[Sings.] Och! Hubbaboo—Gramachree—Hone!
[Exeunt.
Scene III. Werocomoco, the royal village of Powhatan. Indian Girls arranging ornaments for a bridal dress. Music.
Nima. Let us make haste, my companions, to finish the dress of the bride; to-day the prince Miami returns with our hunters from the chase; to-morrow he will bear away our princess to his own nation.
Enter Pocahontas from the wood, with bow and arrow, and a flamingo (red bird). Music as she enters.
Princess. See, Nima, a flamingo.
Indian Girls crowd around, and admire the bird.
Princess. O Nima! I will use my bow no longer; I go out to the wood, and my heart is light; but while my arrow flies, I sorrow; and when the bird drops through the branches, tears come into mine eyes. I will no longer use my bow.
Distant hunting-horn. Music. They place themselves in attitudes of listening. Hunting-horn nearer.
Nima. 'Tis Miami and our hunters. Princess, why are your looks sad?