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3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "They did like none of my proffers, but made divers shott at uss in the pynnasse."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He had had his trials the same daie of his retourne, says Wingfield,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smith's account of the episode is substantially the same. In his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True Relation he says on his return to the fort"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Map of Virginia, the Oxford ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Historie Smith says the fire happened after the return of the expedition of Newport, Smith, and Scrivener to the Pamunkey:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Good Master Hunt, our Preacher, lost all his library, and all he had but the clothes on his back; yet non... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Smyth, in the time of our hungar, had spread a rumor in the Collony, that I did feast myself and my servants out of the comon stoare, with entent (as I gathered) to have stirred the discontented company against me. I told him privately, in Mr. Gosnold's tent, that indeede I ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do believe him the first and only practiser in these practices, and he attributed Smith's hostility to the fact that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He charges that Newport delayed his return to England on account of this gold fever, in order to load his vessel (whi... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True Relation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was sent to the mouth of the river, to Kegquoughtan [now Hampton], an Indian Towne, to trade for corn, and try the river for fish."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Historie. After the lapse of fifteen years Smith is able to remember more details, and to conceive himself as the one efficient man who had charge of everything outside the fort, and to represent his dealings with the Indians in a much more heroic and summary manner. He ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The True Relation,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Gentleman of the Colony, and an apology appears signed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "T. H.,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The True Relation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The True Relation were omitted is possible. There is internal evidence of this in the abrupt manner in which it opens, and in the absence of allusions to the discords during the voyage and on the arrival. Captain Smit... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In describing to him the territories of Europe which was subject to our great King whose subject I was, the innumerable multitude of his ships, I gave him to understand the noyse of Trumpets and terrible manner of fighting were under Captain Newport my father, whom I intituled t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Decem.--The 10th of December, Mr. Smyth went up the ryver of the Chechohomynies to trade for corne; he was desirous to see the heade of that river; and, when it was not passible with the shallop, he hired a cannow and an Indian to carry him up further. The river the higher grew ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The next voyage he proceeded so farre that with much labour by cutting of trees in sunder he made his passage, but when his Barge could passe no farther, he left her in a broad bay out of danger of shot, commanding none should go ashore till his returne; himselfe with 2 English ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True Relation is not incorporated in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "General Historie. This is the more remarkable because it was an original statement, written when the occurrences it describes were fresh, and is much more in detail regarding many things that hap... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pilgrimage, in 1613, from material furnished him by Smith. The Oxford tract was also republished by Purchas in his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pilgrimes, extended by new matter in manuscript supplied by Smith. The"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pilgr... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But his waking mind in hydeous dreames did oft see wondrous shapes Of bodies strange, and huge in growth, and of stupendious makes."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His relation of the plenty he had scene, especially at Werawocomoco, and of the state and bountie of Powhatan (which till that time was unknowne), so revived their dead spirits (especially the love of Pocahontas) as all men's feare was abandoned."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He sang the wandering moon, and the labors of the Sun; From whence the race of men and flocks; whence rain and lightning; Of Arcturus, the rainy Hyades, and the twin Triones; Why the winter suns hasten so much to touch themselves in the ocean, And what delay retards the slow nig... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The club of the emperor was still uplifted; but pity had touched his bosom, and his eye was every moment losing its fierceness; he looked around to collect his fortitude, or perhaps to find an excuse for his weakness in the faces of his attendants. But every eye was suffused wit... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The spectacle of Pocahontas in an attitude of entreaty, with her hair loose, and her eyes streaming with tears, supplicating with her enraged father for the life of Captain Smith when he was about to crush the head of his prostrate victim with a club, is a situation equal to the... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True Relation, Smith gives some account of his exploration of the Pamunkey River, which he sometimes calls the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Youghtamand,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So fat they fed him that he much doubted they intended to sacrifice him to the Quiyoughquosicke, which is a superior power they worship: a more uglier thing cannot be described. These savages buried their dead with great sorrow and weeping, and they acknowledge no resurrection. ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Emperor, prepared to visit him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A great coyle there was to set him forward, says Smith. Mr. Scrivener and Captain Smith, and a guard of thirty or forty, accompanied him. On this expedition they found the mouth of the Pamaunck (now York)... