New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18

and strategy by which Smith kept tia ha1haz-
ara aggregation of ne'er-do-wels together and
maintained IN general outwardly friendly reil-
tons with the redmen- The author deYotes
some little space TO the Pocahontas incident and
30 the controversy that has arisen in regard to
It's authenticity. because Smith failed to refer
to it in bis True Relation and only told of it
in his contribution to ''Phe General History.
printed some years later. why. say the crit
les. with much plausiblity, did not Smith tel
the story of Pocahontas in his first narrative?
And they suggest that he invented the incident
to give himself Importance in tho eyes Of the
world by such a strange adventure with the
young Indian woman, whom society. with its
characteristic hysteria and Lack of proportion,
was receiving as royal parsonage" Thus
writes Mr.. Bradley. and with equal plausibilJy
proceeds TO explain that when he (Smith)
wrote "A True Relation IL was important that
intending settlers should not be frightened By
any unnecessary tales of danger" adding that
'the editor in London who published Smiths
letter distinctly states in preface TO it Some
what more by him written which being
Gas thoughD more fit 70 be private. 1 would
not advertise to make II public" The author
also emphasizes the necessity of some such oc-
currence to account for the change OF attitude
toward Smith by the Indians He had just slain
one Of the tribe and 'the Indian code absolutely
required his life in return unless II were com
muted for by some special request like that %
Pocahontas-" In this Mr.. Bradley follows the
lead Of John Fisl1e. who takes a similar position
in his Virginia and Her NeighbOrs'
Terribly injured by an explosion Of powder.
Smith was compelled to return to England. aad
devoted the rest of his life to the promotion OF
emigration. voyagins to New-En gIand-which
owes it's name to hiIn-beins captured by .ae
French and suffering ether yicissitgdes not the
least of which was the lack Of reward and rec
ognition accorded him by his contemporaries for
his accomplishments as explorer. map maker
and cOlonizer.
That Smith was at all times a model OF re-
claim ~ man so vigorous and resourcefuI
could not be, nor indeed. could one wish any
thing SO unnatural. if one may say so.
Full Of courage and rude vitality We always
think Of him. there is something pathetic in this
accomplishing and yet CHEEKY struggle against
what seems in the relation of it to be so hope
less" Yet there those who appreciated
him. and the author quotes one Of the tributes.
ECHOED from the heart Of the thirty or forty
old soldiers" who had served with him in the
Virginia Colony. when. wounded. he left it for
the last time:
What shan say but thus lost him; that in
all his proceedings made Justice his first guide and
experience his second, hating baSeress. sOth.
pride and ndignity more than any dangers; that
never allowed more for himself than his soldiers
with him: that upon no danger would send them
where he would lead them himself; that would
never what he e>her had. could BY
any means get US: that would rather want than
borrow, starve than not pay; that loved actions
than words. and hated falsehood and cuzen-
lives, and whose loss our deaths