. Colonial children . ts for them to shoot at. So skilful do they expect the children to become,that the mother often throws up in the air a pieceof moss which the boy must hit as it falls, with hisarrow. If he does not succeed he cannot have hisbreakfast. 98 hicL icins [No. 34 34. The Capture of Pocahontas,the Little Indian Princess The authorof ihis piecelived amongthe the mostpowerful By Raphe Hamor (1613-1614) It chanced thatPowhatans delightand darling, hisdaughter Pocahon-tas, whose famehas been spreadeven in England,took the pleasureto visit her friendsat the Potomac
. Colonial children . ts for them to shoot at. So skilful do they expect the children to become,that the mother often throws up in the air a pieceof moss which the boy must hit as it falls, with hisarrow. If he does not succeed he cannot have hisbreakfast. 98 hicL icins [No. 34 34. The Capture of Pocahontas,the Little Indian Princess The authorof ihis piecelived amongthe the mostpowerful By Raphe Hamor (1613-1614) It chanced thatPowhatans delightand darling, hisdaughter Pocahon-tas, whose famehas been spreadeven in England,took the pleasureto visit her friendsat the friends hadbeen sent thitherlike shopkeepers ata fair, to exchangesome of her fatherscommodities forthose of this re-gion. She camein the absence ofCaptain she had been staying here some three monthsor longer, it happened that Captain Argall arrivedin search either of hope or profit. Pocahontas, desir-ous to renew her familiarity with the English, anddelighting to see them, said she would gladly visit. POCAHONTAS. Indian living them, keeping herself unknown, perhaps because sheEneiishin was aira^ °f being seized. No sooner had Captain No. 34] Pocahontas 99 Argall received intelligence of her, than he plannedwith an old friend and adopted brother of his, calledJapazeus, how and by what means he might procureher as a captive. He told the Indian that now or never was the timeto give pleasure to his friend, if he really possessedthat love of which he had made profession. CaptainArgall told him that as a ransom for Pocahontas hemight recover some of our English men and arms,now in the possession of her father. He promised touse her fairly and with gentle treatment. Japazeus, fully assured that his brother would useher courteously as he promised, gave in turn his wordthat he would use his best endeavors and secrecy toaccomplish this desire. And thus he wrought it, mak-ing his own wife an instrument to aid his plot. ForJapazeus agreed that his wife, Pocahontas, and h
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