Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-25
The True Romance of Pocahontas.

In Dr. Edward Eggleston's paper, entitled ''The Beginning of a Nation" in the Novem- Der Century (the first of his series of illus trated articles on the history of life in the thirteen colonies) a description of the first English settlement is given, including the following account of the romantic life of Po- cahontas:
 From her frat meeting with Smith she be- came devotedly attached to the English and rendered the settlers many services. She often secured supplies for them, and indsed seems to have haunted the fort, utterly naked as she was, after the manner of little girls among her people, who wore no clothes and showed no modesty until they were twelve or thirteen years of age, at which time they put on deerskin apron, and were very careful not to be seen without it. The agile little barbarian would persuade the English lads to make wheels of themselves by turning upon their hands and feet, whereupon she would follow them, wheeling as they did, all through the fort.
 Her real name WAS Matoax; but by order of Powhatan, this was carefully concealed from the whites, lest by their supernatural entertainments they should work her some harm. When Richard Wytfiu was sent from Jamestown to apprise the endangered Cap tain Smith, environed by foes among Pow hatan's people, of the death of his deputy, Mr Scrivener, and his ten companions, by drowning, Pocahontas hid him, misdirected those who sought him, and, by extraordinary bribes and maneuvers, brought him safely to Smith, after three days travel in the midst of extreme peril. So, also, when Radcliffe was cut off with thirty men, she saved the 1 lad Spilman, who was then living with Pow hatan, and sent him to the Potomacs. But l the most touching story of all precedes in or der of time the other two. In ths same diff | fcult adventure among Powhatan's people, in which Captain Smith engaged when ! Scrivener was drowned, the treacherous chief
 had arranged to surprise Smith at supper, l and cut off the whole party, when Pocahon | tas, the "dearest jewel and daughter of the l aged chief, 'in that dark night came through | the irksome woods" to warn the captain o1 l Powhatan's design. Captain Smith offered tc repay her kindness with such trinkets as the | heart of an Indian maiden delights in 'but l with the tears running down her checks she ! said she durst not be seen to have any, for
 if Powhatan should know is, she were bu dead and so she ran away by herself as sh' l came"
 In 1613 Pocahontas was among the Poto I mac Indians. Captain Argall, & man of mucl ! shrewdness and executive force, but infamou
 for his dishonest practices, happened to b
 trading in the river at the time. He quickl.
 saw the advantage the English would gail
 in negotiations with Powhatan for the returl
 of the white prisoners held by him, if h
 could secure valuable 8 hostage tn
 chiefs daughter. With copper kettle h l bribed Japazaws, the chief with whom sh
 was staying, to entice her on board the yes
 sel where he detained her, much to the so,
 row of the daughter of the wilderness
 whose life hitherto had been as free as tha ! of the wild creatures of the woods. T
 Jamestown, where she had frolicked as
 ohild and whither she had so often come 8
 friend with food, she was now carried as a
 enemy and prisoner. She had refused t
 enter the town since the departure of Oar
 tain Smith.
 This transaction, not very creditable to tt
 gratitude of the English, accomplished it