[Pioneers of the Old South by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookPioneers of the Old South CHAPTER III 4/20
"We Stayed there a while and had of them strawberries and other thinges....
One of the Savages brought us on the way to the Woodside where there was a Garden of Tobacco and other fruits and herbes; he gathered Tobacco and distributed to every one of us, so wee departed." It is evident that neither race yet knew if it was to be war or peace. What the white man thought and came to think of the red man has been set down often enough; there is scantier testimony as to what was the red man's opinion of the white man.
Here imagination must be called upon. Newport's instructions from the London Council included exploration before he should leave the colonists and bring the three ships back to England.
Now, with the pinnace and a score of men, among whom was John Smith, he went sixty miles up the river to where the flow is broken by a world of boulders and islets, to the hills crowned today by Richmond, capital of Virginia.
The first adventurers called these rapid and whirling waters the Falls of the Farre West.
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