Graham's magazine . VA l. GRAHAMS MAGAZINE. Vol. XX. PHILADELPHIA: MARCH, 1842. No. 3. THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN. The settlement at Jamestown was begun in the earliest of the adventurers was thechivalrous Captain Smith, whose life was a romanceeven in those romantic days. He soon came to bethe leader of the colonists, and it was through hisexertions that the settlement was kept up, amid pri-vations and dangers almost incredible. The storyof his capture by the Indians, and his preservationfrom death by Pocahontas, has become a nationaltradition, and poets have sung, orators declaimed,
Graham's magazine . VA l. GRAHAMS MAGAZINE. Vol. XX. PHILADELPHIA: MARCH, 1842. No. 3. THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN. The settlement at Jamestown was begun in the earliest of the adventurers was thechivalrous Captain Smith, whose life was a romanceeven in those romantic days. He soon came to bethe leader of the colonists, and it was through hisexertions that the settlement was kept up, amid pri-vations and dangers almost incredible. The storyof his capture by the Indians, and his preservationfrom death by Pocahontas, has become a nationaltradition, and poets have sung, orators declaimed,and novelists penned volumes to record the braveryof the Captain, and the love of the Indian maid. But,perhaps, nowhere is the story told with such effectas in the Generall Historie of the gallant Smithhimself, a work published in 1624, and still to be metwith in the libraries of the curious. The book is ararity. It is adorned with maps,—not the mostcorrect, to be sure—and with engravings settingforth the various perr
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