d be incomplete that
contained no reference to the letter written by him to Queen Anne (the
consort of James I.), in 1616, recommending the Lady Rebecca Rolfe to
the royal favor.

He would "be guilty of the deadly poison of ingratitude," he wrote, if
he failed to narrate what he and the colony at Jamestown owed to
Pocahontas. He besought the queen's kindly consideration for the
stranger just landed upon her shores, as due to Pocahontas's "great
spirit, her desert, birth, want, and simplicity." His one call upon the
wife of John Rolfe, Gentleman, was marked by profound respect on his
part to one whom he accosted as "Lady Rebecca;" by profound emotion on
hers.

John Smith's biography and epitaph are best summed up by one of his
brothers-in-arms:

"What shall I saye, but thus we lost him that in all his
proceedings made justice his first guide and experience his
second, ever hating basenesse, sloth, pride, and indignitie more
than any dangers; that never allowed more for himself than for
his soldiers with him; that upon no danger would send them where
he would not lead them himselfe; that would never see us want
what he either had or could by any means get us; that would
rather want than borrow, or starve than not pay; that loved
action more than wordes, and hated falsehood and covetousnesse
worse than death; whose adventures were our lives and whose losse
our deaths."

[Signature: Marion Harland.]

WILLIAM HARVEY

(1578-1657)

William Harvey was born on April 1, 1578, at Folkestone, on the southern
coast of Kent. He was the eldest of nine children; of the rest little
more is known, than that several of the brothers were among the most
eminent merchants in the city of London during the reigns of the two
first Stuarts. His father, Thomas Harvey, followed no profession. He
married Joanna Falke, at the age of twenty, and lived upon his own
estate at Folkestone. This property devolved by inheritance upon his
eldest son; and the greater part of it was eventually bequeathed by him
to the college at which he was educated.

At ten years of age he commenced his studies at the grammar school in
Canterbury; and upon May 31, 1593, soon after the completion of his
fifteenth year, was admitted as a pensioner at Caius College, Cambridge.

[Illustration: William Harvey.]

At that time a familiar acquaintance with logic and the learned
languages was indispensable