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Finally Opechanchanough strode out, and when Pocahontas had tried to tell him what she had seen his face grew stern. "It is as I feared," he said to another chief. "And so the word which came from the upper cape was true. It is a marvel that bodeth no good." He began to give orders hurriedly; the dugout was brought up to the landing, and he waved Pocahontas and her maidens in with scant ceremony.
They led him to a fire which was blazing not far off on firmer ground where sat a chief, who, he learned, was the werowance Opechanchanough. At a word of command from him, the guards moved aside and the huge warrior walked slowly around Smith, examining him from head to foot. There was a pause which, the Englishman knew, might be broken by an order to torture and kill him.
But Opechanchanough, on his way to Werowocomoco to tell The Powhatan of the victory he had won over his enemies, did not feel quite sure that he had slain all the war party against which he and his Pamunkey braves had gone forth.
Opechanchanough spoke to his brother, telling him of the watch and compass. Powhatan seized them eagerly, turned them over and over and held them to his ear, listening while Smith explained their use. "I would fain know of those strange reeds ye carry that bear death within them," commanded the werowance again. "By what magic are ye served?
Smith, smiling, held it towards him in his palm and then laid it against the chief's ear, saying in the Pamunkey tongue: "Listen." Opechanchanough jumped with astonishment and cried out: "A spirit! A spirit! He hath a spirit imprisoned!" Then one by one the captors crowded forward to look at the "turtle-of-metal-that-hath-a-spirit," and many were the exclamations of astonishment.
Not waiting even to investigate the white bundle of fur, the warriors, surrounded by their curious fellows, bore it to Opechanchanough, and laid it on the ground before him. He knelt and lifted up the cap of rabbit skin with flapping ears that hid the face, then cried out in angry astonishment: "Pocahontas! What meaneth this trick?"
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