"George Percy, the journal keeper who would later prove to be a terribly inept governor in his own right, said that Smith, "fearing ... thatt the seamen and thatt factyoin mighte growe too stronge and be a meanes to depose him of his governmentt," bribed the mariners "by the way of feasteings Expense of mutche powder and other unnecessary Tryumphes That mutche was Spente to noe other purpose butt to Insinewate wth his Reconcyled enemyes and for his owne vayne glory for the wch we all after suffered."