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··------------ ·----~ --- ----·- -··------·- - ---· ---··---··---- . ·- ·· ····-- - ·-··---·----, .....-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--. i I i POCAHONTAS i Bright Stream Between Two Hills BY MARGUERITE STUART Q_U AR LES PUBLISHED BY THE A SSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VIRGIN IA ANTIQUITIES '---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~·. Il --·----- ··- - ··-----·· - -- ·--···--· ~-·-- · --···· .. --·- -·· -· -· ---~· POCAHONTAS (BRIGHT STREAI'vl BETvVEEN T\VO HILLS) BY 1-fARGUERITE STUART Q UARLES . ' ,. " J '·.: -~:l-~~ ' ILL UST .R A T E D I P lIBJ.ISI-r rm HY TH E AssocIATION FOR THE ! P RF.SERVATION O F VIRG I N IA ANT I QUlTlES ! CoPYJUCH'f', 1939, T H E Ass ocr;\T1 0 ~ FOK THE Pins~Kv ..'>nO N OF V1RCINB. A:\'T10u1TJ£s Printed in the United Stales of /l. mcrrca THE DIETZ PRESS, RTCH!\-I OND, VA. I FOHE\V(bH.D I N this small 1ftook onl the Indian Princess Pocahontas I ha\' L'. gathered, from scattered I and frag mentary sou rc~s of authentic infor­ mation on her life,. those ilnI cidents which I fed to b e the most significant in ia story that is unique, and which I hope may he 9f interest to all who rea d its pi1g e ~. Had she dore no more than save the life of Captain J ohn Sj11i th, she would have won a plan; among the g rdat; but this was on ly one of a number of dcec.ls :which make her out­ standin g- far above any of h[cr time, a personality which commands not mc:relv 1adrniration ·lrnt I . affrction. No one has yet written anything of her that docs full jLJs ticc to her gr ~at abilities and lofty character. Her stor y is an ~pie one, which leaves a haunting memor y o f a r ~rn at ic li fe and early d<.:ath, and those of us who ~ o ve her mem ory feel for her a g n:at reverence, !and understand why Captain Smith, in h is writings, spoke of h er as the " X onpareil of Virginia." -M. S. Q. SARAH CONSTA.NT~. • ~ IOO T O NS ..,,...,,~,<- ~ " ,.. \. '?).\(I 1 .:?';,~· ... ·;I ·.. r /~ - / , . r1 ~ / \ ~I . I •;(-'.·: \ _ ~~tnfhl~~ -~~~t GOODS P EED DI S CO V E RY .c'l· O TONS 2 0 TONS THE SHIPS THAT BROU GHT THE FOUNDERS OF TH E NATION Setile d from Rl ackwall, England, Decem ber 19, r 606 Arrived at J amestown, Virginia, J\ifay r 3, 160 7 POCAHONTAS - , [:V [E, which often delights in obliterating, has through the centuries 1nellowed with unfading color the story of Pocahontas, whose kind st:rviccs to the lonel y ~nd destitute Virginia Colonists of 1607 will foreve1· make her one of the rnost beloved hgures in A rncri<: an history, ·and place her in the front ranks of the world's gr eat worncn. lfrr story is inseparable from that of Captain .J ohn Smith, the gallant Englishman, for \Yh om she risked her voung li fe; thus we think of them together. In th !.'. annals of heroes their names will forever ·be impe1·i shable, their 1nen10ry cause for n1uch that fill s us wi th in sp iration. Historians h.we placed th e year of her birth as 1595, and J ohn Smith describes her, at th<.: time of their firs~ meeting, as : "The King's n1ost 'lleare an d well bclov;.:.cl daught<.:r, hein g bm a childc of t>n:lve or thirteen ycares of age, \\·hose compassion­ ate pitiful h eart, ot my despera7<.: <.:sta te, g;ve rne rn ucn ca tb l~ to respect her." She is said to have had twenty brothers, eleve11 sist<.:rs, and elcvrn step-mothers. Of her mother we have no ckfinit<.: inf orma ~ ion, hut her father, the 1\t1 ighty Chief Powhatan, was about seventy at the ti me the En gli~ h .arrived in V irginia. H e 01n1ed a n ~un b c1· or villages and moved, as suited his pleasure, from one to ·anothci-. Fle is ckscribed as a tall , gaunt old man wi th a "sour" look. His ability, both in war and in peace, made him feared not only by his own sub­ jects, over whom h e .rlllcd as a K ing, but ·by other tribes as well. The Indians of Virginia wcr<.: of the Algonquin :'\a ti on. Thcv were divick d into many tribes. such as the Powhatan, P·an{unkey, :.Vlattaponi, and (;t:hcrs. .:V'faking- weapons, toma­ hawks and arrows was the work of the men, and their pleasures consisted in fi shing from canoes along the many ri vers, or warring with other lndi·an trib<.:s . The woman's share in life was rnenial: erec ting and pull ing down the wigwarns, ca