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "says Smith,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True Relation occurs the first mention of Pocahontas. Smith says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Powhatan, understanding we detained certain Salvages, sent his daughter, a child of tenne years old, which not only for feature, countenance, and proportion much exceeded... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "took passage. Captain Nelson probably carried Smith's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "True Relation."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smith's Isles,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This miracle drew a great part of the King's people to behold them, nearly all of whom died shortly afterward. These people spoke the language of Powhatan. Smith explored the bays, isles, and islets, searching for harbors and places of habitation. He was a born explorer and geog... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Limbo."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the discharge of the firearms and the echo in the forest so appeased their fury that they threw down their bows, exchanged hostages, and kindly used the strangers. The Indians told him that Powhatan had commanded them to betray them, and the serious charge is added that Powh... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The arm and shoulder swelled so much, and the torment was so great, that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our order, says Smith,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When it was over the Susquesahanocks, in a fervent manner, held up their hands to the sun, and then embracing the Captain, adored him in like manner. With a furious manner and"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The picture of one of these chiefs is given in De Bry, and described by Strachey,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "repaired the church and the storehouse, got ready the buildings for the supply expected from England, reduced the fort to a"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which must be carried over unknown mountains before it reached the South Sea, he could not understand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As for the coronation of Powhatan and his presents of basin and ewer, bed, bedding, clothes, and such costly novelties, they had been... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now was there no way, asks Smith,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but by direction from England to perform this discovery and coronation,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Having reaccommodated themselves, they solemnly invited him to their lodgings, where he was no sooner within the house, but all these Nymphs more tormented him than ever, with crowding, pressing, and hanging about him, most tediously crying, 'Love you not me? Love you not me?' T... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If your king has sent me present, I also am a king, and this is my land: eight days I will stay to receive them. Your father is to come to me, not I to him, nor yet to your fort, neither will I bite at such a bait; as for the Monacans, I can revenge my own injuries."
},
{
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Smith calls the fort, everybody who had money or goods made all he could by trade; soldiers, sailors, and savages were agreed to barter, and there was more care to maintain their damnable and private trade than to provide the things necessary for the colony. In a few weeks th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First Family of Virginia,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Warraskogack,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have seen the death of all my people thrice, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He wanted to leave his brothers and sisters in peace. He heard that Smith came to destroy his country. He asked him what good it would do to destroy them that provided his food, to... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For Pocahuntas his dearest jewele and daughter in that dark night came through the irksome woods, and told our Captaine good cheer should be sent us by and by; but Powhatan and all the power he could make would after come and kill us all, if they that brought it could not kill u... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Historie,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smith now proposed to Paspahegh to spare his life if he would induce Powhatan to send back the renegade Dutchmen. The messengers for this purpose reported that the Dutchmen, though not detained by Powhatan, would not come, and the Indians said they could not bring them on their ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ere midnight his brother returned with the pistol, but the poor savage in the dungeon was so smothered with the smoke he had made, and so piteously burnt, that we found him dead. The other most lamentably bewailed his death, and broke forth in such bitter agonies, that the Presi... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The hogs were transferred to Hog Isle, where another block house was built and garrisoned, and the garrison were permitted to take"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tockwhogh root, and with the fish and these wild fruits they lived very well. But there were one hundred and fifty of the colony who would rather starve or eat each other than help gather food. These"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "would have sold anything they had--t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "they were almost starved and beaten nearly to death. After amusing himself with them, Kemps returned the fugitives, whom Smith punished until they were content to labor at home, rather than adventure to live idly among the savages,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "says... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as he says. The next day a gale from the northeast made him fear being driven aground in the shallows, and he put to sea. The storm continued for several days. On the 21st"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and that night something more ominous occurred:"
},
{
