Young folks' history of the United States . ompanions were killed. He, fSinc^Lshowever, amused his captors by showing them his com-pass, and by explaining to them the movements of theearth and sun ; so that they spared him. Then he puz-zled them very much by writing a letter to be sent to hisfriends; for the Indians could not well understand howa message could be put on a piece of paper. Then hewas condemned to death by Powhatan, an Indian chief;but the chiefs daughter Pocahontas, a girl twelve years , threw herself between the prisoner and the uplifted **^*tomahawk, and Captain Smi
Young folks' history of the United States . ompanions were killed. He, fSinc^Lshowever, amused his captors by showing them his com-pass, and by explaining to them the movements of theearth and sun ; so that they spared him. Then he puz-zled them very much by writing a letter to be sent to hisfriends; for the Indians could not well understand howa message could be put on a piece of paper. Then hewas condemned to death by Powhatan, an Indian chief;but the chiefs daughter Pocahontas, a girl twelve years , threw herself between the prisoner and the uplifted **^*tomahawk, and Captain Smith was spared. This story Il5 VOUNG FOLKS* UNITED STATES. has been doubted in later times and may not be true, but itis certain that there was such a person as Pocahontas, andthat, when she grew to be a woman, she became a Chris-tian, was married to an EngUshman named Rolfe, andwent with him to England, where, as an English writer ofthat day says, She did not onely accustom herself tocivilite, but carried herself as the daughter of a Tha • StarvingTime. SMITH SHOWING COMPASS TO THE INDIANS. She died soon after. Capt. John Smith also went toEngland in 1609, to be cured of a severe wound; andhe never returned to the colony. After his departure,things grew worse and worse among the emigrants ; andin six months they left Jamestown in despair, meaningto return to England forever. When Captain Smith hadleft them, there had been five hundred of them: but VIRGINIA. 117 now there were only sixty. None dropped a tear,they wrote; for none had enjoyed one day of happi-ness. But, as they went down the James River, theymet the long-boat of a vessel; and it proved to belongto an English ship which had brought them out a sup-ply of provisions and a new governor. Lord De la Ware,or Delaware. Then they returned, and went on livingin Jamestown; but that period of suffering was alwaysremembered as the starving time. The settlers in Virginia did not generally live inThevir- o ^ ginia plan*
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