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Identifier: indianhistoryfor00drak (find matches)
Title: Indian history for young folks
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885 Dowd, Francis Joseph, 1876-
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Wars
Publisher: New York London : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s the cause of your jealousy ? You see us un-armed, and willing to supply your wants if you will come in a friendlymanner, and not with guns and swords as to invade an enemy. I am notso simple as not to know it is better to eat good meat, lie well, and sleepquietly, to laugh and be merry with the English, and being their friend, tohave copper, hatchets, and whatever else I want, than to fly from all, tolie cold in the woods, feed upon acorns, roots, and such trash, and to be sohunted that I cannot rest, eat, or sleep, unless in this miserable manner toend my miserable life; and, Captain Smith, this might be your fate too,through your rashness and unadvisedness. I, therefore, entreat you topeaceable counsels, and, above all, I insist that the guns and swords, thecause of all our jealousy and uneasiness, be removed and sent away. Smith rightly interpreted this cunning speech exactly contrary to whatit expressed, and it confirmed rather than lessened his former suspicions VIRGINIA 99 y V
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CAPTAIN SMITH SUBDUING THE CHIEF. that the wily chief sought an opportunity to destroy them. At length,finding all artifices vain, Powhatan resolved to fall upon the English intheir cabins in the night. From this peril they were saved by Pocahontas,who came alone to Jamestown, in a dismal night, through the woods, and

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