"f... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To a thousand mischiefs these lewd Captains led this lewd company, wherein were many unruly gallants, packed thither by their friends to escape ill destinies, and those would dispose and determine of the government, sometimes to one, the next day to another; today the old commis... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Smith calls West and his associates, refused to move to Powhatan or to accept these conditions. They contemned his authority, expecting all the time the new commission, and, regarding all the Monacans' country as full of gold, determined that no one should interfere with them... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Historie the company of Ratcliffe and Archer was a disorderly rabble, constantly tormenting the Indians, stealing their corn, robbing their gardens, beating them, and breaking into their houses and taking them prisoners. The Indians daily complained to the President that... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Historie :"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, as at many other times, we are beholden to Capt. Henry Spilman, an interpreter, a gentleman that lived long time in this country, and sometimes a prisoner among the Salvages, and done much good service though bu... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Historie says that on this occasion"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pocahuntas saved a boy named Henry Spilman that lived many years afterward, by her means, among the Patawomekes."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ships were detained three weeks to get up proofs of his ill-conduct --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "says Smith, dryly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Historie"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What shall I say but this, we left him, that in all his proceedings made justice his first guide, and experience his second, ever hating baseness, sloth, pride, and indignity, more than any dangers; that upon no danger would send them where he would not lead them himself; that w... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps you shall have it blamed as a mutinie by such as retaine old malice, but Master West, Master Piercie, and all the respected gentlemen of worth in Virginia, can and will testify otherwise upon their oaths. For the King's patent we ratified, but refused to be governed by t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General Historie says that he left them"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jamestown was also strongly palisaded and contained some fifty or sixty houses; besides there were five or six other forts and plantations,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "General His... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "President Percy was so sick he could neither go nor stand. Provisions getting short, West and Ratcliffe went abroad to trade, and Ratcliffe and twenty-eight of his men were slain by an ambush of Powhatan's, as before related in the narrative of Henry Spelman. Powhatan cut off th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sommers Isles, which was gradually corrupted into"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Summer Isles. These islands of Bermuda had ever been accounted an enchanted pile of rocks and a desert inhabitation for devils, which the navigator and mariner avoided as Scylla and ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "against the immoralities of the theatres, those"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and calling down the judgment of God upon the cost and the monstrosities of the dress of both men and women; while the town roared on its way, warned by sermons, and instructed in its chos... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Map of Virginia"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Theatrum Orbis Terarum"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "New England"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and is prefaced by an address to the King's Council for all the plantations, and another to all the adventurers into New England. The addresses, as usual, c... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cape Tragabigzanda ; the three islands in front of it, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three Turks' Heads ; and the Isles of Shoals he simply describes:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smyth's Isles are a heape together, none neare them, against Accon... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have not [he says] been so ill bred but I have tasted of plenty and pleasure, as well as want and misery; nor doth a necessity yet, nor occasion of discontent, force me to these endeavors; nor am I ignorant that small thank I shall have for my pains; or that many would have th... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Flowers"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One of their prizes was a sugar caraval from Brazil; another was a West Indian worth two hundred thousand crowns, which had on board fourteen coffers of wedges of silver, eight thousand royals of eight, and six coffers of the King of Spain's treasure, besides the pillage and ric... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oft thou hast led, when I brought up the Rere, In bloody wars where thousands have been slaine."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For mee: I not commend but much admire Thy England yet unknown to passers by-her, For it will praise itselfe in spight of me: Thou, it, it, thou, to all posteritie."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He spent that summer in the west of England, visiting"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bristol, Exeter, Bastable? Bodman, Perin, Foy, Milborow, Saltash, Dartmouth, Absom, Pattnesse, and the most of the gentry in Cornwall and Devonshire, giving them books and maps,"
}... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "New England's Trials --by which he meant the various trials and attempts to settle New England was published in 1620. It was to some extent a repetition of his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Description of 1616. In it he made no reference to Pocahontas. But in the ed... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These are some of the considerations by which he urges the company to fit out an expedition for him:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trials. And in the hodge-podge compilation from himself and others, which he had put together shortly after,--the"
},
{
