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An hour or so later she beheld in the distance two tall figures approaching, and she sprang ashore from the boat, crying: "Nautauquas! Catanaugh!" as her two brothers hurried to meet her. "Is it indeed our little Matoaka?" asked Nautauquas, "and unharmed and well?" He looked at her critically, as if seeking to discover some great change in her.
"Thou hast heard, Matoaka?" he answered, smiling bravely in spite of the pain, "and art come, as thou hast ever come to Jamestown, to bring aid and comfort." "I have herbs here for thy wound," she replied, taking them out of her pouch. "They will heal it speedily. They are great medicine." How could he help believe in their power, she had asked herself on her way that morning.
"I will send a runner to Werowocomoco with news to my brother," he called out to her as the boat was swung out into the river; "he will reach the village by land more quickly than by river. Farewell, Matoaka."
He ran swiftly and had reached a spot where he felt sure that he would find a flock of wild turkeys, when he saw Pocahontas ahead of him. She too was hurrying, bent evidently on some errand that absorbed her, for she did not stop to peer up at the birds or to pull the flowers as she was wont to do. "Matoaka," he called, "whither goest thou?"
We have no occasion to follow further the fortunes of the Virginia colony, except to relate the story of Pocahontas under her different names of Amonate, Matoaka, Mrs. Rolfe, and Lady Rebecca. Captain John Smith returned to England in the autumn of 1609, wounded in body and loaded with accusations of misconduct, concocted by his factious companions in Virginia.
She did not try to calculate the weeks and months that should go by before she was to see him again. She seated herself beside him on the ground and listened while he talked to her of all that he was leaving behind and his love and concern for the Colony. "See, Matoaka," he said, his voice growing stronger in his eagerness, "this town is like unto a child of mine own, so dear is it to me.
"Matoaka," he cried, stepping from the shadow; "what dost thou here alone at night?" His sister did not scream nor jump at this sudden interruption. She seized her brother's hand and pressed it gently. "It was such a beautiful night, Nautauquas," she replied, "that I could not lie sleeping in the lodge. I come often here."
"I remember, Matoaka; how could I forget it?" "Dost thou remember the day when, lying wounded before thy door, thou didst make me promise to be ever a friend to Jamestown and the English?" "I have thought of it many a day." "I have kept my promise, Father, have I not?" "Nobly, Matoaka; but it is not meet that thou shouldst call me father."
Even as Wansutis did adopt Claw-of-the-Eagle, so will I adopt this paleface into our tribe." Every one began to talk at once: "She desires a vain thing!" "She hath the right." "If he live how shall we be safe?" "Since first our forefathers dwelt in this land hath this been permitted to our women!" Powhatan spoke sternly: "Dost thou claim him in earnestness, Matoaka?" "Aye, my father. I claim him.
Then facing her, he cried: "Forgive us, Matoaka, and be not angry that we mistook thy kindness. See, we seat ourselves here upon the ground and we beseech thee that thou and thy maidens will continue thy songs and thy dancing, which will greatly divert us."
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