. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . 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 ev
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . 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. IN 1C*2(From an early Dutch account of Virginia) one look at the crowds waiting to see the ship come in, grunted inamazement, and threw away his bundle of sticks. In 1619, when the settlement was twelve years old, three im-portant events took place. The first was the arrival of a shipload A shipload ofof women. The London Company knew that unless the colonists ^°^^had homes of their own, they would come back to England assoon as they had made their fortunes. It w^as much better forthe Company to have permanent settlers than to have the landcultivated first by one man and then by another, so they broughtover ninety respectable young women who were willing to live inthe new country. There was many a suitor for the hand of 50 OUR COUNTRYS STORY every girl. The oue whom she chose must pay the cost of herpassage, — one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco, — andsoon there were ninety marriages and ninety homes. The comingof these women and of those who followed them was wha
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