"from":... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This nineteen years, he writes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have encountered no few dangers to learn what here I write in these few leaves:... their fruits I am certain may bring both wealth and honor for a crown and a kingdom to his majesty's posterity. With 5,... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems God is angry to see Virginia in hands so strange where nothing but murder and indiscretion contends for the victory."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The colony would have been much better off"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who can desire, he exclaims,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then who would live at home idly, he exhorts his countrymen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I would be sorry to offend, or that any should mistake my honest meaning: for I wish good to all, hur... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All this they divided in twenty parts, for which they cast lots, but no lot for me but Smith's Isles, which are a many of barren rocks, the most overgrown with shrubs, and sharp whins, you can hardly pass them; without either grass or wood, but three or four short shrubby old ce... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True Travels,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I first went to the North part of Virginia, where the Westerly Colony had been planted, it had dissolved itself within a year, and there was not one Christian in all the land. I was set forth at the sole charge of four merchants of London; the Country being then reputed by ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sea Grammar. In 1626 he published"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An Accidence or the Pathway to Experience, necessary to all Young Seamen, and in 1627"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Sea Grammar, with the plain Exposition of Smith's Accidence for Young... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "contains the wild romance with which this volume opens, and is pieced out with recapitulations of his former writings and exploits, compilations from others' relations, and general comments. We have given from it the story of his early life, because there is absolutely no other ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New England, or anywhere. Or, the Pathway to Experience to erect a Plantation. With the yearly proceedings of this country in fishing and planting since the year 1614 to the year 1630, and their present estate. Also, how to preven... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The wars in Europe, Asia and Africa, taught me how to subdue the wild savages in Virginia and New England. He never did subdue the wild savages in New England, and he never was in any war in Africa, nor in Asia, unless we call his piratical cruising in the Mediterranean"
},
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John Smith writ this with his owne hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "General Historie of 1624 he adopts, for the account of his career in Virginia, the narratives in the Oxford tract of 1612, which he had supervised. We have seen how he interpolated the wonderful ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "showed little more originality. It was a common device before his day: on many coats of arms of the Middle Ages and later appear"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Encyclopedia of Heraldry gives it as granted to Capt. John Smith, of the Smiths of Cruffley, Co. Lancaster, in 1629, and describes it:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vert, a chev. gu. betw. three Turks' heads couped ppr. turbaned or. Crest-an Ostrich or, holding in t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That he was pinched for means of living, there is no doubt. In 1623 he issued a prospectus of his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "General Historie, in which he said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These observations are all I have for the expenses of a t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Survey of London,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moors' heads,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Departed this life September.... ....sixty-six ....years.... ....months ...."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Admiral of New England in this church, and a memorial window, commemorating the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Baptism of Pocahontas,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No lot for me but Smith's Isles, which are an array of barren rocks, the most overgrowne with shrubs and sharpe whins you can hardly passe them: without either grasse or wood but three or foure short shrubby old cedars."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of the W... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in Hungary, Fuller says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The scene whereof is laid at such a distance that they are cheaper credited than confuted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From the Turks in Europe he passed to the pagans in America, where towards ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he was in advance of his age. He was an advocate of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "before the term was invented. In his advice given to the New England plantation in his"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Advertisements"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was great talk about Christianizing the Indians; but the colonists in Virginia taught them chiefly the corruptions of civilized life, and those who were despatched to England soon became debauched by London vices."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Much they blamed... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The True Relation, written by Captain Smith in Virginia in 1608. In this narrative, as our readers have seen, she is not referred to until after Smith's return from the captivity in which Powhatan used him"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the afternoon they [the friends of the prisoners] being gone, we guarded them [the prisoners] as before to the church, and after prayer, gave them to Pocahuntas the King's Daughter, in regard of her father's kindness in sending her: after having well fed them, as all the time... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Map of Virginia, and is Smith's denial, already quoted, of his intention to marry Pocahontas. In this passage he speaks of her as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If she was thirteen or fourteen in 1609, when Smith left Virginia, she must have been more than ten when h... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britanica, &c., gathered and observed as well by those who went first thither, as collected by William Strachey, gent., three years thither, employed as Secretaire of State. How long he remained in Virginia is uncertain, but it could not ha... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Travaile"
}
] |
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