Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-01

harmless, and in retaliation for the scare
he had given Us treated him with some
indirnities. We broke OF his tueks, at
tempted TO pull out his eyes, and strip
ned him OF his garment OF shells. Lane
was not satisfied until he seated himseit
astride the neck Of the monster, where,
holding on by the horns, he exclaimed :
" Bonsts 81 crates D,dboius un vinrf.
Lane is q scholar, aud says this is Chal-
daic, meaning 1.-The good and great fear
not the devil.
THE TOMB OF KINGS.
This statue stood about six feet from
the side OF the cave. Behind il we dis
covered an arched doorway, and this we
concluded to follow. About 100 yards
further on we entered another but some
what smaller chamber. The first thing
TO attract our attention was the snowy
appearance OF the floor. The fine white
sand was as hard and as compact as mar
BILE. The walls and ceiling were covered
with conch and other shells OF snowy
whitencss or beautifully tinted. 1t was
a palace OF pearl but soon we found that
it was also charnel-house. On stone
tables, and in inches in the walls, hun
dreds OF skeletons were seen. We did
not lose much time in the examination
OF these repulsive objects. At one side
of this apartment there was q stone
dais, approached by three steps,
on which was a chair or bench, also OF
stone. Back of this was an arched open
1o1 of hone
or ivory, on which were several copper
rings. Passing through this opening we
entered a circular room, about fifteen
feet in diameter, and here saw a skeleton
living on table of hevn granite. There
were many other articles piled on the
table with the bones. Among them we
found stone tomahawks and arow-heads,
bow of ivory, rusty cutlass, many
strings of beads, and at the foot the skele-
ton OF a dog. The only article we
thought of sufficient value to bring away
was large clay pipe with silver band ~,
around it. on which was engraved " 10
the Puissant Warrior and Mighty POten-
tate, Powhatan. From his trusty brother,
| Sir Thomas Dale.
On looking at our watches we now
found that it was 5 o'clock in the after
noon. We had been walking nearly ten
hours. and were tired and hungry. Only
q few of the numerous caverns had been
explored, but we concluded to return
and pursue the investigation at another
time. On the way back we had occasion
TO congratulate Brsddenh0m on his fore
sight in furnishing a guide. Without
the string we would not have been en-
abled TO have found our way through the
labyrinth of passages. When we emerged
from the opening into daylight we expe-
rienced a feeling of relief. but Devil
dering sense of having passed the hours
in dreamland.
An extract from the writings of Cap
tain John Smith, as published, may APP
propriately close this account OF our dis
coyeries. In Voyages and Dissolve
ries," speaking of the Indians, he says
But their chief God they worship Is the
Diyiil. Him they call oke, aud serve MIN more
| Of feare than love. Ia tnolr tcIIi,
md then painted and adorned with chains
copper, and beads: and covered with ssin In
| such manner as the defOrmity may well sun
| with such God. -.,
1
| ton is at Cttamussack. Upon the top OF GER
taine redde sandy hills in the woods, there are
| three great houses filled with Images OF then
| Kings and DEVILS and Tofabes Of Their tTeaeces'
sors This place they count 90 holy as that none
| but the Priestes and Kings dare come unto theIn
! nor tho Salvages dare not go up tho river III
boates by Il, but that they solemnly cast some
| piece Of copper, white beads, or Pocones inc
! he river. Tor feare their Oke should be offended
and revenged OF them. They have also dlVer'
combinations. One they made when captain
Smith was their prisoner"
Again. after briefly relating the Incl
dent OF his rescue by Pocahontas, Cap
tain Smith, in his General History, says
1.-TWO days after, Powhatan having disguised
| hlmselfin the most fearefullest manner he could
caused Captain Smith 10 be brought forth 70
great house in the woods, and there upon ma
by the FIRE 70 be left alone. Not long after, iron
behind mat that divided tho house was mad'
the most dolefullest noyse he ever heard; thet
| PoThetan, more like a Divill than man, wiz
| some two hundred more ~ black as hlusete
came unto him and told him, now they were
| friends, and presently he should goe 10 lam l
towne, to send him two create gunnes and
| gryndstone for which he would give MIN th'
Country Of Cepahowsck. and forever esieen'
him a. his son Nantaquoud.'
This is the valiant soldiers short anC
modest account of the strange ceremo
MES by which he was adopted IS the SOL
of Powhatan. The full story may have
been written by him, but the friend t.
whose discretion he committed the publ
cation OF his writings foresaw with pro
phetic ken that scoffers in the nineteenth
century would charge the hero as lyint
braggart, and he wisely withheld it from
the world. The mysteries OF the cavern
have been as sealed book for nearl,
three hundred years, and on the lst da.
Of April, Ammo Domini 1888, the seal hal
been broken and the way has beef
opened to the temple Of Oke and tn
tombs Of royal line. d. {. K.