Part 4 (1/2)

Soland, took Mr Rolfe and his wife Pocahonta with hi the lady who had been so kind to hied at that ti on her hi Ja forth the civilities he had received frolish, by the service she had done them with her father

The queen received this petition very graciously; and before Captain Sland, Mr Rolfe came with his wife fro her, he took lodgings for her at Brentford, and thither Captain Smith ith several friends to wait on her

Pocahonta was told all along that Captain Sain; froland Wherefore, when this lady saw hi her a falsity, which she had ill deserved fron to speak to him: but at last, with much persuasion and attendance, was reconciled, and talked freely to hiations she had laid upon hi her, with an air so lively, and words so sensible, that one ratitude-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 whorace and ht character Captain Siven of her The whole court was charrandeur of her deportentleman, her husband, was threatened to be called to an account for h in that king Jacraft, for there was no likelihood that Mr Rolfe, by er the peace of his do of Wico of Great-Britain; indeed, we are told, that upon a fair and full representation of thewas pleased to be satisfied

The lady Pocahonta, having been entertained with all land, was taken ill at Gravesend, where she lay in order to ens of a sincere Christian and true penitent

She had one son by Mr Rolfe, whose posterity are at this day in good repute in Virginia, and inherit lands by descent froe of the Indians is lofty, but narrow; the accent and ereat and sweet, as Okorocston, Rancoce, Oriston, Shakameton, Poquiffin, all names of places, and as sonorous as any in Attica; then for sweetness they have their _anna_, mother, _issiood, _pone_, bread, _-place, _scaw_, a woman, _salop_, a man, _pappoes_, a child

The captains acquainted Mr Carew, that the unfriendly Indians were not the only enereat dangers and difficulties, as rattle-snakes, horn-snakes, black-snakes, lions, leopards, bears, wolves, and wild cats However this did not dishearten our hero, for he was resolved to atte his liberty, let the consequence be what it would The captains then gave him a pocket-co of cakes, a cheese, and so him, he must leave the three-notched road a little way off, and steer to his left hand; (in Maryland they distinguish the roads by letters or notches cut on the trees;) that he ht, and lie concealed in the day, for forty miles, and then he would come to a part of the country quite uninhabited; from thence he would enter the Indian country They likewise told him, that all the wild beasts were afraid of fire, so that his best defence would be to strike a light and kindle so attacked by any of the received these and soenerous benefactorstheerous journey about three o'clock in the afternoon He had not travelled far, before he began to reflect on his melancholy condition, alone, unaralled with the heavy yoke, exposed every ht approaching with all its horrors, increased its terrors; his ears were now assailed with the dis of wild beasts of different sorts, but, re the instructions he had received from the captains, he soon struck fire, and kindled so a fireband round his head; the sight of which kept the wild beasts froh they often ca the fire

However it ith great joy he saw day-light appear, at first dawn of which he was quite freed fro to do but to seek the thickest tree he could find, and, cli up into it, he took so travelled hard all night He afterwards eat sparingly of his cheese and biscuit, fearing they et a fresh supply, and then took a very large dra his spirits ain, travelling in the sa round his head In thishimself by day, he went on four days, when he reached the Blue Mountains, where he thought hi stopped for want of a pass He now travelled by day, reat multitudes of buffaloes, black bears, deer, wolves, and wild turkeys, the latter being so large as to weigh thirty or forty pounds; none of these creatures offered to attack hi one day on the side of a sht, he was suddenly alar his head to the side froreat white bear, which, being likewise disturbed, raised itself iht there was no way to escape; however, with great presence of ht with all the haste he could, set it on fire; at the sight of which the bear, as noithin a very s hideously

Some time after this he was co along a deer-track, he chanced to spy a very fine tortoise-shell box, as he ih he could not conceive how it could be dropped there; and, thinking hethe Indians, claps it into his pocket; he had not gone far before he heard a hissing noise, which seeht it to be so out of the path he was in; but still the noise seely black head peeping out of his pocket, which he found came out of what he had picked up for a box: he with ers into his pocket, takes out his supposed box, and flings it to the ground, when the creature, opening the upper from the under shell, marched away; this was, as he afterwards found, no other than a land-tortoise

He found his journey very often obstructed by rivers and rivulets, which he was obliged either to wade through or swirievously galled by his yoke, or collar, he discovered several tracks of the Indians Never did itate the breast of any man than did the breast of our hero at this tiht of the track of any huet rid of his heavy collar, as well as get so been exhausted for al with this reflection before the idea of the barbarous and unfriendly Indians struck into his mind, for he was quite uncertain whether the footsteps he discovered ood and friendly Indians, or to those barbarous and inhuman wretches; he now represented hiainst whom he had no arms to defend himself, cruelly tormented, and at last slain as a victim in some of their bloody sacrifices

