. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . amestown was saved. On board the vessel was a new governor aaIio ruled in muchthe same way as John Smith. He gave every man a piece of landand said, You must work if you wish to eat. After a whilethe settlers became more willing to work, forthey foimd that it paid better than searching forgold. A far-seeing man named John Kolfe had be-gun to raise tobacco. Smoking was now commonin England, and smokers would pay a large pricefor Virginia tobacco, so before many years thepoor Airginians were becoming the rich Mrghi-ians. One cha
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . amestown was saved. On board the vessel was a new governor aaIio ruled in muchthe same way as John Smith. He gave every man a piece of landand said, You must work if you wish to eat. After a whilethe settlers became more willing to work, forthey foimd that it paid better than searching forgold. A far-seeing man named John Kolfe had be-gun to raise tobacco. Smoking was now commonin England, and smokers would pay a large pricefor Virginia tobacco, so before many years thepoor Airginians were becoming the rich Mrghi-ians. One chapter of the liistory of the colony migluhave come from a story-book. When the littlegirl Pocahontas was about twenty years old, shemarried the planter Jolm Kolfe, who took hisl)ride to England. The Lady Kebekah, as sheAViKGiNiA PLANTi:it was tlicrc callcd, was received as a princess, thedaughter of a great king, for even then people in Europe couldnot seem to understand that Powhatan was not a mighty sov-ereign governing a nation, but a naked savage ruling over a. The LadyRebekah VIRGINIA 49 little tribe in the wilderness. John Smith went to see the tall,handsome, dignified young woman, but when he addressed her as Lady Rebekah, she was grieved and said: But you must callme your child and let me call you father, just as we did m Vir-ginia. Powhatan sent several of his tribe to England with was anxious to know how many people there were in the Counting thedistant land across the ocean, and to one of his men he gave a ^ ^bundle of little sticks, telling him to cut a notch every time hemet a white man. When the Indian landed in London, he took
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