Death At Jamestown - Narrator: Liev Schreiber - 17th Century Jamestown's Dead Secrets
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Death at Jamestown takes a 21st-century look at the eerie fate of the men and boys who left London to establish the first permanent British colony in North America: Jamestown, Virginia. Three years after they first set foot on American shores, 440 of the original 500 settlers had died. Supply ships arrived from England carrying new colonists and fresh vigor, yet the mortality rate continued to soar. Death came in sudden, brutal waves, from a mysterious ailment that wreaked severe bruising, weakness, wasting, and madness on its victims before killing them altogether. While famine, internal strife, polluted water, and Indian attacks might certainly explain some of the fatalities, the death rate was still higher than it should have been under the circumstances. When the body of an original colonist turns up in the excavation of the Jamestown fort, archeologists and forensic experts find a clue that points to murder. Is it a coincidence that deadly outbreaks seemed to strike just after the supply ships headed home? Is it a coincidence, too, that the only map of the colony today belongs to Spain? And what could a fanatical Catholic have to do with the deaths? SECRETS OF THE DEAD: “Death at Jamestown” paints an eerie new picture of the conditions in Jamestown, and implicates some very unlikely culprits.
As they set sail from London to the distant shores of America in December 1606, the men and boys onboard the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery surely expected the best from their adventure. They’d establish a British settlement, find gold and silver, a passage to the Orient, and, perhaps, the lost colony of Roanoke. The explorers, funded by a group of London entrepreneurs called the Virginia Company, could not have anticipated the fate that actually awaited most of them: drought, hunger, illness, and death.
Their journey started off as badly as it ended. The three ships were stranded for weeks off the British coast, and food supplies dwindled. Over the course of the voyage, dozens died. But 104 colonists - many gentlemen of privilege, but also artisans, craftsmen, and laborers - survived to reach the shores of Virginia. On May 13, 1607, they decided to make landfall on the swampy ground of what was then a peninsula (and now an island) along the James River, some 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Within a month the settlers had constructed a triangle-shaped wooden fort, for protection against the Spanish, who did not want the British to establish any kind of foothold in the New World.
The settlers of the new colony - named Jamestown - were immediately besieged by attacks from Algonquian natives, rampant disease, and internal political strife. In their first winter, more than half of the colonists perished from famine and illness. Eventually, more colonists and new supplies were brought from Britain, and, despite a fire that wiped out the original fort, the settlement found some stability under the leadership of Captain John Smith. Smith, with the help of Pocohontas, daughter of the Algonquian chief Powhatan, managed to broker an uneasy peace with the natives before leaving the colony and returning to England in September 1609.
The following winter, disaster once again struck Jamestown. Only 60 of 500 colonists survived the period, now known as “the starving time.” Historians have never determined exactly why so many perished, although disease, famine (spurred by the worst drought in 800 years, as climate records indicate), and Indian attacks took their toll. On June 7, 1610, Jamestown’s residents abandoned the hapless town, but the next day their ships were met by a convoy led by the new governor of Virginia, Thomas West, Lord De La Ware, who ordered the settlers back to the colony.
In 1612, John Rolfe - who would later marry Pocohontas - began to grow tobacco, finally giving the colony a cash crop and hope for survival. The first representative government in the New World was convened in Jamestown in July 1619, the same year that African slaves - then indentured servants - were first brought to America. Jamestown was the capital of Virginia until 1698, when its statehouse burned down. The following year, the capital moved to Williamsburg, and Jamestown began its slow decay
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I had no idea that Liev has such a great voice for narration. Good work Sir.
@jaybirdjaybird9410
3 жыл бұрын
His work with HBO Boxing is excellent.
Spend any time in that region during warm weather and you can imagine the plague of insects that must have infested it.
@foundbychance7777
3 жыл бұрын
Are ancestor died because he starved he said: a gentleman should not eat a corpse or rats. And then he starved.
Liex Schreiber has an AMAZING voice. And he's a CRIMINALLY underrated actor, as well. It's actually kinda difficult to imagine this is the same guy who played Wolverine's brother in "X-Men Origins; Wolverine." Sabretooth, I believe it was. He should appear in more films, and narrate absolutely everything lol or at least as much as humanly possible, anyway. 👍
@melisamcdonnell4387
3 жыл бұрын
I will listen to him narrate anything, anything!! 3 mile island documentary most recent find. Seriously, his voice is perfection.
