It is, moreover, dangerous to be considered powerful where one is scarcely so.

A young Indian lay mortally ill, and they took Smith to him and demanded that forthwith he be cured.

If the white man could kill--how they were not able to see--he could likewise doubtless restore life.

But the Indian presently died.

His father, crying out in fury, fell upon the stranger who could have done so much and would not! Here also coolness saved the white man.
Smith was now led in triumph from town to town through the winter woods.
The James was behind him, the Chickahominy also; he was upon new great rivers, the Pamunkey and the Rappahannock.