Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . fy the plain historical evidencesupon which its veracity depends. It will stillhold its place in the earliest chapters of Vir-ginia history, and still command, as it everhas done, the interest and admiration ofthe young and old of our republic. The circumstances of the rescue of Captain John Smith, according to the mosttrustworthy chronicles, are these : From the time of his first landing on the banks ofthe river with the voya
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . fy the plain historical evidencesupon which its veracity depends. It will stillhold its place in the earliest chapters of Vir-ginia history, and still command, as it everhas done, the interest and admiration ofthe young and old of our republic. The circumstances of the rescue of Captain John Smith, according to the mosttrustworthy chronicles, are these : From the time of his first landing on the banks ofthe river with the voyagers sent out under the auspices of the Virginia companyof London in 1606 to that of his departure from Jamestown for England in 1609, heomitted no opportunity to collect all possible information concerning the geographyand varied resources of the country for the occupation of which he had so faithfullylabored from the beginning of the enterprise. It was on one of his excursions in pur-suit of this object that he was surprised and captured by the natives and carried beforetheir king, Opechancanough. But in this strait his characteristic adroitness and tact. i oCA^OnTo. OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 11 served and saved him. Drawing from his pocket the little compass which had servedto guide him through the wilderness, he amused the savages by an explanation of itswonderful properties, and increased their admiration of his superior genius by impart-ing to them some vague conceptions of the form of the earth and the nature of theplanetary bodies. To the Indians who detained him as their prisoner, his captivity wasa stranger event than any circumstance of which the traditions of their people preservedthe memory. He was allowed to send a letter to the fort at Jamestown, and the sav-age wonder was increased ; for he seemed by some incomprehensible agency toendow thepaper with the gift of intelligence. The curiosity of all the clans of the neighborhoodwas awakened by the actions of the pr
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