A Visit to the States a Reprint of Letters From the Special Correspondent of Th
A Visit to the States a Reprint of Letters From the Special Correspondent of Th
George Edward Wright
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" So little is known of its origin that much has to be imagined, and the diminutive, solemn-faced " darkey 33 who shows one about it has convinced himself that lonp before Richmond was thought of it was the resi dence of that redoubtable Virginian, old King Powhatan, who had so much to do with the early history of the " Old Dominion. " The little fellow tells us " King Po tan, ho built dis houso tree hunderd yeer c. Go. J On the wall hangs au ancient and remarkable print, representing Pow- bata...n presiding at tho execution of Captain John 240 A VISIT TO THE STATES. Smith, and to this the boy points in testimony. The magnanimous savage sits on one side of the picture, while from the other the youthful Poca- Qontas, in rather scant costume, has rushed in and laid her head upon Smith s, which had already been laid upon the block, ready to be chopped off by a bloodthirsty brave who stands alongside with a murderous-looking axe, evidently (in the picture) of British manufacture. According to all the rules of romance Pocahontas should have forthwith married Smith, but she did riot, and afterwards wedded the Englishman Rolfe, was baptised at Jamestown, and lived at Varina, just below Dutch Gap, on the river.
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