. Indian history for young folks . was nearly drowned before he could be rescued. He left Vir-ginia in the autumn of 1609, and never returned. His efforts to pre-serve the colony, and to restrain the evil and turbulent spirits with whichit abounded, had made him unpopular, and his life had been many timesendangered by the machinations of his enemies. His later years were o i/ «/ employed in explorations of the New England coast, in the compositionof his valuable and interesting memoirs and descriptions of the NewWorld, and in efforts to interest London capitalists in its colonization. The only
. Indian history for young folks . was nearly drowned before he could be rescued. He left Vir-ginia in the autumn of 1609, and never returned. His efforts to pre-serve the colony, and to restrain the evil and turbulent spirits with whichit abounded, had made him unpopular, and his life had been many timesendangered by the machinations of his enemies. His later years were o i/ «/ employed in explorations of the New England coast, in the compositionof his valuable and interesting memoirs and descriptions of the NewWorld, and in efforts to interest London capitalists in its colonization. The only monument to the memory of this extraordinary man is a littlemarble shaft on the southerly summit of Star Island, one of the Isles ofShoals. His epitaph, given in Stows Survey of London, begins thus: Here lies one conquered that hath conquered kings. A tablet, \vith three Turks heads engraved upon it, in St. SepulchresChurch, London, marks the place of his burial. Powhatans successor, the famous Opechanganough. the gigantic chief. POCAHOXTAS. VIRGINIA COLONIZED. 103
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