜人，这些烟草种子带来的首次大丰收，即使放在今天价值也超过一百万美元。科林·L·鲍威尔将军[前美国国务卿]：“美国前进的伟大动力就是我们的人民，如果你想知道如何定义美国前进的动力，答案就是我们的人民，我们的移民传统，我们兼容并蓄的文化，我知道成功是怎么回事，真正的成功，很少是运气的因素，而是天分、智力还有许多其它的因素”。罗尔夫娶了波瓦坦部落联盟首领的女儿，她的名字已成为传奇——波卡洪塔斯。