besides her owne
incitements stirring me up hereunto." First she was baptized, receiving
the name Rebecca, and then she was married to Rolfe in the flower-decked
church at Jamestown. Powhatan was not there, but he sent young chiefs,
her brothers, in his place. Rolfe had lands and cabins thereupon up
the river near Henricus. He called this place Varina, the best Spanish
tobacco being Varinas. Here he and Pocahontas dwelled together "civilly
and lovingly." When two years had passed the couple went with their
infant son upon a visit to England. There court and town and country
flocked to see the Indian "princess." After a time she and Rolfe would
go back to Virginia. But at Gravesend, before their ship sailed, she was
stricken with smallpox and died, making "a religious and godly end," and
there at Gravesend she is buried. Her son, Thomas Rolfe, who was brought
up in England, returned at last to Virginia and lived out his life there
with his wife and children. Today no small host of Americans have for
ancestress the daughter of Powhatan. In England-in-America the immediate
effect of the marriage was really to procure an Indian peace outlasting
Pocahontas's brief life.

In Dale's years there rises above the English horizon the cloud of New
France. The old, disaster-haunted Huguenot colony in Florida was a thing
of the past, to be mourned for when the Spaniard wiped it out--for
at that time England herself was not in America. But now that she
was established there, with some hundreds of men in a Virginia that
stretched from Spanish Florida to Nova Scotia, the French shadow seemed
ominous. And just in this farther region, amid fir-trees and snow, upon
the desolate Bay of Fundy, the French for some years had been keeping
the breath of life in a huddle of cabins named Port Royal. More than
this, and later than the Port Royal building, Frenchmen--Jesuits
that!--were trying a settlement on an island now called Mount Desert,
off a coast now named Maine. The Virginia Company-doubtless with some
reference back to the King and Privy Council--De La Warr, Gates, the
deputy governor, and Dale, the High Marshal, appear to have been of
one mind as to these French settlements. Up north there was still
Virginia--in effect, England! Hands off, therefore, all European peoples
speaking with an un-English tongue!

Now it happened about this time that Captain Samuel Argall received a
commission "to go fishing," and that he fished off that coas