He has with him, so fortunately, "a round ivory double-compass dial." This, with a genial manner, he would present to Opechancanough.

The savages gaze, cannot touch through the glass the moving needle, grunt their admiration.

Smith proceeds, with gestures and what Indian words he knows, to deliver a scientific lecture.

Talking is best anyhow, will give them less time in which to think of those men he shot.

He tells them that the world is round, and discourses about the sun and moon and stars and the alternation of day and night.