Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-27
says there were only four. These passages
,inlicafa that the enisode of Pocahonfas was

SlnuIeate that the EPISODE or ROcahontaS was
an after thought. Not only does he make
no mention of her in his first narrativeIor
in his second. buthis account of the treat
ment he received from her father precludes
the possibility OF the action for which she
is now renowned. He was treated with the
utmost kindness and speedily released
Other similar discrepancies and exaggera-
'tions are found in his works. " The same
character of exaggeration," says the re-
viewer, marks the whole account of the
treatment he received among the savages.
According to the story, written a few
months after the event, a people described,
savage. 1t is true, but neither cruel or blood
thirsty; reckless, perhaps, of life in battle,
but kind; and even magnanimous, toward
their captive. 1t is expressly stated that no
such demonstration. was made against
Smith as that which, in 1924, is affirmed to
have taken place within an hour after his
capture. Only a few days after he was
taken prisoner ne represents himself as CIV
ing orders to Opechankanought to take him
to Powbatan, and even at this time he knew
that he was to be allowed to go to James
town. To him told l must go, and so re-
turn to Paspabegh.n' g.-f,:sa-.1 .,.rt -, -fi~
The writings of other authors confirm
this new theory. Wingfield's Discourse
of Virginia. the earliest written record of
the Virginia colony, mentions Smiths trip,
his adventures, the conspiracy to depose.
and execute him on his return. But he is
silent about Pocahontas. Strachey's :: His
torie OF TraYaile into Virginia" published
in 1916, contains a full account OF Smith.
and has some curious references to Poca-
hontas, but there is no hint of her agency
in saving the bold Captains life. In 1914,
Raphe HamOr, "late Secretarie of the Col 4
Onie,n published volume in which there
was: an elaborate description of the capture
and christening of PocahOntaS.4 1t con-
Itaips letter from John Rolfe, Poe ihontas'
hop il
writer of her celebrated girlish exploit.
jStraehey gives this curious peep at Poca-
hohtas, before she sprang, clad in shining
robe, into the pages OF our colonial history II
80 sPOcahuntas, a we'll featured but WantonI
young girle. Powhatans daughter, some
tymes 9. nI resortlng TO our Iors OF tne me- age tnen
OF eleven or Twelve. yeares, WouId SeC the
boyes forth with her into the markett place,
and make them Wheele, ialling on thelr
hanus, turning up tnetr neeiSs upWaros,
,Ypome sne W0ulu IoIloWe any Wneete SO
ner sells naAeu as olo " "a ae' az Cie totC ofet.
AiCer Ine seizure y: .S ~, as nTs
GaSe e con ~ Sit ieSiIS tS @ eto
,io,, MenC S % +h ptnchos node IL noint
nHGSaptS d,oH az II ttt ~ he
vf,;o;s Hs cow Sn,;tI,
pit" ond othorS Vet be tor faiIad IT,
11sht Of Pacsbof1as, Iberoic deed! Indeed. |
stSa ,vae1 IN hiar CRAVE fhaf,re the legend |
h;.t,1 rlo S6or rnoemoru iIlt1strio,ie for
tun cpufnriaS was first nuhliShed -GsE |
Satin s.ot 1o,,lryfaiIu,l as rnlonizer and |
,,,s"l lSeI,oseT arS sent >ito 5EnoIand" nn1ier
serions p.6a roes INIT he stteryy5 ri taiIe1l to
ohtai~9 the femnIo9ment as a colonizer |
which he continued TO seek with unreIaxed |
enere0. :. When the massacre of 'Jamestown
occ,,TTed. he AGAIN offered his services. but
fr,s,,i,,,,sr, dnciinad = Still sayss the writer
he had the resonrce left of which he had
already made such freouen at use, and by /
nIhIisbino the General Historic ne n1a,je /