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Updated: June 22, 2025
"My father," she cried, "dost thou remember the old days in Wingandacoa when thou earnest first to Werowocomoco and wert my prisoner?" "I remember well. Lady Rebecca," he said, leaning down to kiss her hand, "and I am ever thy most grateful debtor." "Call me not by that strange name. Matoaka am I for thee as always. Dost thou remember when I came at night through the forest to warn thee?"
He is dear to me because I know him and because I know him not. Thou surely hast not forgotten how Matoaka ever longed for what lay unknown beyond her." "Hath thy manitou spoken?" questioned Nautauquas again. "The God of the Christians is my god now," she answered. "So should it be," said Nautauquas, although Catanaugh scowled; "a woman must worship the spirits to which her brave prayeth.
"Wilt thou be their gaoler, Matoaka?" he asked; and she, suddenly comprehending his joke, laughed aloud. The men were given into her custody and on her return home Powhatan was much pleased with his daughter's embassy. In September of that year Smith at last was made in name, what he had long been in fact, the head of the colony. As President he could now carry out his plans with less opposition.
There has been recently found in the British Museum a print of a portrait of Pocahontas, with a legend round it in Latin, which is translated: "Matoaka, alias Rebecka, Daughter of Prince Powhatan, Emperor of Virginia; converted to Christianity, married Mr. Rolff; died on shipboard at Gravesend 1617."
When and where she took the name of Matoaka, which appears upon her London portrait, we are not told, nor when she was called Amonata, as Strachey says she was "at more ripe yeares." How she was occupied from the departure of Smith to her abduction, we can only guess.
The men had had their lesson, and Powhatan his warning, therefore clemency might be effectively dispensed. "Dost thou desire, Matoaka, that these men should be freed?" "Oh, yes, my Brother," she replied eagerly. "Thou knowest thyself how the trapped man or beast pines to escape. My heart is sad at the thought of any creature kept in durance."
Though Nautauquas, returning an hour later from a peaceful mission to a confederated tribe, made scarcely more noise than the beaver, Pocahontas awoke and raised her head and loosening the needles from her hair, sprang up. "Greetings, Matoaka!" called out her brother. "Thou wert as snugly hidden here as a deer."
Governor Dale kept steadily in view the conversion of the Indians to Christianity, and the success of John Rolfe with Matoaka inspired him with a desire to convert another daughter of Powhatan, of whose exquisite perfections he had heard. This visit Hamor relates with great naivete.
"Why should anyone make sport of thee? It is not strange that the aspen should quiver when the wind blows, nor that thou shouldst be swayed by the spirit that is within thee, Matoaka. Some day " He was interrupted by a piercing scream from the depth of the forest.
"I have none, Matoaka; my trails have led through so many dangers that I have not taken a squaw." "But a squaw would not fear danger if thou couldst take her with thee, or if not, she would wait in thy lodge ready to welcome thee on thy return.
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