[77] See my Discovery of America, ii. 59.
[78] Neill's Virginia Company, p. 32.
[79] See Spelman's account of the affair, in Smith's Works, pp. cii.-cv.
[80] See my Discovery of America, i. 27, 28, and passim. For a national floral emblem, however, the columbine (aquilegia) has probably more points in its favour than any other.
[81] Smith's Works, p. 486.
[82] Brown's Genesis, i. 407.
[83] Smith's Works, p. 487.
[84] Smith's Works, p. 508.
[85] Another interesting person sailed with Argall to Jamestown. A lad, Henry Spelman, son of the famous antiquary. Sir Henry Spelman, was at the Pamunkey village when Ratcliffe and his party were massacred by The Powhatan (see above, p. 153). The young man's life was saved by Pocahontas, and he was probably adopted. Argall found him with Pocahontas among the Potomacs, and bought him at the cost of a small further outlay in copper. Spelman afterward became a person of some importance in the colony. His "Relation of Virginia," containing an interesting account of the Ratcliffe massacre and other matters, was first published under the learned editorship of Henry Stevens in 1872, and has since been reprinted in Arber's invaluable edition of Smith's Works, pp. ci.-cxiv.
[86] Neill's Virginia Company, p. 98.