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Now this Indian settlement into which the runner had come was the Pow-ha-tan village of Wero-woco-moco, and was the one in which the old chief Wa-bun-so-na-cook usually resided.
So valiant a warrior as this pale-faced cau-co-rouse was too important a personage to be used as a slave, and Wa-bun-so-na-cook, the chief, received him as an honored guest rather than as a prisoner, kept him in his own house for two days, and adopting him as his own son, promised him a large gift of land.
The braves, with your brother O-pe-chan-ca-nough, have taken the pale-face chief in the Chickahominy swamps and are bringing him to the council-house." "Great man" or "strong one," a title by which Wa-bun-so-na-cook, or Powhatan, was frequently addressed. "Wa," said the old chief, "it is well, we will be ready for him." At once Ra-bun-ta was surrounded and plied with questions.
This name was taken from the tribe that was at once the strongest and the most energetic one in this tribal union, and that had its fields and villages along the broad river known to the Indians as the Pow-ha-tan, and to us as the James. The principal chief of the Pow-ha-tans was Wa-bun-so-na-cook, called by the white men Pow-hatan.
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