@twstf8905
3 жыл бұрын
I'll have to look that up lol "@@gobshite5150." 🤣 I love that show, I just haven't seen it in probably a few years now. (Jeezus, I'm getting old!)
@newyardleysinclair9960
7 ай бұрын
I don't think that Liev Schreiber actually
@NettiGaming
5 ай бұрын
❤ 100%
Amazing how one person in today’s world fulfilling his own personal dream to find out in more detail then to study for 30 Years and return to “Jamestown” and rewrites an amazing yet important part of history! Thanks for sharing👍
My ancestors arrived at Jamestown in 1627. Wm Stone (7 times great grandfather) was the 3rd Colonial Governor of Maryland. My 5 times great Uncle, Thomas Stone, signed the Declaration of Independence.
@sumnerwaite6390
3 жыл бұрын
So cool!
@mymonanfarms1081
3 жыл бұрын
How awesome!! Do you know if any artifacts in your family have been passed down?
@jojodiver8706
3 жыл бұрын
My ancestors, Dr John Woodson and his wife Sarah, arrived there in 1619. But he was killed by the Powhatans, leaving behind his wife and two sons.
@twstf8905
3 жыл бұрын
That's pretty awesome! 👍 I'm somehow loosely related, WAY back, to the first Royal family of Sweden. (According to my family's recent extensive genealogy investigations.) But, to have such direct ties to American historical figures is something else entirely.
@david9783
3 жыл бұрын
MY great grandfather fell at Jamestown....he tripped over a monument they have up there.
If they used arsenic as rat poison and they were forced to eat rats, could that have accounted for some of the deaths?
@SteveDodsonatDodsonOrchards
2 жыл бұрын
But they were eating rat because they weren’t able to fish and hunt I mean food is plentiful in these areas. But you have to be healthy to catch it and grow it
Wow... from Cornwall, kind of makes me feel sad that one of my fellow Cornishmen died so young in such a far away place.
Neither the Pilgrims or the Jamestown colonists were 'British', they were English. They claimed the land for England. The United Kingdom did not exist until 1707,and even then the term 'British' was rarely used until the 19th century.
@robertbrawley5048
3 жыл бұрын
I didnt know that. Thanks for the tip
@mikesaunders4775
3 жыл бұрын
@Days Kay Me too, it is effectively illegal to say you are English these days.
@robertbrawley5048
3 жыл бұрын
@Days Kay well I cant help you . Wether you are British or English you will have to conform to the British moniker. The deep state demands it
@chriswilliams2652
3 жыл бұрын
So what's the deal with that? Is it politically correct to say British? I know how the PC culture brow beats those who disagree. We have alot of that crap here in "the colonies". That's interesting though, I usually refer to Y'all as " The English " myself.
@mikesaunders4775
3 жыл бұрын
@@chriswilliams2652 The term 'English' is virtually banned by the BBC and most of the media,and people are encouraged to view themselves as British. No such rule applies to the Scots or the Welsh, the latter being the most entitled to the epithet.
This is fascinating! Thank you for sharing it!
Thanks for sharing this!
I’m from Virginia and when I was young we learned more about Jamestown than we did the pilgrims. It was the first one and it’s crazy the northern states don’t talk about it more often.
@reefsroost696
Жыл бұрын
History is written by the victor.
@richardstever3242
7 ай бұрын
Facts are the enemy to a political narration.
Like so very many dreamers, I was enchanted by archaeology as a child. Exposure to sites like Pompeii (we were invited behind the scenes in areas not open to the public yet, so I got to see the blood, sweat and tears that is archaeology. Then as an undergrad I was hired as a general labourer on the Jemseg Crossing Archaeological Project. The task was salvage archaeology; a new highway being built exposed a Native site (Maliseet, if I recall correctly). The site had been occupied by Natives and colonists for thousand years (approx 6,000 to 12000 years. At the time the dig was begun the site had been plowed and tilled for almost 2 centuries, obfuscating many of the discoveries until we moved into deeper pits. I will never forget the day I was screening and a clear quartzite thumbnail scraper appeared from the soil in my sieve. I was quite likely the first human to lay my hands on that artifact in thousands of years. The moment was surreal, beyond my wildest reaction to the artifacts and features I had witnessed as an observer in the sites I visited in my childhood! We had mostly found European trade goods like fragments of clay pipes and broken pottery. That Saturday afternoon is frozen in my mind even 24 years later. The site was located at the confluence of the Jemseg and Saint John Rivers in New Brunswick, Canada, and I believe it was the first time a dig was undertaken in winter below the Arctic Circle, so it was extraordinary from every consideration. I couldn't begin to understand how I would react to anything I encountered at a dig like Jamestown. My mind would have been blown, no doubt!
