. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . and, and was received withgreat ceremony and presented at court. The Indians had beentold that Smith was dead, but Powhatan, knowing that his coun-trymen will lie much, commanded them to find out the desired to be allowed to call Smith father, as she had beenaccustomed to do in Virginia, but he durst not, because she wasa kings daughter. When Smith had had his interview with Pocahontas, he hadbeen, according to his own words, on the eve of sailing to NewEngland; but for some reason, did not go. Later, he made an- 108 CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. o
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . and, and was received withgreat ceremony and presented at court. The Indians had beentold that Smith was dead, but Powhatan, knowing that his coun-trymen will lie much, commanded them to find out the desired to be allowed to call Smith father, as she had beenaccustomed to do in Virginia, but he durst not, because she wasa kings daughter. When Smith had had his interview with Pocahontas, he hadbeen, according to his own words, on the eve of sailing to NewEngland; but for some reason, did not go. Later, he made an- 108 CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. other effort to go to the new country for which he had done somuch. In March, 1622, the Indians, no longer restrained by the in-fluence of Pocahontas, attacked the settlement at Jamestown, andmassacred three hundred and forty-seven Englishmen. The newscreated great excitement in the mother country, and Capt. Smith,deeply affected by this misfortune of the colony in which he tookso keen an interest, was very anxious to be allowed to go to Vir-. BESTRUCTION OF A VIRGINIA SETTLEMENT. ginia in person, to avenge the outrage. The company professeditself too much impoverished, however, to bear the expense ofsuch an expedition; and their plan, which was to remunerate himand his soldiers out of the pillage, was rejected by him with thecontemptuous statement that he would not give twenty poundsfor all the pillage that could be obtained from the savages intwenty years. With this, he retires from the history of the colonies, if we ex^cept his answers to commissioners appointed shortly before the CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. 109 charter of Virginia was abrogated, to inquire into the abuses ofauthority by the company. His death occurred in London, in1631, in the tifty-second year of his age. We could relate littleof his early history that is not to be doubted; performing hiswork at Jamestown, when his connection with the American col-onies ceased he sank into obscurity again, until death. CHAPTER IV.
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