Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ater. Newport came with orders from the London Council to bring homea lump of gold, to discover the passage to the South Sea, and . r> T T . f»i T-» 1/^1 TT1 1 Coionation to lind the survivors ot the Koanoke Colony. He brought of Pow- with him also some costly novelties, as a basin, a ewer, a bed and some clothes for Powhatan, with directions to bestow the 288 FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA. (Chap. XI. ceremony of a coronation upon that naked monarch. He found neitherthe lump of gold, the passage to the Pacific, nor any of the survivorsof the Roanoke massacre ; but he crowned the savage who had, per-haps, procured the deaths of those unhappy persons. Powhatan, reminded of his royal state, declined to go to Jamestownto receive the presents when summoned thither by Smith as a specialambassador. I also am a king, he said; and if the King of Eng-land had sent him gifts, they should be brought to him; he should notgo to receive them. Newport went, and the gifts were accepted; but
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Coronation of Powhatan. the coronation was a more difficult matter. No persuasions could in-duce the chief to kneel, and it was only by bearing heavily upon hisshoulders that he^ could be made to stoop so low as to admit of theassumption that his posture was the proper one for the placing of acrown upon his head. The firing of a pistol as a signal for a volleyfrom the boats in honor of the event startled him into an attitude ofdefence with the suspicion that he was the victim of some treachery;but being presently reassured of the entire sincerity of these proceed-ings, he accepted them as an acknowledgment of his regal state, andgave his old moccasins, the deer-skin he used for a blanket, and sevenor eight bushels of corn in the ear, to the representatives of his royalbrother of England. 1608.) SERVICES OF SMITH. 289 If Captain Newport committed any errors they were errors of judg-ment, or acts done in obedience to orders from the Council at ^ 1 r> 1 T Smith scnt- home, who held hi

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