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According to the "General Historie" the company of Ratcliffe and Archer was a disorderly rabble, constantly tormenting the Indians, stealing their corn, robbing their gardens, beating them, and breaking into their houses and taking them prisoners.
But to omit them, and returne to the continuation of our owne historie.
In his "General Historie" a little different complexion is put upon this. On his return, Smith says, he suppressed an attempt to run away with the pinnace to England. He represents that what food "he carefully provided the rest carelessly spent," and there is probably much truth in his charges that the settlers were idle and improvident.
It is possible that her intercourse with the whites had raised her above such an alliance as would be offered her at the court of Werowocomoco. We are without any record of the life of Pocahontas for some years. The occasional mentions of her name in the "General Historie" are so evidently interpolated at a late date, that they do not aid us.
But finallie a league was concluded betwixt Arthur and the foresaid Loth king of Picts, vpon certeine conditions, as in the Scotish historie is expressed, where ye may read the same, with many other things touching the acts of Arthur, somewhat in other order than our writers haue recorded. Matt.
And in the hodge-podge compilation from himself and others, which he had put together shortly after, the "General Historie," he pathetically exclaims: "Now all these proofs and this relation, I now called New England's Trials.
This was a sore foughten battell, with much bloudshed on both parties. Malm. But the Scotish writers make other report of this matter, as in the historie of Scotland ye maie find recorded. I. Leland. Wil.
The town contained eighteen houses, and heaps of grain. Smith obtained fifteen bushels of it, and on his homeward way he met two canoes with Indians, whom he accompanied to their villages on the south side of the river, and got from them fifteen bushels more. This incident is expanded in the "General Historie."
In 1623 he issued a prospectus of his "General Historie," in which he said: "These observations are all I have for the expenses of a thousand pounds and the loss of eighteen years' time, besides all the travels, dangers, miseries and incumbrances for my countries good, I have endured gratis: ....this is composed in less than eighty sheets, besides the three maps, which will stand me near in a hundred pounds, which sum I cannot disburse: nor shall the stationers have the copy for nothing.
Whether the "abstract" in the "General Historie" is exactly like the original we have no means of knowing. We have no more confidence in Smith's memory than we have in his dates. The letter is as follows: "To the most high and vertuous Princesse Queene Anne of Great Brittaine. Most ADMIRED QUEENE.
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