A history of Virginia for boys and girls . in this connection for teacher and pupils. 2. At the point where Smith is termed both a writer anda fighter, the teacher may add a helpful touch by readingcertain lines from the first portion of Longfellows Court-ship of Miles Standish. CHAPTER IV POCAHONTAS AND HER PEOPLE We have said that the name of Pocahontas, thefavorite daughter of Powhatan, is written large in the history of Virginia. Bythis we mean that she did muchto help the white people in theearly days of danger, and thatever since then her name hasbeen remembered and example,
A history of Virginia for boys and girls . in this connection for teacher and pupils. 2. At the point where Smith is termed both a writer anda fighter, the teacher may add a helpful touch by readingcertain lines from the first portion of Longfellows Court-ship of Miles Standish. CHAPTER IV POCAHONTAS AND HER PEOPLE We have said that the name of Pocahontas, thefavorite daughter of Powhatan, is written large in the history of Virginia. Bythis we mean that she did muchto help the white people in theearly days of danger, and thatever since then her name hasbeen remembered and example, in 1821 a countyof Virginia was named afterher. In 1863 this county andforty-nine others were madeinto the state of West Vir-ginia ; but that county is stillcalled Pocahontas. On a mapof the Mountain State, as WestVirginia is often termed, youcan see it; and you will noticethat some of the head-waters of the James AN INDIAN BOY. POSSIBLY POCAHONTAS -KlVCr COmC irOm HAD SUCH A BROTHER ^j^g mouutaiu valkys just east of Pocahontas County. 28. POCAHONTAS AND HER PEOPLE 29 On a fair day in June, 1898, the writer went downthe James River from Richmond to Norfolk on atrim new steamboat. In those days that newboat was spoken of as a beautiful stranger on theJames. It stopped at Jamestown Island andmany other places along the winding course of thehistoric river. But its name was not new, neitherwas it strange or unknown. That new boat wasthe Pocahontas. For many years it steamed upand down the James, the ancient river of Powhatan,passing from day to day the places where Poca-hontas as a child and as a young woman used tosee Captain John Smith and the other white menfrom England. But the first meeting of Smith and Pocahontaswas on the York River. After Smith had beencaptured in the White Oak Swamp he was ledbefore chief Opechancanough. The latter at oncedecided to kill him; but luckily Smith had in hispocket a small compass. This he showed to thesavage chief, whose eyes began to sparkle
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