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The Company, not content with the “hundred dissolute persons” supplied by the king’s order, entreated for more, until Captain John Smith, the hero of Virginia, was moved to express his disgust.
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Sumner recounts Captain John Smith's disgust at the Virginia Company's recruitment of disreputable individuals.
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