A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ater. Newport came with orders from the London Council to bring homea lump of gold, to discover the passage to the South Sea, and . r> T T . f»i T-» 1/^1 TT1 1 Coionation to lind the survivors ot the Koanoke Colony. He brought of Pow- with him also some costly novelties, as a basin, a ewer, a bed and some clothes for Powhatan, with directions
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ater. Newport came with orders from the London Council to bring homea lump of gold, to discover the passage to the South Sea, and . r> T T . f»i T-» 1/^1 TT1 1 Coionation to lind the survivors ot the Koanoke Colony. He brought of Pow- with him also some costly novelties, as a basin, a ewer, a bed and some clothes for Powhatan, with directions to bestow the 288 FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA. [Chap. XI. ceremony of a coronation upon that naked monarch. He found neitherthe lump of gold, the passage to the Pacific, nor any of the survivorsof the Roanoke massacre ; but he crowned the savage who had, per-haps, procured the deaths of those unhappy persons. Powhatan, reminded of his royal state, declined to go to Jamestownto receive the presents when summoned thither by Smith as a specialambassador. I also am a king, he said; and if the King of Eng-land had sent him gifts, they should be brought to him; he should notgo to receive them. Newport went, and the gifts were accepted; but. Coronation of Powhatan. the coronation was a more difficult matter. No persuasions could in-duce the chief to kneel, and it was only by bearing heavily upon hisshoulders that he^ could be made to stoop so low as to admit of theassumption that his posture was the proper one for the placing of acrown upon his head. The firing of a pistol as a signal for a volleyfrom the boats in honor of the event startled him into an attitude ofdefence with the suspicion that he was the victim of some treachery;but being presently reassured of the entire sincerity of these proceed-ings, he accepted them as an acknowledgment of his regal state, andgave his old moccasins, the deer-skin he used for a blanket, and sevenor eight bushels of corn in the ear, to
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