He can't yet prove he has found the fort, but he's optimistic. A helmet resembles the one John Smith dons in the film. A raccoon skull has teeth so worn that the animal lived far longer than the norm, possibly as a settler's pet. The island is going wild again after centuries of cultivation. A 5-mile drive passes lush forests and marshes where turtles swim.
Deer emerge late in the day.
Paradise was too swampy for the English, who built their second permanent settlement, Henrico, on a bluff above the James River. Pocahontas may have been baptized in Henrico's church when she converted to Christianity at age 18 or 19 and took the name Rebecca. The oddest display shows how scientists tried to skin a dead elephant with Indian-style stone and bone tools. Take Route 30 to Route 633 and follow signs. At the 125-acre Mattaponi Reservation some 30 minutes from the Pamunkey land, an old portrait of Pocahontas peers out from a cracked window of the museum, a worn brick rambler.