with a head full of overwrought fancies, ready to believe every English cavalier a demi-god; the conscientious governor, keen alike for Christian neophytes and for a respite from wars and rumors of wars, which a union between prominent representatives of the two races would bring about—it was a clever sum in the "rule of three" and skilfully worked out that winter of 1612-13. So they took her back to Jamestown and baptized her at the font in the church built by Lord de la Warr, christening her "Rebecca. Under this name they wedded her to John Rolfe, one April day. The tower still stands in which hung the two bells that rang joyfully as bride and groom passed through the narrow archway. The marriage cemented a lasting peace between the two nations. Powhatan, true to his purpose of holding no personal communication "jewell," with the aliens, never visited his " either in Jamestown or at her husband's plantation of Varina, near Dutch Gap, on James River; but he sent friendly messages from time to time, to "his daughter and unknown sonne," and would know "how they lived, loved, and liked." An amusing incident connected with the visit of Sir Thomas Dale's ambassador, to whom Powhatan addressed this query, shoots a side-ray upon the character of the conscientious and theological governor that throws the popular portrait of him out of drawing. When Powhatan had for answer that "his brother, Sir Thomas Dale, was well, and his daughter so contented she would not live again with him, he laughed, and demanded the cause of my coming. I told him my message was private and I was to deliver it only to himself and one of my guides that was acquainted with it. Instantly he commanded all out of the house, but only his two Queens that always sit by him, and bade me speak on.” The messenger offered, as a preamble to the motif of his communication, two pieces of copper (household utensils), five strings of white and blue beads, five wooden combs, ten fish-hooks, a pair of knives and the promise of a grindstone if Powhatan would send for it, all of which pleased the monarch hugely. 66 But then I told him his brother Dale, hearing of the fame of his youngest daughter, desiring, in any case, he would send her by me unto him in testimony of his love, as well as for that he intended to marry her, as the desire her sister had to see her, because being now one people and he desirous for ever to dwell in his country, he conceived there could not be a truer assurance of peace and friendship than in such a natural band of an united union." Powhatan broke in upon this astounding proposition more than once, but the Englishman had his say to the end. "Presently, with much gravity," that does credit to his breeding and discounts his sense of humor,-the monarch proceeded to say that, while his brother's pledges of good-will 64 were not so ample as formerly he had received," he accepted them "with no less thanks." As for his daughter, he "had sold her within these few days, to a great a great Werowance, for two bushels of Rawrenoke" (whatever that might be)," three days journey from me.” The Englishman's suggestion that the amorous graybeard would give him three times the worth of the mysterious commodity in beads, copper, hatchets, etc., if he would recall the bride-" the rather because she was but twelve Powhatan reyears old"—was a futile bait. minded him that Sir Thomas Dale had a pledge of his friendship in one of his daughters. So long as she lived, this must suffice. Should she die, his dear brother should have another |