[Black Agnes]

I thought it was pretty scary too.

Imagine you’re a farmer with a plantation of some sort of tropical trees. Penury till the new ones grow into fruiting.

[Jamestown1630]

I hadn’t even thought of agriculture there, and you caused me to look it up; lots of small farmers:

http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/The-New-American-Farmer-2nd-Edition/Text-Version/Southern-Region/Lucien-Samuel-and-Benita-Martin-St.-Thomas-USVI