The Exponent Press,
Culpeper, Va.
In the Introduction, the author says,
“We have expended great pains, and much time and thought, to demonstrate that the whole story of Pokahuntas and John Smith was mainly true, and not mythological, and unfit to be told, as some Virginia historians have been at pains to prove.
“But really, that it was true that Captain John Smith loved the Indian maiden, and that he was the one love of her life.”
The author cites the county records of Virginia to substantiate the facts upon which her story rests, and uses extensively the work of Annas Todkill, “My Lady Pokahuntas,” published in the seventeenth century.
Out of these materials has been evolved a narrative which is deeply interesting. How the Indian girl saved Captain Smith’s life, how she came to love him, how she saved the colony from starvation, how the enemies of Captain Smith finally made his position unbearable and how he sailed away, after a tender leave-taking of Pokahuntas, how the ungrateful colonists captured the girl and held her as hostage, how the report of Captain Smith’s death came to Jamestown and was believed by all, how the Indian maiden was wooed and won by Rolfe, how she went to England and was the honored guest of royalty, how she saw Captain Smith at Shakespeare’s theatre, how her love for him revived and filled her with despair, how she sickened and died,—such is the outline of this fascinating story. The author tells it, without the waste of a word, and with simplicity, directness and force.
Disastrous Financial Panics:
Cause and Remedy.
By Jesse Gillmore,
San Diego, Cal.
Price 25 cents.