rrying [ 5 ] them in times o f migration, cooking the food, rearing the children, and applauding the men at their sports. lnto this lifr grew little Pocahontas, a n untutored child of the V irginia forests, brought up under barha rous conditions. She bore three names : Amonate, Pocahontas (meaning "A Bright Stream Bctwcrn T Yv o Hills"), and lVIa toax, which translated means "Tht: Littl e Snow Feather." :.Vlaro ax, her secret name, was us ed only among her own people, as the Indians <bel ieved harm would ob e fall t h ose whose real names were known to other tribes. To the suff ering and di scouraged settlers of early J amestown she extended primitive hospitality and generous friendship. Pocahontas, p erhaps, did more to inRuence the fate of the vVestern continent than an y other \v ornan in the world, except Queen I sabdh, of Spain. In 16 I 6 J ohn Srni th, wr[ting of her to Queen Anne, said: "She n ext under God was still the instrument to preserue [ preserve ] this Colony from death, fa mine, and utter confusion." / --. On D ecember r 9, I 606, * three small s·hips, the Sarah ./ Co11 .,·1ant, the Goodspeed, and the D iscm.:ery, ldt Blackwall, England, and sail ed down th e Thames to carry a band of IO) l <'.ngli shmcn toward that v[rgin continent which they believed held not only a short passage to India, but: "where gold is more plentiful than rnppe r-for rubies and diamonds they go forth on hol i cla~· s and giather 'cm by the seashore." F or four months they labored through a wild waste o f wate rs w·hich appc·ared to overwhelm them. But God's hand directed both wind and tide, and on A p ril 26, I 6l)j, they sailed into the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Strachey, writing of the Ches apeake said: " Indeed it is a goodly Day, and a fai rer not easily to be found." Another \vri ter says: "They discoven:.cl nothing worth s pe1ciking of hut faire meadows and goodly trees, wi th snch Fresh \ Vatcrs running th rough the ·woods, as 1 ( George P ercy) t w as almost ravished a t the sight thereof." H e fu rther states; " I ndians came creeping upon all fours, from the idls like bears ... bows in their mouths and charged us \Tery desperately in the foces . .. after they had spent their arrows and fdt the sh arp­ ness of our shot rhey retired into the woods with a greate noyse. tt o11 scc: .Appem.Jix ..i\. 'l'Ilrother of rhe Duke r1f Nnrthumberland. [ 6 ] C ontinual ''" ar at sea betwern the Sp anish and the E nglish made such an exposed spot too d angerous, but they p la nted a cross, and called the place Cape H enry.* Two days \Vere s p c n~ exploring land and sea. After a time they sailed up a n ew-found rive r wh ich, in honor of their King, they n a med J a mes : on :vlay I 3th, they came about sunset to a low lying peninsula, which they also namc<l for their K ing, J a mestown, where, amid th e blowing of trumpets and sound of excited talklng, the ships came to anchor in water 'SO deep that they could -be moored to the trees along the shore_ The voyage h ad been long and fearful, and the men were glad to put foot on land, where, in the pleasant m onth of l\!lay, sweet odors w er e exhaled by nature's flowers ; the sky was b arr ed with cri mson and g oid as the fi er y r im of the. sun sank over the western hor iz on and land and river were glorified . H er e on Virginia soil they knelt, and led by the l~ e veren d R obert Hunt, th eir C hapla in, gave thanks to God wh o -had brought then1 safely through the terrors of the deep . During the first month a fort was built, and the entire Colony establish ed within it. The m urmur of many \'Oices, t he ch opp ing o f axes, the sound o f l. a ugh ter an d of song fl oated out on the still ,air. Squirrels chattered at th eir in terrupted pe ace, an d tih rough the limitless expanse of the forest rang the bewildered call of wild beasts. A t dusk there came to the weary group with in the fort the dank, rich fragrance of wet mould and r ain-bruised ferns, and the eerie sighing of reeds beneath the Yvi llows. Above ~h1~ n 1 the stars gleame d strangely, lik e b1mps in the m idst of the sky; while about them millions o f fi rell ies fl ickered, a nd the glow-,yorn1s burned w ith splashes of magical li ght.
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