The adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of two hundred and fifty horse, and sometime President of Virginia . and wretched condition ofthe people. They are all lords or slaves in these countries,which makes them so subject to every invasion. At last he found himself back in Transylvania. Hemade his way to the town of Hermanstadt, where heheard Robinson and Carleton and other old comradesin arms were quartered. These good friends wereovercome with delight at seeing him again; theyhad quite given him up for dead, so now they couldhardly do enough to welcome him. He, to use hisown expression
The adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of two hundred and fifty horse, and sometime President of Virginia . and wretched condition ofthe people. They are all lords or slaves in these countries,which makes them so subject to every invasion. At last he found himself back in Transylvania. Hemade his way to the town of Hermanstadt, where heheard Robinson and Carleton and other old comradesin arms were quartered. These good friends wereovercome with delight at seeing him again; theyhad quite given him up for dead, so now they couldhardly do enough to welcome him. He, to use hisown expression, was near drowned with joy, andwould have stayed much longer among them had henot wished to return to England once more. His onlyregret was not to find Prince Sigismund Batori andhis old Colonel, Count Meldrich. The Count hadleft Transylvania in disgust when it was ceded to theEmperor, determined to share the fortunes of hismaster. He was now at Leipsic, where Sigismundwas holding his court, and thither Captain JohnSmith took his journey. He still regarded the Prince as his liege lord, and ~c ^iilTiif *•*. SIGISMUND BATORI. From an original Engraving by Van DER Passe, in tiic British Museum. 1603.] CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH 123 he wanted to obtain his formal discharge from theTransylvanian army. He arrived early in December,and once again the veteran colonel and the youngEnglish captain clasped each other by the was now more than a year since that awful day atRothenthurm, and both had gone through manysorrows and perils since then. Prince Sigismund had not forgotten the gratitudehe owed to the stranger who had fought so valiantlyfor his unhappy country. It is natural that you should desire to return toyour own sweet land, he sighed; and you have hadmany losses and various fortunes in my service. So he insisted upon Johns accepting the sum offifteen hundred ducats in gold, and wrote him a passthat would take him all over Europe, with the patentlof his coat-of-arms, for John
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