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source: ivor noel hume, the virginia adventure. in 1609 francis west and thirty - six men sailed up the chesapeake bay to try to trade for corn with the patawomeke indians.... although still part of powhatans confederacy, the tribe had seen less of the english than had those closer at hand and with luck might be more friendly. and so it proved. though west was able to load his small ship with grain, the success involved \some harshe and cruel dealinge by cutting of towe two of the salvages heads and other extremetyes.\ the ship and her lifesaving cargo returned to jamestown.... no one doubted that this new supply of grain would help, but it would not be enough to last the winter. on the other hand, decided the ships crew, it was plenty to get them fatly home to england. so it was that francis west \by the perswasion or rather by the inforcement of his company hoysed up sails\ and headed out into the atlantic, leaving the colonists to the indians. source d is best described as a- a secondary source written by a scholar first - hand account of historical events a news article a government document created to report data

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El texto es una descripción de eventos históricos escrita por Ivor Noel Hume en su libro "The Virginia Adventure". No es un relato de primera mano, ya que Hume no fue testigo directo de los eventos. Tampoco es un artículo periodístico o un documento gubernamental. Es un trabajo de un autor que ha investigado y escrito sobre la historia, lo que lo convierte en una fuente secundaria escrita por un erudito.

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A. A secondary source written by a scholar