I read the video description, and was thinking of the guy from the Wire, Pablo Schreiber, and couldn't believe it was him in the voiceover...thankfully I re-read the description before commenting. Thank you for sharing the video!
My 10th great grandfather, John Chandler arrived at the age of 9 in 1610. He arrived with Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr. He lived until the 1658.
Archeology is an amazing history teller. I very much enjoy reading and learning from the evidence discovered.
Stuff like this is always welcome thanks
@foundbychance7777
3 жыл бұрын
I agree
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Astonishing documentary, thanks for uploaded it. Greetings from Cali, Colombia
My 12th Paternal GGF was the Reverend Robert Hunt who was among this group of Jamestown settlers. Rev. Robert Hunt Memorial Shrine at Jamestown:
So, just a thought...they had Rats-bane on their ships to get rid of rats? What are the chances that those rats they ate from starvation weren't contaminated from the Rats-bane already? That, right there, is a fairly good possibility of how the settlers could have been poisoned. It didn't have to be a political plot for a Hercule Poirot novel.
I miss the old documentaries that were to the point facts instead of the dramatized soap operas of today’s documentaries!
@celieboo
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. Everything is set in the reality TV format these days..
@alexhatfield4448
3 жыл бұрын
Then youtube is the place for you now.
@gravedigr12
3 жыл бұрын
most modern ones are just dramatic music and terrible re enactments
@janellephoenix4378
3 жыл бұрын
A historical documentary without “ancient aliens”! Lol
Leiv and Joe Morton are interchangeable when it comes to narrating -- my two favorites.
Thanks Diamond. Something to think about. Good weekend to ya All good people of planet Earth. Love from Denmark
@OppenheimerRanchProject
6 жыл бұрын
We love you Henrik!
I just this week found out that I am long related to John Thomas Clay V who was born in Monmouth England 1587. He arrived at Jamestowne Virginia via a ship named Treasurer in February 1613 and settled in a place named Charles City County. He is listed as an "Ancient Planter". There are several logs and information that I've yet to go through and also am having trouble reading the documents. He was a Clay who who I'm related to on my father's mother's side. Not sure yet what I'd call his relation (eg: great great etc uncle etc) but as said I just found this information out about 5 days ago so I hope to learn even more when I have time. So very interesting and wondering when the Clay's ended up in north Florida and south Georgia where they still currently live,myself included. I've always been into history and it's so fascinating to see when and where your family tree starts. I couldn't afford using the ancestry sites and I'd heard the Mormons are notorious archivists. They have so much information to trace your lineage and it's free! So far no Mormons have come knocking at my door since setting up an account with the LDS genealogy site. If anyone here comes across this and is also related to this man please comment ! Here's a basic synopsis of his info... "John Clay (or Claye) is said to have been born about 1587/88 in Monmouth, Wales or England. Also said is that he died Apr. 7, 1655 - 60 in Charles City, Virginia. He was known (by later researchers) as Captain John Clay,"
@TheJimmyLew
2 жыл бұрын
Monmouth is in Wales I think
I love your video. I love the James town story. And we are related to James the first. Nice day!
Fascinating. Thank You!
We learned as much about Jamestown as we did about that town founded in 1565. Ya know. St Augustine. Which was before Jamestown.
40 miles might as well be a million if you're starving
@jimjones4053
3 жыл бұрын
They were in boats.
That was pretty cool. I had no idea. Thanks!
💖 Love your presentation!
Being raised in Alexandria, Virginia, I learned the story of Jamestown in elementary school in about 2nd or 3rd grade. 1st grade focused on the alphabet, arithmetic, and drawing pictures with monstrous crayons. ☺
@billharpster7968
3 жыл бұрын
From Pennsylvania. We where taught this. I’m 62.
