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...mates had merely been chased upriver by the wicked Spanish and would soon be gone. Powhatan, who knew better, signaled for a band of sinewy warriors to press Smith's head upon an altar of stone and prepare to beat out his brains with clubs. But Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas intervened (see following story), and the chief embraced Smith as one of his own, giving him the honorary tribal name of Nantaquoud. He even offered Smith some nearby land. Smith instead returned to Jamestown, where his adversaries charged him with negligence in the death of two of his men killed...
Princess Matoaka--she was also called Amonute--was born around 1596. Daughter of Chief Powhatan, she had to be a bit of a spitfire to get Dad's attention. Powhatan had a hundred "wives" or, more accurately, women who bore him children. This child was special. He nicknamed her Pocahontas, or little capricious one, a tribute to her playful nature. She was also striking. She "much exceedeth any of the rest of his [Powhatan's] people," wrote Smith, "not only for feature, countenance and proportion...but for wit and spirit, the only Nonpareil of his country...
...from Jamestown. There the planter John Rolfe, a prosperous widower, soon found himself battling an attraction he deemed alternately sinful and sublime. In what must be the most peculiar betrothal request in American history, Rolfe wrote to Virginia Governor Thomas Dale, first apologizing for being in love with the daughter of the native chief, then begging for permission to marry her. Theirs was the first recorded marriage of an Englishman and a Native American woman, and it ushered in a period of relative peace...
...ideas, that underlie the imperfect images of everyday life." This is druggie talk - febrile and largely meaningless. That it was printed in Life magazine - the most influential publication of the day - without irony shows how na?ve we were. (Wasson in particular: he gave mushrooms to his 18-year-old daughter the day after his first trip...
...last New Year, her niece Kim Hyang Im - Seung-Hui's mother - confessed to her aunt and other relatives that her son had been diagnosed in the U.S. with autism. "The doctor told her that Seung-Hui was ill and she was very worried about him. She said her daughter was doing well, though...