To be sure this is not the real John Smith nor the real Pocahontas; but the Indians are real Indians, and are the descendants of the tribe that held Smith in captivity. This scene was enacted at the Jamestown Exposition 300 years after Smith had this thrilling experience. It is not known how much of the Pocahontas story is true. Smith told it as a fact, and we know that Pocahontas often befriended the white settlers at Jamestown, and was especially friendly to Smith. You recall that she afterwards married John Rolfe, with whom she went to London, where she was treated as a princess. This is the way Smith tells his story: "At last I was ushered into the presence of Powhatan, and found him seated before a fire, on a seat somewhat resembling a bedstead, covered with a great robe made of raccoon skins, with all the tails hanging theretoo. And along each side of

the house were two rows of men, and behind them as many women, all with their heads and shoulders painted red. They then held a consultation about me, which I could not altogether understand, and the conclusion was that I was to die. And, indeed, it did seem as if my last hour was at hand, for as many of the savages as could, law hold of me, and having brought two great stones, which they placed before Powhatan, they dragged me to them, and laid my head thereon, making ready with their clubs to beat out my brains." "Their clubs were raised, and in another moment I should have been dead, when Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, finding no entreaties could prevail to save me, darted forward, and taking my head in her arms, laid her own upon it, and thus prevented my death. She thus claimed me for her own, and for her sake Powhatan was contented that I should live, and that I should henceforth spend my time in making him hatchets and bells, beads, and copper ornaments for Pocahontas."