@robertbrawley5048
3 жыл бұрын
Just a passing mention in the 8th grade state history in Virginia in 1965 but I did retain 1619 as a date when slave trade , house of Burgesses was established. School is reading writing an Arithmetic and the rest you can learn on your own
@jeffreyrobinson3555
3 жыл бұрын
Dana Westwolf didn’t you say that same thing on another post.
@dennismoore9602
3 жыл бұрын
@@billharpster7968 IM 62 ALLSO, LEARNED THE SAME THING IN VA. HISTORY. 4TH GRADE.
Much enjoyed. Remember a documentary many years ago similar to this. I think they discovered that a mold in the wheat was causing LSD type effects. I believe it was a documentary on Salem around the time of the Witch trials. Thanks again for taking your time to share.
@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164
3 жыл бұрын
@Dana Westwolf Anything of real value to add besides your repetitive nonsense?
@robertbrawley5048
3 жыл бұрын
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 yea I curious why he didnt finish his repeative nonsense
@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164
3 жыл бұрын
@@robertbrawley5048 SHE copied and pasted her same comment on just about everyone's comment. There's the "repetitive" part. The nonsense part comes out of the Pocahontas claims, which have NOTHING to do with the video.
@robertbrawley5048
3 жыл бұрын
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 yes it her type of comment that motivate providers to cut the comment section off
@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164
3 жыл бұрын
@Sue Taft It's not just Al Gore, it's all of the "Climate Crusaders" who've caused so many problems.
When they came to america , we lost new Amsterdam . And new york was Born And in that time If I Follow you good there was much weather influences on the world becaise of Solar influence My family tracveled to in that time , generrstion on generatiin is told About the weather in that time Thanks So much for making puzzels complete 👊🏼 Keep up the good work ☃️🙆🏼♂️👌🏼
And then the pilgrims showed up 14 years later farther north and uttered the first "cold 'nuff for ya?"
@jonathansparks7558
3 жыл бұрын
ROFLMAO 🤣
@davidbrogan606
3 жыл бұрын
@Sue Taft That was the grace of God and the pilgrims understood that.
@carolperry4231
3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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@carolperry4231
3 жыл бұрын
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The town where I come from in Maine was settled in 1604. Jamestown was the first English speaking colony. French fur traders first settled in the St. Croix valley in 1595.
@lisalapoint7022
3 жыл бұрын
St Augustine founded in 1565. So, yeah, lots of history shoved aside to make room for those pilgrams!
Some flaws in the poisoning theory: 1. Why did the poisoner not simply contaminate food and water enough to kill off all of the Protestants in Jamestown? 2. If Jamestown had been destroyed, what would have kept any outlying settlements from becoming the first successful English colony in America? 3. How did rat poison go missing without anybody noticing?
Most interesting and a new spin on what happened. I’ve never heard the poisoning aspect of Jamestown. In fact we’ll never know for sure what happened.
@davidbrogan606
3 жыл бұрын
When we get to the other side we will know.
Could arsenic have occurred naturally in the water, soil, food storage techniques, or clothing? In Victorian times, people accidentally died because of the arsenic in patent medicines, wallpaper, dyes, and clothing? Could the Jamestown settlers have been accidentally poisoned in a similar fashion? Another question: Was any analysis conducted on the rate of death among the "gentlemen" as compared to the rate of death among "laborers"?
Excellent!
St. Augustin in Florida 1565
very educational a very well explained video
It may also account for all of the early deaths at Plymouth, too. I have ancestors at both Jamestown and Plymouth.
Interesting film, definitely. Nice day!!
I was taught about Jamestown when I was in school. I graduated high school in ‘73 - Texas. I learned more about it in college.
@carlossierra4583
3 жыл бұрын
Fair enough
@robertbrawley5048
3 жыл бұрын
I was taught about Jamestown in the 8th grade in Virginia and if there was more than a paragraph that I had to memorize to pass a test I would be surprised that would of been in 1965 I got my education on Jamestown much latter in 2012 reading Bishop William Meade's book Churches and Families of Va. And there he writes of where the location was. Of Jamestown . There he and Antiquarian Randolph and a previous owner of the land identified its location as it was a peninsula but by Bishop Mead's time had become an island because the river . I think the York river had sweeped over the inland side if the peninsula. That book was publish in the 1850s but they may have explored the area in the 1840s
@HollyMoore-wo2mh
3 жыл бұрын
@@robertbrawley5048 I remember hearing that bit myself - about the peninsula part.
