<P> Despite the immediate area of Jamestown being uninhabited , the settlers were attacked less than two weeks after their arrival on May 14 , by Paspahegh Indians who succeeded in killing one of the settlers and wounding eleven more . Within a month , James Fort covered an acre on Jamestown Island . By June 15 , the settlers finished building the triangular James Fort . The wooden palisaded walls formed a triangle around a storehouse , church , and a number of houses . A week later , Newport sailed back for London on Susan Constant with a load of pyrite ( `` fools ' gold '' ) and other supposedly precious minerals , leaving behind 104 colonists and Discovery . </P>
who lived in jamestown before the arrival of the english
uninhabited