gh the
king loved her tenderly, yet he would not do any thing for her sake which
he thought was not for his own and the nation's interest; nor would he be
prevailed upon to conclude a firm treaty of peace till he heard his
daughter, who had turned a Christian, was christened Rebecca, and married
to Mr. John Rolfe, an English gentleman, her uncle giving her away in the
church.

Powhaton approved of the marriage, took it for a sincere token of
friendship, and was so pleased with it, that he concluded a league with
the English in the year 1613.

Some time after, Sir Thomas Dale going for England, took Mr. Rolfe and
his wife Pocahonta with him, and arrived at Plymouth.

Captain Smith, hearing the lady who had been so kind to him was arrived
in England, and being engaged at that time in a voyage to New England,
which hindered his waiting on her himself, petitioned queen Anne, consort
to king James, on her behalf, setting forth the civilities he had
received from her, and obligations she had laid upon the English, by the
service she had done them with her father.

The queen received this petition very graciously; and before Captain
Smith embarked for New England, Mr. Rolfe came with his wife from
Plymouth to London. The smoke of the city offending her, he took
lodgings for her at Brentford, and thither Captain Smith went with
several friends to wait on her.

Pocahonta was told all along that Captain Smith was dead, to excuse his
not coming to Virginia again; from which he had been diverted by settling
a colony in New England. Wherefore, when this lady saw him, thinking the
English had injured her in telling her a falsity, which she had ill
deserved from them, she was so angry that she would not deign to speak to
him: but at last, with much persuasion and attendance, was reconciled,
and talked freely to him: she then put him in mind of the obligations she
had laid upon him, and reproached him for forgetting her, with an air so
lively, and words so sensible, that one might have seen nature abhors
nothing more than ingratitude--a vice that even the very savages detest.

She was carried to court by the Lady Delaware, and entertained by ladies
of the first quality, towards whom she behaved herself with so much grace
and majesty, that she confirmed the bright character Captain Smith had
given of her. The whole court was charmed with the decency and grandeur
of her deportment so much, that the poor gentleman, her husband, w