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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
twenty others ascended the James River to the falls. They visited the native chieftain Powhatan, who has been styled the emperor of the country, at his principal seat, just below the falls of the river at Richmond. The imperial residence was a village of twelve wig- Chap. IV.} 1607. warns! The savages murmured at the intrusion of strangers into the country; but Powhatan disguised his fear, and would only say, They hurt you not; they take but a little waste land. Percy, in Purchas, IV. 1689. About the middle of June, Newport set sail for England. What condition could be more pitiable, than that of the English whom he had left in Virginia? The proud hopes which the beauty of the country had excited, soon vanished; and as the delusion passed away, they awoke and beheld that they were in the wilderness. Weak in numbers, and still weaker from want of habits of industry, they were surrounded by natives whose hostility and distrust had already been displayed; the summer heats w