@caroldixon7796
3 жыл бұрын
Yes I graduated high school in 77 and I went to 6 years of college. My point being that I had always heard about Jamestown
The oldest continually settled English town in America is Plymouth, MA.
@davidbrogan606
3 жыл бұрын
@Back Woods Brady #CrickMafya Continually settled, as in not abandoned.
I never realized the counselor from Intervention was also an archeologist.
Can you imagine being the indigenous people chilling at the outskirts of Jamestown watching all these people go nuts on each other..😶
Thank you
Fawkes did not try to blow up the British Parliament. It was the English Parliament since England/Wales was not politically joined with Scotland until the 18th century.
@mikesaunders4775
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I got so fed up with the narrator referring to the 'British', that I was compelled to give an otherwise interesting film a big thumbs down.
Love Liev's narration.
I'm 70 now, and I was taught this history half a century back rather incorrectly I am learning.
@honeybee1159
3 жыл бұрын
I’m also 70 and are all learning about Jamestown, not to this detail, however.
Thank you 💎 😘
Dying from the gun in the USA. That culture hasn’t changed
@mar11b
3 жыл бұрын
@devildog1982z touched a nerve?! Yes, interesting.
Liev could read me the phone book
@tonyathomas9540
3 жыл бұрын
It doesn’t sound like him to me, it says it’s him but he doesn’t sound like Ray Donovan lol
@christymccullough7306
3 жыл бұрын
@@tonyathomas9540 he's really young but I think it's him
@honeybee1159
3 жыл бұрын
@@tonyathomas9540 Schreiber is a respected classical actor. I think he was robbed when he was nominated but did not win a Golden Globe or Emmy for his role as Ray Donovan.
My 10th great grandparents are buried in the churchyard there.
A most excellent documentary 😷✌️
one of my favourite actor Liev Schreiber.... But he is a great narrator also
Actually, Fort Caroline predates Jamestown by 45 years. But, no one has actually found where it was located.
It's fun to visit Jamestowne. It's been a while since I've been there so I can only imagine how much they have found at the archeological excavation site since I was last there in 2013
I didn't know Liev Schreiber does voice overs!
I'm in my early 60's, grew up and went to school in upstate NY...and we were taught about Jamestown and Plymouth...
I remember we covered Jamestown extensively. Utterly unprepared people very disillusioned
Thank you very mych.
We studied Jamestown in the high School in Massachusetts back in the '80s. I'm surprised they're saying it was erased by Northern historians. We've all heard of Captain John Smith, haven't we? Seems like a statement designed to cause trouble.
@Melissab704
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I’m in norther and we were taught all about Jamestown. Everyone knows about John Smith and the myth of his relationship with Pocahantes who was 12 at the time. If there was a conspiracy to undermine or wipe out the history of Jamestown, it didn’t work. It became a Disney movie.
@joebombero1
3 жыл бұрын
I never knew about it until I was an adult. I was raised in public schools in Kansas City in the 1970s and 80s.
@samdancer101
3 жыл бұрын
Its more that the reality of the Starving Time and the reality of Jamestown almost being a failure was hidden. Am from NY, learned about Jamestown but only learned the truth through family trips and a summer history thing at William and Mary. Even back in the 1600s, people tried to erase the truth of starvation and cannibalism during the second Starving Time. Disney made it out that everything was great and everyone ended up getting along.
I could listen to Liev Schreiber read a phonebook.
@VintageJunker
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly, isn't he the best?!!
@oliverlawrencedesilva.1989
3 жыл бұрын
Play more cowboys show
@oliverlawrencedesilva.1989
3 жыл бұрын
Super keep up
@jimjones4053
3 жыл бұрын
It's a very hypnotic tone.
Eventually, the Virginia Colonists did strike gold. The Golden Leaf. Tobacco.
Always realize that if you are different than "those", they will never treat you any better than they treat their own. AmerIndians found that out in spades. "Material Progress at any price..." the internal mantra of Jamestown Colonizers. Still at the heart and core of US Society and Culture.
