3/18 The Chickahominies and the Powhatans have buried the hatchet." "I regret to hear it," I remarked. "Whilst they took each other's scalps, mine own felt the safer." "I advise going direct to Opechancanough," said Rolfe. In these virgin woods the trees are set well apart, though linked one to the other by the omnipresent grape, and there is little undergrowth, so that we were able to make good speed. By now the sun was shining through the lower branches of the trees, and the mist was fast vanishing. |