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JOHN SMITH.
With the cool weather began active exploration, the object in chief the gathering from the Indians, by persuasion or trade or show of force, food for the approaching winter.

Here John Smith steps forward as leader.
There begins a string of adventures of that hardy and romantic individual.

How much in Smith's extant narrations is exaggeration, how much is dispossession of others' merits in favor of his own, it is difficult now to say.* A thing that one little likes is his persistent depreciation of his fellows.

There is but one Noble Adventurer, and that one is John Smith.