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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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rned in haste, and told a tale which made adeep impression upon the savages. They felrassured of Smiths supernatural powers, and re-solved both to spare his life and to let the James-town people alone at the present. So they ex-hibited him in various villages, and finally con-ducted him to the residence of Opechancanough.There, for three days, strange ceremonies wereperformed, under the direction of a priest, to as-certain the real character of the captive; andthen, after showing him a bag of gunpowderwhich they had taken from his companions, andwere intending to plant the next spring, in or-der to raise a crop of it, they conducted him tothe presence of Powhatan, the great Emperor ofthe confederacy, at Werowocomoco. The dusky court was immediately assembledto receive the illustrious captive in proper state.The people gathered around him with awe andveneration as he was conducted to the bough-built palace of Powhatan. That sovereign wasa noble specimen of a free son of the forest. 733
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He was about sixty years of age, of noble andcommanding stature, majestic mien, and, asSmith himself asserted, he was in manner andaspect every inch a king. He was clothedin a rich robe made of raccoon-skins, his headwas highly ornamented with feathers, and hisface was painted with red and blue colors. Heentered with haughty step, ascended a platformand sat down upon a rude throne, with a daugh-ter upon each side of him as supporters. Thesewere beautiful Indian girls, aged respectivelyabout thirteen and fifteen years. Along each side of the room were rows of counselors, behindwdiora were equal rows of women ; and all, ofboth sexes, were fantastically painted and orna-mented. The prisoner was brought in, and was receivedwith a shout. The daughter of a cliief broughtwater for him to wash his hands, and a bunchof feathers to dry them. Then they fed himbountifully, and his trial commenced. Theconsultation of that savage court was long andsolemn. The verdict was against the captive,and he

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