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In the early seventeenth century, Captain John Smith led a corporation of British settlers to found the colony of Jamestown in Virginia. Here's Smith's own accounts of his adventures there and his marriage with the beautiful Indian princess, Pocahontas.Pocahontas was the girl of Powhatan, the powerful chief of about thirty tribes of Indians residing in Virginia. When Captain John Smith was captured by these Indians in 1607, he was helped bring before Powhatan, who sentenced him to fatality. Sixteen-year-old Pocahontas persuaded her father to spare Captain Smith's life, thus becoming a friend of the settlers and eventually influencing her father to be friendly, too. Years later, she preserved the lives of the entire colony by secretly caution Captain Smith of another designed attack.
