CHAPTER I. 



THE NEW LAND AND THE NEW RACE 



WHEN Columbus and his companions set 

 out across the unknown western ocean to 

 find a pathway to the far East, they discovered 

 a new continent inhabited by a new race. Of 

 both these facts they were, at the time, ignorant. 

 The lands found, they considered must be the far 

 outposts of India, and therefore the people in 

 habiting them must be &quot; Indians,&quot; and as Indians 

 they have been known, and described, from that 

 day to this. 



An ancient register of a parish Church at Record 16 &quot;* 

 Gravesend contains this entry: *&quot; March 2j, 

 Rebecca Wrothe, wyff of Thomas Wrothe, gent, 

 a Virginian lady born, here was buried in ye 

 Chauncel.&quot; 



In Rebecca the wife of Thomas Wrothe, 

 &quot;Virginian lady born,&quot; buried in the &quot;Ye 

 Chauncel&quot; we have, it is supposed, none other 

 than Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan 

 and the saviour of Captain John Smith, one of ftPo? 25th&amp;gt; 

 the company of adventurers, who, under the 

 protection of a royal charter, landed on Virginian 

 soil, in Chesapeake Bay, and founded Jamestown 

 at the mouth of James River. 



Pocahontas, betrayed for a copper kettle, was 



*For all quotations see Bibliography, page 283. 



