of evill; when finding so great a Queene should doe her some honour more than shee can imagine, for being so kinde to your servants and subjects, would so ravish her with content, as endeare her dearest blood to effect that your Majestie and all the king's honest subjects most earnestlie desire.

"And so I humbly kiss your gracious hands,

"JOHN SMITH."

The singular interview which soon afterwards took place between Pocahontas and Smith (of whose death it would appear she had been falsely informed), ought also to be given in his own words:

Being about this time preparing to set saile for New Englande, I could not stay to doe her that service I desired, and shee well deserved; but hearing shee was at Branford with divers of my friendes, I went to see her. After a modest salutation, without any word, shee turned about, obscured her face as not seeming well contented; and in that humour, her husband, with divers others, wee all left her two or three houres, repenting myself to have writ shee could speake English. But, not long after, shee began to talke, and remembered mee well what courtisies shee had done, saying, You did promise Powhatan what

was yours should be his, and hee the like to you. You called him Father, being in his land a stranger, and by the same reason must I doe you.' Which, though I could have excused, I durst not allow of that title, because shee was a king's daughter. With a well set countenance shee said, ' Were you not afraid to come into my father's countrie, and caused feare in him, and all his people but mee; and feare you here I should call you Father? I tell you then I will, and you shall call mee childe, and so I will be for ever and ever your countrieman. They did tell us alwayes you were dead, and I knew no other till I came to Plimouth; yet Powhatan did command Uttamatomakin to seek you, and know the truth, because your countriemen will lie much."

In England Pocahontas was well received, and favourably noticed. She was presented at court, and met with the kindest and most affectionate treatment from persons of the first rank and station. The English ladies and gentlemen flocked to offer their services to their new countrywoman: but this Indian stranger was destined to enjoy only for a very short period their attentions and regard. Her husband having been appointed to the situation of secretary and recorder-general in Virginia, was on the point of embarking for America with Pocahontas and their son, and had repaired to Graves

end for that purpose, when she was suddenly seized with the small-pox, and, after a few days' illness, died at that place in the twenty-second year of

her age.

The fate of Pocahontas called forth in England the sympathy of all who knew how much she had done to support the cause, and save the lives, of the early British settlers in America. Her death was also deeply regretted by the old Indian king her father, who continued faithfully to keep his promise of friendship to the English. Powhatan expressed his joy that her son lived, and hoped that, after the boy should have grown up, and become strong, he would again return from beyond the great salt lake, and visit him.

After his mother's death young Rolfe remained in England to be educated under the care of an uncle. He afterwards went to Virginia, and rose to distinction and affluence in his native country. By his marriage he had a daughter, an only child, from whom have descended some of the principal families, including many highly respected individuals, of Virginia. Among the latter, it may be permitted to the compiler of these Notes to mention, with peculiar regard, the name of John Randolph of Roanoake, with whom he had the good fortune to become personally acquainted in America -one who has eminently signalized himself in the United States, during a long and stormy period

in which he has sat as a representative in Congress for his native state of Virginia, and who, highly and justly distinguished by his countrymen as an orator and a scholar, perhaps esteems himself in nothing more fortunate than that there flows in his veins the blood of Pocahontas.

ONE of the most unfortunate errors into which the early settlers of New England appear to have fallen, was their propensity to disperse themselves all over the face of the country. Instead of forming a compact body, sufficiently strong to resist with effect any serious attack from the natives, and continuing that system until they had obtained a complete knowledge of the Indian manners, habits, and prejudices, and afterwards gradually extending as from a common centre, they at once scattered themselves along the coast, and throughout the interior. The successive bodies of emigrants from the mother country seemed never disposed to plant themselves in the same district, but endeavoured to obtain rival patents, and exclusive grants of land, in dispersed and distant situations; commencing settlements which they were unable to defend, and building churches where they could not in safety gather a congregation. " They were obliged," says Dr. Trumbull, "to keep a constant watch and