 The natives initially welcomed and provided crucial provisions and support for the colonists, who were not agriculturally inclined.Relations quickly soured, and the colonists would annihilate the Paspahegh in warfare within four years.Despite the dispatch of more settlers and supplies, including the 1608 arrival of eight Polish and German colonists and the first two European women, more than 80 percent of the colonists died in 1609–10, mostly from starvation and disease.