leave our bones rotting on the shore before the winter is over, i say we better dwell together in unity. >> we whose names are under ridden, the loyal subjects of our southern lord king jamesving undertaken a voyage to plant a colony in the new world do solemnly combine ourselves together into a civil bodied politic for our better ordering and preservation. and by virtue, to enact such just and equal laws as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony. is this agreed by all present? >> i agree. >> i agree. >> what can i say of the painful labors of those first terrible months, to gain a foothold, however precarious in that treacherous land. to find a site for our colony. to fashion simple rude shelters and how to describe that cruel first winter when we were plunged into that wilderness all unknowing and ignorant, as savages, we saw fuel, and except for the first skirmish, in which our captain acquitted himself bravely, we suffered not from that source, but from another source, we suffered most grievously. [ coughing ] >> william, william, where are you? >> here at your side, my dear. >> william, we should not have come. we should not have