Young folks' history of the United States . of the hostile ship was given to him. After-wards he went to fight against the Turks ; and, duringa long siege, a certain Turkish officer requested thatsome Christian officer would meet him in single com-bat to amuse the accepted the chal-lenge, and killed not onlythis officer, but two othersin succession. After atime he was taken pris-oner, was sold as a slave,and was pitied and aidedby his mistress, whosename was , making his escape,he reached Russia, wentthence to Austria, Spain,and Morocco, and cameCAPT. JOHN SMITH.
Young folks' history of the United States . of the hostile ship was given to him. After-wards he went to fight against the Turks ; and, duringa long siege, a certain Turkish officer requested thatsome Christian officer would meet him in single com-bat to amuse the accepted the chal-lenge, and killed not onlythis officer, but two othersin succession. After atime he was taken pris-oner, was sold as a slave,and was pitied and aidedby his mistress, whosename was , making his escape,he reached Russia, wentthence to Austria, Spain,and Morocco, and cameCAPT. JOHN SMITH. back to Europc at last all ready for fresh soon heard of Captain Newports expedition to Vir-ginia, and eagerly joined it. They sailed Dec. 19, 1606, with three vessels ; theparty consisting of a hundred and five men in all,without women or children. When they at last enteredChesapeake Bay, the explorers were delighted with allthey saw; and Captain Smith wrote that heaven andearth never agreed better to frame a place for mans. VIRGINIA. 113 habitation. They called the capes between which theyentered the bay, Cape Henry and Cape Charles,after their young princes. They named Old PointComfort for the good anchorage which they foundthere after a severe storm; and they called JamesRiver the Kings River, and their first settlementJames City (now Jamestown) in honor of theirking. They landed at this place May 13, 1607, andfounded the first permanent English colony in NorthAmerica. It had been intended that Smith should be one of characterthe directors of the colony ; but the others were all colonists,jealous of him, and so prevented him from taking thatposition. But they could not prevent him from beingthe ablest man among them ; and so they often hadto turn to him, and finally made him their truth was, that the colonists were a troublesomeclass to deal with. Many of them were not at all in-dustrious or energetic. There were very few mechan-ics or farmers am
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