THE LAND OF THE POWHATANS

One of Newport's passengers was Captain John Smith, a
young man whose career had been full of adventure[80]
Many persons have expressed doubts as to Smith's veracity,
but without good reason[81]
Early life of John Smith[82]
His adventures on the Mediterranean[83]
And in Transylvania[84]
How he slew and beheaded three Turks[85]
For which Prince Sigismund granted him a coat-of-arms
which was duly entered in the Heralds' College[86]
The incident was first told not by Smith but by Sigismund's
secretary Farnese[87]
Smith tells us much about himself, but is not a braggart[88]
How he was sold into slavery beyond the Sea of Azov and
cruelly treated[88], [89]
How he slew his master and escaped through Russia and
Poland[89], [90]
The smoke of controversy[90]
In the course of Newport's tedious voyage Smith is accused
of plotting mutiny and kept in irons[91]
Arrival of the colonists in Chesapeake Bay, May 13, 1607[92]
Founding of Jamestown; Wingfield chosen president[93]
Smith is set free and goes with Newport to explore the James
River[93], [94]
The Powhatan tribe, confederacy, and head war-chief[94]
How danger may lurk in long grass[95]
Smith is acquitted of all charges and takes his seat with the
council[96]
Newport sails for England, June 22, 1607[96]
George Percy's account of the sufferings of the colonists from
fever and famine[97]
Quarrels break out in which President Wingfield is deposed
and John Ratcliffe chosen in his place[99]
Execution of a member of the council for mutiny[100]
Smith goes up the Chickahominy River and is captured by
Opekankano[101]
Who takes him about the country and finally brings him to
Werowocomoco, January, 1608[102]
The Indians are about to kill him, but he is rescued by the
chief's daughter, Pocahontas[103]
Recent attempts to discredit the story[103]-[108]
Flimsiness of these attempts[104]
George Percy's pamphlet[105]
The printed text of the "True Relation" is incomplete[105], [106]
Reason why the Pocahontas incident was omitted in the
"True Relation"[106], [107]
There is no incongruity between the "True Relation" and
the "General History" except this omission[107]
But this omission creates a gap in the "True Relation," and
the account in the "General History" is the more intrinsically
probable[108]
The rescue was in strict accordance with Indian usage[109]
The ensuing ceremonies indicate that the rescue was an ordinary
case of adoption[110]
The Powhatan afterward proclaimed Smith a tribal chief[111]
The rescue of Smith by Pocahontas was an event of real historical
importance[111]
Captain Newport returns with the First Supply, Jan. 8, 1608[112]
Ratcliffe is deposed and Smith chosen president[113]
Arrival of the Second Supply, September, 1608[113]
Queer instructions brought by Captain Newport from the
London Company[113]
How Smith and Captain Newport went up to Werowocomoco,
and crowned The Powhatan[114]
How the Indian girls danced at Werowocomoco[114], [115]
Accuracy of Smith's descriptions[116]
How Newport tried in vain to search for a salt sea behind the
Blue Ridge[116]
Anas Todkill's complaint[117]
Smith's map of Virginia[118]

CHAPTER IV.

THE STARVING TIME.

