Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . f the was sentenced to die. His head was laid on the block of stone, and theclubs were uplifted to beat him to death, when female tenderness came to hissuccor. Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan, rushed between the execu-tioners and their victim, and covered his head with her own. Poetry, painting,,and sculpture, have tri
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . f the was sentenced to die. His head was laid on the block of stone, and theclubs were uplifted to beat him to death, when female tenderness came to hissuccor. Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan, rushed between the execu-tioners and their victim, and covered his head with her own. Poetry, painting,,and sculpture, have tried to give immortality to this event: but they have addednothing to the moral beauty of the scene—that is inherent in the story ; no mea-ger terms can diminish its interest, no swell of language increase its lustre ; eventhe cold chronologist stpps to say something affecting upon it, and the annalistgrows eloquent as he puts it upon his record. Smith was not only saved, butin two days afterward restored to liberty, to undertake new enterprises. The next year Smith made his voyage toward the source of the ChesapeakeHe sailed in an open boat three thousand miles. This was a much greatei CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. 163 *r nj .1 .P K.:lJ: 111 ^3^581 I ailll iff1-Wm. 164 CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. feat than the Argonautic expedition. The Indians, full of sagacity, soon sawthat he was the master-spirit of the colony, and they feared and respected himmore than all the rest of the white men. It was not until 1609 that Virginia, under a new charter, began to flourish;but still the colony had great difficulties to encounter. Powhatan had, from theimprudence of some of the white men, determined, at one blow, to extirpate thewhole race. The Indian girl who was the preserver of Smith was now thetutelary angel of the whole body of the whites. She apprized the colonists ofthe intended massacre : she ran, after her father had retired to sleep, nine orten miles through the woods, and returned without exciti
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