Fun to watch, thanks for posting this. They found things at the site, but didn't really prove much to me. Also this wasn't really the maunder minimum yet, though they did talk some about bad weather. It looked more like poor hygiene and possible sabotage.
3 жыл бұрын
Pherd Linn Don’t speak with authority about things you have no expertise in.
When I heard that JR was from Kernow, I felt so sad that one of our Cornish ancestors, died in such a horrific way and so far from Kernow!
Seems my ancestor arrived with John Smith and became a translator and married a daughter of some chief up the river a ways. He was one of the few survivors of the first boat load. John Dod who had a son = Dodson.
Is a GREAT vid, and man they never really know the truth, but lots of outside factors too, and they were not prepared for the new world and the change in climate.
@billythekid3234
3 жыл бұрын
@Dana Westwolf TO WHAT,GO ON PLEASE,,,,,,,
@tovaritchboy
3 жыл бұрын
Sue Taft I don’t believe in the “climate “ change that is being pushed by the main stream narrative. I do believe in climate in constant flux and shifting back and forth all on its own. ie volcanic activity sun flares etc. As for being prepared for hardship that’s how they lived normally. Mismanagement on the other hand was huge. And selection of a poor site also factors in things going wrong at first.
@45:28 - There is a county in Maryland named after the Arundels - also, the Catholics who settled Maryland set up their colony at St. Mary's, which is up the Chesapeake Bay, less than 100 miles from Jamestown by water. Quite the coincidence.
This seems to show that solar minimums are more benevolent then politics. Good point to keep in mind during survival scenarios.
@michaelmongeon9737
6 жыл бұрын
TheManny1952 don't back down. Never quite. Shut your mouth and open your eyes make your own destiny and thrive. That's my plan.
@TheManny1952
6 жыл бұрын
So true so true. Even in my dreams I chase my devil's till they run away.
@vashon100
3 жыл бұрын
Than vs then
If the settlers had problems with finding adequate food, could they have suffered from scurvy? It seems strange that the settlers starved in an environment that could provide fish, oysters, wild berries, etc. Also, men with military training usually know how to set up latrines that do not pollute the water supply? Dysentery and typhoid are diseases that can be traced to contaminated water. Is it possible the colonists had so little experience in setting up camp?
I think this was based on the Nat.Geo article i have..this elaborates on the most recent dig..
Never realized Liev was this Narrator. I always picture him as Sabertooth
@optimisticzebra8498
3 жыл бұрын
I was shocked when I found out too. I had always imagined an old man....and then DAMN! I'ts Ray Donavan!😍😍
@1aikane
3 жыл бұрын
Doesn't sound like him to me
@elsiemarina2572
3 жыл бұрын
@@1aikane That is exactly what I was thinking..Maybe there is another Liev Schreiber or it's his dad?
Imagine being at sea for 5 months.
@clebfelm4170
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine being in the us navy and being at sea for 8 months +
@clebfelm4170
3 жыл бұрын
Pussy
@kentmalone8539
3 жыл бұрын
On a modern ship! Wowy🤣
@williamsanders5066
3 жыл бұрын
Spent 175 of 189 deployment at sea in 2002 on USS Wasp LHD 1
@ih82r8
3 жыл бұрын
Being at sea for 5 months with no toilets and showers...lice and who knows what else. The smell of history must be vomit inducing.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
Cool video
Not an archeologist, ICU nurse who has seen people with both hypo- and hypernatremia. If their only water was salty, during periods where they were not working physically, the salt could build up in their bodies, pulling fluid from brain cells and causing hallucinations and delusional thinking (see the stories from the survivors of the USS Indianapolis where people began drinking seawater and went insane). In times where they were physically working, the salt in their bloodstream would leech out in sweat; if they were trapped in the fort due to the Powhatan trying to drive out invaders, they might not have enough water and suffer hyponatremia, which can cause collapse. I have seen both as a nurse - crazy preacher told his church to go on a “water diet” and consume only water for a month. Well, of course, the people got hungrier and hungrier, and were chugging half a gallon of water at a pop. They literally washed all the salt out of their bodies, just about. We started getting in this huge group of folks and they were delusional, weak, unable to walk, kidneys going nuts, heart issues, diabetics going into coma...some of the sickest people I ever saw. When idiot then tried it again, he told them to drink salted water. That was worse. There may have been other issues as well, but I think their main issue was deranged electrolytes.
