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 Sir Thomas Gates and his men, on a supply ship to Jamestown, 
become shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda following a storm 
just as John Smith was leaving Jamestown. During this period 
between Smith's departure and Gates' arrival, the colonists begin 
to starve. With no law or order to keep them at bay, the colo
nists entered a period of chaos and disobedience. First, a few of 
the colonists took the corn that had been obtained by trading 
with the Native Americans and convinced a number of the colonists 
to become pirates. Stealing the ship, they set off, leaving the 
colonists that were left behind to, expecting their glorious 
return, not search for food with much vigor. Unsurprisingly, they 
returned empty-handed, and confessed that they had left three 
months' food and all the cattle lying in the fort. Some of the 
other men had entered into a conflict with the Native Americans 
by committing some violence, which prevented trade.


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 After this had happened, the men, being lazy, only caught 
enough food for themselves, not even thinking about stockpiling 
for the winter, when fish are not plentiful in the rivers. They 
even let all fourteen of their fishing nets spoil and rot, when 
they could have preserved them by drying and mending. After this, 
fish was no longer able to be caught, and the number of people in 
the colony began declining. The Native Americans began taking 
revenge upon the violence that the men had committed; they lured 
about thirty men to trade and then killed them all, they cut away 
their boats to drift away to the sea, they chased the deer in the 
colonists' area to a different part of the land, they killed 
almost six hundred hogs, and began to lay ambushes for the colo
nists in the forest. In summary, after the leader of the colony 
left and a new one did not arrive with supplies, chaos ensued 
which eventually led to serious damage to Jamestown.