ogress of this first permanent English colony in
the New World. In addition to making themselves as gay as possible,
they had prepared a wedding breakfast to be served to the gentry at the
Governor's house, and the Governor had provided that meat and other
viands and ale should be distributed from the general store to the
soldiers and laborers and the Indians, their guests.

The guard at the fort was kept busy admitting the Indians and bidding
them lay aside their bows, hatchets or knives; though in truth no one
that day looked for any hostile act, since Powhatan's consent to his
daughter's marriage had put an end to the enmity between them.

He himself had not come to the ceremony. He was not minded to set his
foot upon any land other than his own, but he had sent as his
representative Pocahontas's uncle, Opechisco, and many messages of
affection to "his dearest daughter." The elderly werowance wore all the
ceremonial robes of his tribe: a headdress of feathers, leggings and
girdle and a long deerskin mantle heavily embroidered in beads of shell.
With him came Nautauquaus and Catanaugh. The two wandered as they
pleased through the town, and Nautauquaus, seeing Rolfe arrive in his
boat from his plantation Varina, where he had built a house for
Pocahontas, stepped forward to greet him. His love for Pocahontas made
him desire to know her future husband better. Though this man was of
another world than his, though his thoughts and ways were different, he
was a man as he was; therefore the Indian brave tried to appraise him by
the same methods he used in judging the men of his own race--and he was
satisfied. Rolfe, recognizing him, shook hands heartily and talked for a
while, enquiring about those of his family he had known while a hostage
at Werowocomoco.

After Rolfe had left him to enter the Governor's house, Nautauquas
turned to find out what Catanaugh was doing, but could see nothing of
him.

Catanaugh had not felt the same interest in Rolfe as did his brother and
had strolled away towards Pocahontas's house. He had a question he was
eager to put to her while Nautauquas was not by. He found his sister in
her white gown, with brightly embroidered moccasins on her feet and a
circlet of beads and feathers about her head.

"Wilt thou not adorn thyself," he asked, "with the bright chains of the
white men?"

"Nay, Brother," she answered; "it may be that I shall wear the strange
robes some day, and the bright chains an