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This answer did not satisfy the Council, and day by day there were parleyings in which the white men and the red men sought to constrain or evade each other. Each side recognized the value of Pocahontas as a hostage. She was not now unhappy.
For seven months the parleyings went on without any definite result being reached, and in August, 1619, the embassy returned.
He would be content to step into the shoes naturally vacated by his death. The final suggestion resulting from these parleyings was that an interview between the two principals would be far more satisfactory than any further interchange of messages. It was not only a propitious time for a conference, but it was necessary.
They haggled; they imposed impossible conditions; they drowned official parleyings in shouts and yells.
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