The adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of two hundred and fifty horse, and sometime President of Virginia . He was very much respected by every one; evenhis detractors of the Virginia Company were silentwhen they saw how his warnings had come Board of Directors often sent for him and askedhis advice, especially when the news came of anotherhorrible massacre by the loving, simple savages. 1622. Opechancanough, now Emperor after the death ofPowhatan, and his Indians had slain three hundredand forty-seven English, burnt their houses, and stolentheir cattle. For a year the war rage
The adventures of Captain John Smith, Captain of two hundred and fifty horse, and sometime President of Virginia . He was very much respected by every one; evenhis detractors of the Virginia Company were silentwhen they saw how his warnings had come Board of Directors often sent for him and askedhis advice, especially when the news came of anotherhorrible massacre by the loving, simple savages. 1622. Opechancanough, now Emperor after the death ofPowhatan, and his Indians had slain three hundredand forty-seven English, burnt their houses, and stolentheir cattle. For a year the war raged between theEnglish and the natives, and the Company was onthe verge of nun. In this emergency Captain Smithoffered to go out again to Virginia, and to do whathe could to pull the colony together; but aftersome preparation it was found that there was notenough capital to fit out an expedition, and shortlyafter the Company became bankrupt and wound upits affairs. 1G24. So ended the famous London Virginian thousand settlers still remained in were left to themselves; there was no more. FRANCES, DUCHESS OF RICHMOND AND LENNOX. From an Engraving by W. be Passe, in the Bermuda volume of the True Travels and Adventures of Captain John Smith. 1624.] CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH 301 Board of Directors to interfere with them, no moreships of supplies; but, on the other hand, therewere no more shareholders clamouring for man worked for himself and his family, andfrom that time forth Virginia began to steadilyprosper. So, this first stage of the history of Virginia beingended, Smith set to work to compile a book, beginningwith its early settlement in the reign of was an expensive undertaking ; but a great lady,Frances Duchess of Richmond, helped him withmoney to procure maps, manuscripts, and illustra-tions. Here is her portrait, which will give myyouthful readers some idea of the costume of ladiesof the Court. It may perhaps interest them to
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