ure 'tis our war-god, Aresqui himself, who lays our chiefs low! Now
they stop; he fights no longer; he stands terrible as the panther, which
the fearful hunter dares not approach. Stranger, brave stranger,
Nantaquas must know thee! [_Music._

_He rushes out, and re-enters with SMITH._

PRINCE. Art thou not then a God?

SMITH. As thou art, warrior, but a man.

PRINCE. Then art thou a man like a God; thou shalt be the brother of
Nantaquas. Stranger, my father is king of the country, and many nations
obey him: will thou be the friend of the great Powhatan?

SMITH. Freely, prince; I left my own country to be the red man's friend.

PRINCE. Wonderful man, where is thy country?

SMITH. It lies far beyond the wide water.

PRINCE. Is there then a world beyond the wide water? I thought only the
sun had been there: thou comest then from behind the sun?

SMITH. Not so, prince.

PRINCE. Listen to me. Thy country lies beyond the wide water, and from it
do mine eyes behold the sun rise each morning.

SMITH. Prince, to your sight he seems to rise from thence, but your eyes
are deceived, they reach not over the wilderness of waters.

PRINCE. Where sleeps the sun then?

SMITH. The sun never sleeps. When you see him sink behind the mountains,
he goes to give light to other countries, where darkness flies before him,
as it does here, when you behold him rise in the east: thus he chases
Night for ever round the world.

PRINCE. Tell me, wise stranger, how came you from your country across the
wide water? when our canoes venture but a little from the shore, the waves
never fail to swallow them up.

SMITH. Prince, the Great Spirit is the friend of the white men, and they
have arts which the red men know not.

PRINCE. My brother, will you teach the red men?

SMITH. I come to do it. My king is a king of a mighty nation; he is great
and good: go, said he, go and make the red men wise and happy.

_During the latter part of the dialogue, the INDIANS had crept in,
still approaching till they had almost surrounded SMITH. A burst of
savage music. They seize and bear him off, the PRINCE in vain
endeavouring to prevent it._

PRINCE. Hold! the white man is the brother of your prince; hold, coward
warriors! [_He rushes out._

SCENE V. _Powhatan River, as the first scene._

_Enter LARRY._

Now do I begin to suspect, what, to be sure, I've been ce