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.

譯文:當時正是"饑荒時期"，在吃完了馬和其它動物之后我們吃掉了靴子，鞋子和其它任何能找到的皮革。“誰來救救我啊！”。就在羅爾夫到達三個月前有人因殺害自己懷孕的妻子并企圖吃尸體而被處以火刑。這些英國人毫無準備地來到了這個新世界，并且不愿從事體力勞動。他們帶來的不是牲畜，而是檢測黃金的化學試劑，但他們從未找到任何黃金，并且這里也不是他們的地盤。詹姆斯敦建在一個北美原住民部落領地中間，60名食不果腹的移民被2萬個波瓦坦族人包圍。這些原住民的弓箭要比需要重新裝子彈的英國滑膛槍快9倍。雙方很快就成了敵人。最初的移民中只有一成活了下來，約翰·羅爾夫沒有像其他人一樣劫掠之后揚長而去。他有自己的計劃，煙草的利潤很高并且在英國國內很有市場。他帶來了一批南美煙草的種子，但當時只有西班牙殖民地出產這種作物，西班牙人因此控制了煙草國際貿易。在當時向外國人出售煙草種子會被處以死刑，但約翰·羅爾夫還是想辦法弄到了一些，沒人知道他是怎么做到的。在切薩皮克灣的暖濕氣候和肥沃土地的滋養下，羅爾夫的煙草長勢喜人，這些煙草種子帶來的首次大豐收，即使放在今天價值也超過一百萬美元。科林·L·鮑威爾將軍[前美國國務卿]：“美國前進的偉大動力就是我們的人民，如果你想知道如何定義美國前進的動力，答案就是我們的人民，我們的移民傳統，我們兼容并蓄的文化，我知道成功是怎么回事，真正的成功，很少是運氣的因素，而是天分、智力還有許多其它的因素”。羅爾夫娶了波瓦坦部落聯盟首領的女兒，她的名字已成為傳奇——波卡洪塔斯。