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She would have soft skins ready for thy leggings, new mats for thee to sleep upon; she would point out all the stores of dried venison she had hung on her tent-pole while thou wert gone, and fresh sturgeon would she cook for thee and prepare walnut-milk for thy thirst." "'Tis a pretty picture thou drawest, Matoaka," he answered, yet he did not laugh at it.
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.
"Something great, Matoaka," he answered; "I know not whether a warrior such there have been a princess who shall hold many tribes in her hand, or a prophetess; but I am certain that the arrow of thy manitou shall bring down some fair game." "Ah!" she breathed deeply. "I thank thee for thy words, Nautauquas, my brother, and that thou hast not made sport of me."
"But what meant the songs and dances in the hut in the woods, Matoaka?" "That was the ceremony of adoption. Thou art now the son of Powhatan and my brother. Thou wert taken into our tribe, and those were the ancient rites of our people." "And the journey through the woods, didst thou fear for my safety then that thou didst follow all the way?" But Pocahontas did not answer.
"Pocahontas can run even better than she can shoot. Uncle, and the changing of a robe is the matter but of a moment." "What meaneth this, Matoaka?" asked Powhatan, making use of her special intimate name, which signified Little Snow Feather. He spoke in a low tone, but one so stern that Cleopatra shivered and rejoiced that she was not the culprit.
"It is wonderful, Matoaka, yet I pray thee test thy strange power not too far. I am glad though the poor beast got away. I like not to see them suffer. I shoot and kill for food and for skins, but I kill at once." They now climbed up the ravine again and started off in the direction of Werowocomoco. The night was already far advanced and Pocahontas was growing drowsier and drowsier.
They kept still, breathless, for a moment; then as all was still again, Claw-of-the-Eagle asked sadly, in a tone that mourned as wind through the pine trees: "Then thou wilt not come with me? I had built a lodge for thee, Matoaka, with a smoke hole wide enough to let in the whole moon thou lovest.
'Pocahontas loves Jamestown, I shall whisper to the river that it eat not too deep into the island's banks, and" here the half-playful tone changed into one of real earnestness "I who sit close to Powhatan's heart shall whisper every day in his ear: 'Harm not Jamestown, if thou lovest Matoaka." A look of great relief passed over the wounded man's face.
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.
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.
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