It was about the evening when he discovered these footsteps, and he passed the whole night in this tor he discovered five Indians at a distance; his fears represented theantic stature, that he thought he could perceive their faces to be very flat and broad, which was the characteristic or mark of the unfriendly Indians This struck hiave himself over for lost, when he saw they had espied hi nearer, he perceived the, hanging down a great way over their shoulders; and, to his inexpressible joy, he distinguished they had guns in their hands, which was a sure sign they were the friendly Indians This raised his spirits, and he approached thens that he craved their assistance The Indians accosted hi _hush ood- hold of his collar, they repeated one to another, in broken English, a runaway! a runaway! Presently after came up two more Indians, one of as a person of fine nificent than any of the others His habit being a most beautiful panther's skin faced with fur: his hair was adorned with a great variety of fine feathers, and his face painted with a great many colours By these marks of distinction, Mr

Carew supposed hi or prince, and indeed such he was; he spoke very good English, and accosted hiht hiive their houses, which are no round, covered over with deer or other skins Here, observing that our hero was grievously hurt by his collar, this good king i him from it; but, as he had no proper tool for that purpose, he was at a great loss how to execute it; but at last, taking the steel of Mr Carew's tinder-box, he jagged it into a kind of sahich he cut off his collar, but not withoutheartily at the work He then carried hihich appeared very handsomely furnished Here he ordered some Indian bread, and other refreshments, to be set before Mr Careho ate very heartily During this the prince acquainted hie Lillycraft; that his father was one of those kings ere in England in the reign of Queen Anne; and then showed him some fine laced clothes, which were land (e the First); he expressed a great affection for his brother kings of England, as he called theeneral Soon after ca in her hand a young prince, who both repeated the word runaice

Next day the king presented him to the wisos, or chief reat deal of civility, and tokens of high estee assigned to hirew every dayconsulted in all matters of difficulty Thus sudden are the scenes of life shi+fted and changed; for a brave man will never despair under whatsoever misfortunes; for our hero, who but a feeeks before was treated like a beast of burden, heavily loaded, cruelly whipped, coarsely fed, and all by the insolence and inhue country, with kings and princes, and consulted by a whole nation

King Lillycraft, as a ood natural sense, used to discourse with, and ask Mr Carew s in England Being told one day that the king of England never stirred abroad without being surrounded with a great nuhting for him, he very simply asked whom he was afraid of? or whether he was constantly at ith any neighbouring king, whotold to the contrary, he expressed very great surprise, and could not conceive of what use these ar, when I aht forpaid for it, and would each of them lay down his life to defend mine; and when I am at peace, I can fear no evil from my own people, therefore I have no need of arland kept hiwam, or palace, surrounded by certain officers, who permitted no one to coreatest difficulty in the world to obtain, and that not a thousandth part of the people, who lived in the tohere the palace was, had ever seen him in their lives, he turned away fro hiood brother of England: for how, added he, can he be the king of a people whoe of? or how can he be beloved by his subjects who have never seen hirievances, or provide for their wants? how can he lead his people against their enemies? or hohat his subjects stand in need of, in the distant parts of the kingdo told that the king of England was informed of, and transacted all this by ht be so; but if he should ever chance to go to England, he should talk with his good friend the king upon these matters, as he could not clearly apprehend how they could be For my part, added he, I know and a therievances, and a told the people of England paid their king, yearly, vasts suhed, and cried, O poor king! adding, I have often given tofro the principal employment and diversion of the Indians, at which they are very expert, Mr Carew had an opportunity of gratifying, to the ut a day but he was a party aenerally with the king hi them, that they offered him a wife out of the principal fa; but our hero, notwithstanding these honours, could not forget his native country, the love of which gloithin his breast; he had therefore, for so the so

One day, being out a hunting, they chanced to fall in company with some other Indians, near the river Delaware When the chase was over, they sat down to be st the after their country fashi+on

Mr Carew took this opportunity of slipping away, and, going down to the river side, seized one of the canoes Though he was entirely unacquainted with thethe near Newcastle in Pennsylvania; the place he crossed over being called Duck's Creek, which co now got, as it were, aain, soon transfor off the button fro it on every side, he put on as demure and precise a look, as if his whole family had been quakers, and he had never seen any other sort of people Here, reader, it will be necessary to rest simple honest Indians, neither polite, lettered, nor deceitful, but aet the ways of nature, and to act every thing in disguise; whose hearts and tongues are as far distant asunder, as the North from the South pole, and who daily over-reach one another in the race to our hero if a such he appears polished as the best, and puts on a fresh disguise as often as it suits his convenience

