. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . and the other men who were with him, learnedfrom the Indians to smoke the weed called tobacco, andcarried quite a large amount of it home with them. Not only Sir Walter Raleigh, who knew Master Lanevery well, but many other people in England alsolearned to smoke, and therefore it was that when we ofJamestown began to raise tobacco, it found a moreready sale in London than any other thing we could sendover. Once this was known, our people gave the greaterportion of their time to cultivating the Indian weed. THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN Very
. Richard of Jamestown ; a story of the Virginia colony . and the other men who were with him, learnedfrom the Indians to smoke the weed called tobacco, andcarried quite a large amount of it home with them. Not only Sir Walter Raleigh, who knew Master Lanevery well, but many other people in England alsolearned to smoke, and therefore it was that when we ofJamestown began to raise tobacco, it found a moreready sale in London than any other thing we could sendover. Once this was known, our people gave the greaterportion of their time to cultivating the Indian weed. THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN Very nearly the first thing which my master did afterhaving been made President of the Council, was to obeythe orders of the London Company, by going withCaptain Newport to Powhatans village in order tocrown him like a king. This was not at all to the pleasure of the savage, whofailed of understanding what my master and Captain THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN 133 Newport meant, when they wanted him to kneel downso they might put the crown upon his head. If all the. stories which I have heard regarding the matter are true,they must have had quite a scrimmage before succeedingin getting him into what they believed was a properposition to receive the gifts of the London Company. Our people, so Master Hunt told me, were obliged totake him by the shoulders and force him to his knees,after which they clapped the crown on his head, andthrew the red robe around his shoulders in a mightyhurry lest he show fight and overcome them. It was some time before Captain Smith could makehim understand that it was a great honor which wasbeing done him, but when he did get it through his RICHARD OF JAMESTOWN head, he took off his old moccasins and brought fromthe hut his raccoon-skin coat, with orders that mymaster and Captain Newport send them all to KingJames in London, as a present from the great Powhatanof Virginia. After this had been done, Captain Newport sailed upthe James River in search of the passage
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