How puns were made on Captain Newport's name[119]
Great importance of the Indian alliance[120]
Gentlemen as pioneers[121]
All is not gold that glitters[122]
Smith's attempts to make glass and soap[123]
The Company is disappointed at not making more money[124]
Tale-bearers and their complaints against Smith[124]
Smith's "Rude Answer" to the Company[125]
Says he cannot prevent quarrels[125]
And the Company's instructions have not been wise[126]
From infant industries too much must not be expected while
the colonists are suffering for want of food[127]
And while peculation and intrigue are rife and we are in sore
need of useful workmen[128]
Smith anticipates trouble from the Indians, whose character
is well described by Hakluyt[129]
What Smith dreaded[130]
How the red men's views of the situation were changed[131]
Smith's voyage to Werowocomoco[132]
His parley with The Powhatan[133]
A game of bluff[134]
The corn is brought[135]
Suspicions of treachery[136]
A wily orator[137]
Pocahontas reveals the plot[138]
Smith's message to The Powhatan[138], [139]
How Smith visited the Pamunkey village and brought Opekankano
to terms[139], [140]
How Smith appeared to the Indians in the light of a worker
of miracles[141]
What our chronicler calls "a pretty accident"[141]
How the first years of Old Virginia were an experiment in
communism[142]
Smith declares "He that will not work shall not eat," but
the summer's work is interrupted by unbidden messmates
in the shape of rats[143]
Arrival of young Samuel Argall with news from London[143], [144]
Second Charter of the London Company, 1609[144]
The council in London[145]
The local government in Virginia is entirely changed and
Thomas, Lord Delaware, is appointed governor for life[146]
A new expedition is organized for Virginia, but still with a
communistic programme[147], [148]
How the good ship Sea Venture was wrecked upon the Bermudas[149]
How this incident was used by Shakespeare in The Tempest[150]
Gates and Somers build pinnaces and sail for Jamestown,
May, 1610[151]
The Third Supply had arrived in August, 1609[151]
And Smith had returned to England in October[152]
Lord Delaware became alarmed and sailed for Virginia[152]
Meanwhile the sufferings of the colony had been horrible[153]
Of the 500 persons Gates and Somers found only 60 survivors,
and it was decided that Virginia must be abandoned[154]
Dismantling of Jamestown and departure of the colony[154], [155]
But the timely arrival of Lord Delaware in Hampton Roads
prevented the dire disaster[155]

CHAPTER V.

BEGINNINGS OF A COMMONWEALTH.

To the first English settlers in America a supply of Indian
corn was of vital consequence, as illustrated at Jamestown
and Plymouth[156]
Alliance with the Powhatan confederacy was of the first importance
to the infant colony[157]
Smith was a natural leader of men[157]
With much nobility of nature[158]
And but for him the colony would probably have perished[159]
Characteristic features of Lord Delaware's administration[160]
Death of Somers and cruise of Argall in 1610[161]
Kind of craftsmen desired for Virginia[162]
Sir Thomas Dale comes to govern Virginia in the capacity of
High Marshal[163]
A Draconian code of laws[164]
Cruel punishments[165]
How communism worked in practice[166]
How Dale abolished communism[167]
And founded the "City of Henricus"[167], [168]
How Captain Argall seized Pocahontas[168]
Her marriage with John Rolfe[169]
How Captain Argall extinguished the Jesuit settlement at
Mount Desert and burned Port Royal[170]
But left the Dutch at New Amsterdam with a warning[171]
How Pocahontas, "La Belle Sauvage," visited London and
was entertained there like a princess[171], [172]
Her last interview with Captain Smith[172]
Her sudden death at Gravesend[173]
How Tomocomo tried to take a census of the English[173]
How the English in Virginia began to cultivate tobacco in
spite of King James and his Counterblast[174]
Dialogue between Silenus and Kawasha[175]
Effects of tobacco culture upon the young colony[176], [177]
The London Company's Third Charter, 1612[177], [178]
How money was raised by lotteries[178]
How this new remodelling of the Company made it an important
force in politics[179]
Middleton's speech in opposition to the charter[180]
Richard Martin in the course of a brilliant speech forgets
himself and has to apologize[181]
How factions began to be developed within the London Company[182]
Sudden death of Lord Delaware[183]
Quarrel between Lord Rich and Sir Thomas Smith, resulting
in the election of Sir Edwin Sandys as treasurer of the
Company[184]
Sir George Yeardley is appointed governor of Virginia while
Argall is knighted[185]
How Sir Edwin Sandys introduced into Virginia the first
American legislature, 1619[186]
How this legislative assembly, like those afterwards constituted
in America, were formed after the type of the
old English county court[187]
How negro slaves were first introduced into Virginia, 1619.[188]
How cargoes of spinsters were sent out by the Company in
quest of husbands[189]
The great Indian massacre of 1622[189], [190]

CHAPTER VI.

A SEMINARY OF SEDITION.