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gathered upon the shore and discharged flights of arrows, but were
went bad. Wind and weather were adverse; three or four.html">four of the fifteen.html">fifteen fell
mouth of "Patawomeck"--the Potomac. They turned their boat.html">boat up this vast
without warning they came upon ambuscades of great numbers "so strangely
supposed them so many divils." Smith, in midstream, ordered musket-fire,
through the woods. The savages threw down.html">down.html">down their bows and arrows and made
and a kind of amicableness ensued. After such sylvan entertainment Smith
water broke from them; and these Englishmen in Old Virginia proceeded up
the north bank, rising, like the unsubstantial fabric of a dream, there
yellow spangles. They looked and saw high rocks, and they thought that from
found--but what of gold? What, even, of Cathay?
Going down stream, they sought again those friendly Indians. Did they know
visitors up a little tributary river to a rocky hill in which "with shells
mineral which, when powdered, they sprinkled over themselves and their
silver." The white men filled their boat with as much of this ore as they
sent to London and assayed, it was found to be worthless.
The fifteen now started homeward, out of Potomac and down the westward side
of four-footed Virginians. Bears rolled their bulk through these. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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