@TheVuduYuDu
3 жыл бұрын
"...crazy preacher told his church to go on a “water diet” and consume only water for a month" and then "...he told them to drink salted water."...shame that this really didn't surprise me or shock me the way it should have.
This theory makes a lot more sense than ergot poisoning at Salem, yet that story can't be gotten rid of and this one apparently hasn't caught on. :/
Heck..... Liev could read to us a Better homes and Gardens cookbook....
I met many persons in Nova Scotia Canada that where related to Jamestown and The Plymouth Colonies likely because of the good fishing .
so very good
I remember seeing part of this on PBS. It's very interesting. Every time, I watch one of these shows whether it's travels to America or those that went West, I always think about how weak most people have become. People of the past were strong & survivors. Now, take a look around!
@sbalman
2 жыл бұрын
Did you watch this?! These people were horrible for the most part.
@danielevans3932
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly, the weaker people died on the way to America or never made it board. It was standard practice that if you cannot stomach the harsh reality and overcome it, you just die!!!
@JB-uv4hm
2 жыл бұрын
Hey they were so ‘smart’ they died by scores because they didn’t have good water.
@MathewWoodard
Жыл бұрын
Past GOOD! Present, BAD!
I'm 66 years old and attended public schools in Illinois. I was taught about Jamestown, so I question the veracity of some of these "experts".
I love the history lesson! Can we please all learn from our past.
@HollyMoore-wo2mh
3 жыл бұрын
Dana Westwolf Not enough time in the day to tell how wrong that is.
@HollyMoore-wo2mh
3 жыл бұрын
Dana Westwolf 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Hands up ... I can’t breathe! Try again.
@vicmorrison8128
3 жыл бұрын
@Dana Westwolf pious
@jeffreyrobinson3555
3 жыл бұрын
Dana Westwolf that is so wrong on so many levels.
@mikebeesley3150
3 жыл бұрын
Nope,the libtards will not allow such things, don't ya know.
Makes the most sense
Religion, Power, and Greed is the Achilles Heel of Homo Sapiens
@vmm5163
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. And Psychopaths always rise to the top of any establishment, even your local Neighborhood Watch will have its founder ousted eventually. So who shot JR and why? JR (in this video) was either a psychopath who caused unrest and was shot, or another Psychopath shot him because he spoke up about some unfairness. Psychopaths by nature are risk takers and opportunitists, and there have got to have been some who made that voyage to James Town
@MrJerryk55
3 жыл бұрын
temporarysanity You are correct.
Trees will always tell the story
Has this video been shortened or edited? Where is the other video explaining canons being used from a colonial ship anchored off shore?
My ancestor(s) 10th Great Grandfather Arthur Jordan I, his two son's, Col. George Jordan and Arthur Jordan II, came to Jamestown in 1635, later setteling in Surry Virginia. Col. George Jordan, (see Four Mile Tree Plantation) 9th Great Uncle twice became Attorney General of the English Colony Virginia.
We're here!
We certainly studied Jamestown as the second English Colony. The first being the lost colony in what is now North Carolina. Indeed, the Pilgrims were aiming to settle further south....
Yikes! I thought Robert Catesby, not Guy Fawkes, was the ring leader of the Gun Powder Plot.
@mikesaunders4775
3 жыл бұрын
He was.
Im pretty sure the first colonies in our country were spanish, Florida. True, there were not the ultimate "Americans" but they were the first colonies.
If this is Ray Donovan's Liev Schreiber, then I'm shookth. Voice over wizard.
@methodmadness7508
4 жыл бұрын
odd0odium it’s not liev shreiber his voice is way deeper than that and has a different accent person who put that in the title has got it mixed up somehow
@imlen7202
3 жыл бұрын
I believe it is Liev Schreiber. He is a consummate professional. I enjoyed his perfect pronounciation.
@methodmadness7508
3 жыл бұрын
@devildog1982z wtf?why call me lazy what did i do to you?
Oooh I'm watch this before going to bed
also this element is found in small amounts in the pewter and copper cooking pots
you'd think they had enough sense to dig pits for toilets away from their source of water.