The adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of two hundred and fifty horse, and sometime President of Virginia . ceive than to give presents, and had most likely, onhis part, been expecting some offering from Virginia,such as a flying squirrel or some such strange beast, being much affected to such toys. Busy as he was, Captain Smith set to work at onceto write his book for tL i ;_ .een. It was an accountof all that Pocahontas had done for the colony, andthus indirectly for the King himself. Dear Poca-hontas ! How vividly he recalled those dreadfulmoments of suspense when she had taken his h
The adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of two hundred and fifty horse, and sometime President of Virginia . ceive than to give presents, and had most likely, onhis part, been expecting some offering from Virginia,such as a flying squirrel or some such strange beast, being much affected to such toys. Busy as he was, Captain Smith set to work at onceto write his book for tL i ;_ .een. It was an accountof all that Pocahontas had done for the colony, andthus indirectly for the King himself. Dear Poca-hontas ! How vividly he recalled those dreadfulmoments of suspense when she had taken his headin her arms and interposed her frail body between himand the uplifted Indian clubs ; also that night whenshe ran through the woods to warn him and his com-panions of her fathers treachery ! All this he relatedto the Queen. He had no idea of her special venera-tion for himself; he attributed it to her extraordinaryaffection for all English people. He had alwaysregarded her as an instrument in the hands of Godfor the preservation of the colony, so that, in hisletter to the Queen, he dwelt particularly on the. QUEEN ANNE, WIFE OF JAMES a Portrait by P. VAN Somer, in the National Po>-trait Gallery. i6i6.] CAPT AIX JOHN SMITH 285 supplies of food that she constantly brought to thestarving inhabitants of James Town. For this greatservice he begged the Queen to show some recognition,pointing out that it was no untaught savage that heasked her to befriend, but the Christian wife of anEnglishman, who was well acquainted with the Englishlanguage and manners, and innately superior to theother women of her race. In this little book, or rather letter, John speaks ofher always as Pocahontas, that being the name bywhich he had known her, but among her other Englishfriends she was alluded to as the Lady Eebecca Eolfeas she much preferred her baptismal name to theheathenish Indian word, and the title Lady1 wasaccorded her in recognition of her rank as a kingsdaughter. Dr. King, the
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