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Another omitted passage relates to the charge, to which reference is made in the "General Historie," that Smith proposed to marry Pocahontas: "Some propheticall spirit calculated he had the salvages in such subjection, he would have made himself a king by marrying Pocahuntas, Powhatan's daughter.
'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.
Smith awoke in time, seized his arms, and others coming to his rescue, they cleared the house. While enduring these perils, sad news was brought from Jamestown. Mr. The boat was overwhelmed in a storm, and sunk, no one knows how or where. The savages were the first to discover the bodies of the lost. Lodging overnight at Powhatan's, he saw great preparations for war, and found himself in peril.
So, when a chief of the Potomac Indians visited Powhatan, and asked the Dutchman and the boy to go to his country, they left Powhatan and went back with them. Powhatan sent messengers after them, who killed the Dutchman. Henry Spelman ran away into the woods. Powhatan's men followed him, but the Potomacs got hold of Powhatan's men, and held them back until Spelman could get away.
The young braves to whom Pocahontas had been entrusted kept wisely on the outskirts of the crowd. Then the little sombre figure at Powhatan's feet rose and stood with the firelight shining on her face and dark hair and asked in a gentle voice: "Didst thou want me, mine uncle?" "Pocahontas," exclaimed Opechanchanough, "how camest thou here ahead of us, and in that dark robe?"
The next morning betimes they came to the Fort, where Smith having used the salvages with what kindnesse he could, he shewed Rawhunt, Powhatan's trusty servant, two demiculverings and a millstone to carry Powhatan; they found them somewhat too heavie; but when they did see him discharge them, being loaded with stones, among the boughs of a great tree loaded with Isickles, the yce and branches came so tumbling downe, that the poore Salvages ran away halfe dead with feare.
At length Sir Thomas Dale, seeking to put an end to this, took Pocahontas, and with a hundred and fifty men sailed up the river to the Powhatan's chief town. As soon as the savages saw the white men they came down to the river's bank, jeering at them and insulting them, haughtily demanding why they had come. "We have brought the Powhatan's daughter," replied the Englishmen.
He could only reward her with a fervent kiss, upon which she fled. Smith, on his guard, compelled them to taste each dish, and then sent them back to Powhatan. All night the whites watched, but though the savages lurked about, no attack was made. Leaving the four Dutchmen to build Powhatan's house, and an Englishman to shoot game for him, Smith next evening departed for Pamaunky.
The Indians wanted a day to consult their King, after which they would fight, if nothing but blood would satisfy the whites. Two of Powhatan's sons who were present expressed a desire to see their sister, who had been taken on shore.
"We cannot show them to you," replied the wily Redmen, "for they have all run away in fear lest you should hang them. But the Powhatan's men are pursuing after them, and will doubtless bring them back." "Then where are the swords and guns which you have stolen from us?" demanded the Englishmen. "These you shall have to-morrow," replied the Redmen.
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