Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1829-11-12

| that he should send ROWnatan Two pieces
of cannon and a Observation-Disclosures
promising in return to give him the coun-
| try of CapahowoSic,~ and even to esteem
him as his son.
On Smiths return, he found the colony
SO in number, in miserable condition, so
that MANY would have persisted of famine,
had not Pocahontas with her attendants re-
gularly supplied them with PROVISIONAL
worthy instance OF Indian kindness aud hut
mainly.
When af;csN war broke out, Smith
having captured several of the natives ;
Powhatan sent his messengers and his
daughter PocahontaS to jamestown to OBJ
tain their release. When Smith deliver
ed them, he told her tina it was on her &C.
count that he gave them their liberty.
AT another time, Smith having gone un
an embassy to Powhatan, found him absent.
While he was sent for, Pocahontas and her
female attendants entertained him with a
fantastic dance. Smith and his men had
made fire on smooth field and were seat
ed on a mat when suddenly the mos,
terrific shouts and shrieks burst from the
neighboring wood! The English were so
startled, that they snatched up their arms,
and seized two CIR three old Indians that
sat by them-fearng that Powhatan with
all his force had come upon them but Po-
cahontas approaching them, pledged her
life that no injury was intended. On this
80 Indian girls issued from the wood they
were naked except girdle ofgreen leaves;
their bodies were painted in various col
ours their leader wore pair of white
buck horns on her head and an ottcr's skin
at her girdle, with another on her arm; o.
yer her shoulder was hung culver of ar
rows, and in her hand she held bow and
an arrow.-The-next of the company held
in her hand sword-another club-an-
other pot stick, all wearing horns. The
rest Of this motley chorus were decked out
in different ways. These furies, with de-
moniac shouts and cries, rushing from o.
mong the trees, formed themselves in cir
Gle round the fire, singing and dancing in
wild disorder sometimes bursting out in
to tho most passionate EXPLANATIONS, and
then solemnly joining in the song and
dance. Having thus passed an hour they
retired, and after making thei: prepare
tons, they gravely invited Smith to their
houses, where as soon as he entered he
was tormented worse than ever by these
wood-nymphs, who crowded and hung a.
! bout him, mos. approximately crying dom
J---A--------a-sCl.: ~-nals.A a;1an heinz fin.
ishcd, the feast was set, consisting OF al
the savage daintics they could get; some
waited on the guests; others sung and
danced after which they conducted him
to his lodgings by the light of blazing sticks
pine.
The next mention Of Pocahontas, is her
protecting Wyf1iu bearing despaches from
Smith. - He lodged with Powhatan. From
circumstances fearing mischief, he was con-
cealed by Pocahontas, who directed his
pursners in wrong course.-Even when
Smith and Powhatan were at war, Poca-
hontas visited jamestown, and by her in
terposition, their Guarrels were reconc iled,
and the wants of furnishing colony sup
piled. Smith SAYS: Whether it were the
policy of her father thus to employ her, or
the ordinance Of God, or thto' extraordin-
ary affection to our nation, know not''-
but that of this he was sure, when her IA
Their, with all his cunning and force sought
to surprise him when attended by only Is
of his men, size came thro' rough forest
in the darkness Of night, to warn him OF his
danger with teais in her eyes, and to adj
wise him how to escape his fury-which
had Powhatan known he had certainly
slain her. TUSCARORA.
The present county Of Gloucester.