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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)--Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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he not only diverted them from surprising the fort, but procuredhis own liberty, and got himself and his company such estimationamongst them, that those savages admired him more than their ownquiyouckafoucks. The manner how they used and delivered him,is as followeth. Smith and Savages The savages having drawn from George Cassen whitherCaptain Smith was gone, prosecuting that opportunity they followedhim with three hundred bow-men, conducted by the King of Pamaun-kee, who, in divisions, searching the turnings of the river, foundRobinson and Emry by the fire-side, those they shot full of arrowsand slew. Then finding the captain, as is said, that used the savagethat was his guide as his shield (three of them being slain and diversothers so galled), all the rest would not come near him. Thinkingthus to have returned to his boat, regarding them as he marchedmore than his way, slipped up to the middle in an oozy creek, andhis savage with him; yet durst they not come to him, till being near
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DECIDING SMITHS FATE The savages discuss the matter of putting him to death Jamestown Settlement 91 dead with cold he threw away his arms; then according to their com-position, they drew him forth and led him to the fire, where his menwere slain: diligently they chafed his benumbed limbs. He demanding for their Captain, they shewed him Opechanka-nough, King of Pamaunkee, to whom he gave a round ivory doublecompass dial. Much they marvelled at the playing of the fly andneedle which they could see so plainly, and yet not touch it, becauseof the glass that covered them. But when he demonstrated by thatglobe-like jewel, the roundness of the earth and skies, the sphere ofthe sun, moon and stars, and how the sun did chase the night roundthe world continually, the greatness of the land and sea, the diversityof nations, variety of complexions, and how we were to them antip-odes, and many other such like matters, they all stood as amazedwith admiration. Notwithstanding, within an hour after th

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