The first house he went to was a barber's, of whose assistance he had indeed need enough, not having shaved his beard since he left the shi+p: here he told ahis name was John Elworth, of Bristol; that he had been artfully kidnapped by one Sareat hardshi+ps in ly lent his assistance to take off his beard; during the operation, he entered into a good deal of chat, telling hiave hiil, a quaker of the saot a ten-shi+lling bill froil, with reco whoreat deal of money When he took his leave, he was recommended by thereat deal of favour, and made the best of his way to Brandywine-Ferry, in which is rooland; and from thence to Chester, so called, because the people who first settled there came for the most part from Cheshi+re It contains above a hundred houses, and a very good road for shi+pping, the Delaware, on which it stands, being about three miles over Here are a court-house and a prison This place is also called Upland, and has a church dedicated to St Paul, with a nuation of those whom, exclusive of all other Christians, we call orthodox Mr Carew ca he enquired out one Mrs Turner, a quaker, who formerly lived at Eot a bill, and a recommendation to some quakers at Derby, about five miles further, where she told hi this, he set out for Derby; but, before he reached there, was overtaken by hundreds of people going to hear Mr

Whitfield preach Friend, says he to one of the so fast? Hast thou not heard, friend, says the other, the second Christ is come? He then joined them, and they all proceeded to Derby, where he found Mr Whitfield preaching in an orchard, but could not get near enough to hear his discourse, by reason of the great concourse of people; however, he seemed to be affected with it, and strictly i up of the eyes, &c Leaving the where Mr Whitfield lodged that night, was told at the justice's, as a ht, and being told that hevery cheerfully

In thehe asked for pen, ink, and paper, soon drew up apetition in the nayer, Captain Matthews, and carried into the Havannah, froovernor of Annapolis; that he was in theto help himself with, and hoped he would co finished his petition, away he went to the ed, and found a hundred people waiting at the door to speak to that gentle lad, who up to hied he would do an unfortunatehim his petition) to Mr Whitfield: and as soon as they perceived hi, Pray thee, friend, come and pray by my dear wife; and another, Pray thee, friend, coh the lad pointed out to him When he came up to him, he kindly said that he was heartily sorry for his misfortunes, but that ere all liable to them, that they happened by the will of God, and therefore it was our duty to sub out his pocket-book, he gave him three or four pounds of that county paper-money

Mr Carew returned hiratitude, and Mr Whitfield wishi+ng hi psalms with those that were about him; and we make no doubt but Mr Carew joined with theood success he had had with Mr Whitfield

From hence Bampfylde was only seven miles to the city of Philadelphia, which is one of the finest in all America, and one of the best laid out cities in the world It is the capital of Pennsylvania, and, were it full of houses and inhabitants, according to the proprietor's plan, it would be a capital fit for a great e its late foundation, able rivers, the Delaware and Schuylkill He designed the town in forth froht in nules by others of one ht and spacious He left proper spaces for -houses, schools, hospitals, and other public buildings There are a great nus, which are all carried on regularly, according to the first plan The city has two fronts on the water, one on the east side facing to Schuylkill, and the other on the west, facing the Delaware, which is near two able three hundred miles, at least for small vessels The eastern part is the able eight hundred miles above the falls We have observed, that each front of the street was to be two miles from river to river, as it was at first laid out; but one cannot suppose that it is finished in that ainst the Schuylkill are three quarters of a th; the houses are stately, the wharfs and warehouses numerous and convenient This city flourished so reat and small in it, in less than a year's tiress since that period; the nuenerally speaking, better edifices than in the cities of England, a few excepted, and those only in a few streets All the houses have large orchards and gardens belonging to theh and firs have very much contributed to the commerce of this place, where many rich merchants now reside, some of whom are so wealthy that they keep their coaches shi+ps ood anchorage; the land about it is a dry wholesome level All owners of one thousand acres and upwards have their houses in the two fronts, facing the rivers, and in the High-street, running from the middle of one front to the middle of the other Every owner of one thousand acres has about an acre in front, and the smaller purchasers about half an acre in the back streets, by which arden and sh-street is a hundred feet broad, so is Broad-street, which is in thefrom north to south In the centre is a square of ten acres, for the state-house, market-house, and school-house, as before hinted The names of the streets here denote the several sorts of timber that are common in Pennsylvania, as Mulberry-street, Sassafras-street, Chesnut-street, Walnut-street, Beech-street, Ash-street, Vine-street, Cedar-street There are also King-street, Broad-street, High-street

Their court-house is built of brick, and under it is a prison: several houses on the quay are worth four or five thousand pounds; and thirteen shi+ps have been on the stocks at a time: some hundreds have been built there The cellars and warehouses, on the quay, are h Here are two fairs in a year, and two markets in a week It sends two members to the assembly