body and soul together. There was a generous French lady, who befriended him in his need, and whose sympathy for him was only equalled by her respect. Her name was Madame Chanoyes, and she lived in Rochelle. She assisted him, as he confesses himself, "bountifully."

As soon as he could he set off again for Plymouth. He went through a great deal of dispute and contention there with the men who had first sailed with him, and sought to procure their punishment for the desertion of which they were guilty. But he accomplished little or nothing by his endeavor. There seemed really to be no power to mete out punishment as it was deserved.

By this time the value of the cod-fisheries along the New England coast began to be understood. Captain Smith had led the way, and made the earliest venture; others were now crowding forward to avail themselves of the riches of his experience. Multitudes of vessels were got ready in great haste, and the returns from the ventures immediately became enormous. Smith tried to obtain assistance in making another trial himself. But to no purpose at all. He, the orig

inal author of others' fortunes, was left poor and unnoticed; while those others, who timidly followed after his lead, had not the manliness or the sense of justice either to confess their obligations to him, or admit him to a share of the profits to which his finger alone had pointed them.

Unable to effect anything in the direction he wished, he sat down again with his pen, ink, and paper. At once he produced a book entitled "New England's Trial." It was little more than a record of his own rough and changeful experiences. The book was published in the year 1616, and he determined that it should have the benefit of a wide circulation. Accordingly, he set out with it himself, taking a large number of copies along with him. He travelled all over England. It was not much like the style in which authors scatter their volumes in these days; but, still, it was a very resolute undertaking for a person living in the times of Captain Smith, when King James was the ruler of England, and but four or five years after the Bible was finally translated into English. He gave away thousands of copies to the merchants of