On the other hand evident enough are his courage and initiative, his ingenuity, and his rough, practical sagacity.

Let us take him at something less than his own valuation, but yet as valuable enough.

As for his adventures, real or fictitious, one may see in them epitomized the adventures of many and many men, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, blazers of the material path for the present civilization.
* Those who would strike John Smith from the list of historians will commend the author's caution to the reader before she lets the Captain tell his own tale.

Whatever Smith may not have been, he was certainly a consummate raconteur.

He belongs with the renowned story-tellers of the world, if not with the veracious chroniclers .-- Editor.
In December, rather autumn than winter in this region, he starts with the shallop and a handful of men up a tributary river that they have learned to call the Chickahominy.