Captain John Smith's Description Of How Pocahontas Saved Life

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That’s not the only thing they had to worry about, they also had to be wary of the Native Indians, as they called them “savages.” There were many accidents involving the Indians and the colonist, for example, “[Smith] finding he was beset with 200 salvages, two of them he slew, still defending himself with the aid of a salvage his guide, […] yet he was shot in his thigh a little, and had many arrows that stuck in his clothes but no great hurt, till at last they took him prisoner” (Baym, Nina, and Robert S. Levine, 59-72), the colonist lived in fear of the Indians attacking, but this encounter resulted in Pocahontas saving Smith’s life. “Then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines, Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death” ("Captain John Smith's Description of how Pocahontas Saved His Life"). Pocahontas was the Kings daughter, what just happened is important, saving John Smith life. But, time passed, and things weren’t always the same, the savages weren’t as savage no more. “Now was all our provision spent, the sturgeon gone, all helps abandoned, each hour expecting the fury of the savages, when God the patron of …show more content…

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