Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd as it was now too late to raise it,Smith exerted himself to obtain it from theIndians, He purchased a supply, and towardsthe close of the autumn the wild fowl whichfrequent the region furnished an additionalmeans of subsistence. Danger of Famine. The danger of a famine thus removed.Smith proceeded to explore the country. Inone of these expeditions he ascended therhickahominy as far as he could penetratein his boat, and then leaving it in charge oftwo men, struck into the interior with anIndian guide. His men disobeyed his in-,structions, and were surprised and put totdeath by the Indians. Smith himself wastaken prisoner, and deeply impressed hiscaptors by his cool courage and self-posses-sion. Instead of begging for his life, he setto work to convince them of his superiorityover them, and succeeded so well that theyregarded him with a sort of awe. He aston-ished them by showing them his pocket com-pass and explaining to them its uses, andexcited their admiration by writing a letter
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78 POCAHONTAS INTERCED*^. *®* ^^HK UFE OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH AND POCAHONTAS. 79 fc hJs friends at Jamestown informing themof his situation, and of the danger to whichthey were exposed from a contemplatedattack of the Indians. One of the savagesbore the letter to its destination. A Grand Reception. Smith had been captured by Opechan-canough,a powerful chieftain of the Pamun-key Indians: but as the curiosity of theneighboring tribes was greatly aroused byhis presence, he was led in triumph from theChickahominy to the villages on the Rappa-hannock and the Potomac, and then takenthrough other towns to the residence ofOpechancanough, on the Pamunkey. H^rethe medicine men of the tribe held a threedays incantation over him to ascertain hischaracter and design. All this while his de-meanor was calm and fearless, as if he enter-tained no apprehension for his safety. Hewas regarded by the savages as a superiorbeing, and was treated with kindness, thoughkept a close prisoner

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