The eighteenth day
the Werowance of Paspihe came himselfe to our quarter, with one hundred
Savages armed which guarded him in very warlike manner with Bowes and
Arrowes." Some misunderstanding arose. "The Werowance, [seeing] us take to
our armes, went suddenly away with all his company in great anger." The
nineteenth day Percy with several others going into the woods back of the
peninsula met with a narrow path traced through the forest. Pursuing it,
they came to an Indian village. "We Stayed there a while and had of them
strawberries and other thinges . .. . One of the Savages brought us on the
way to the Woodside where there was a Garden of Tobacco and other fruits
and herbes; he gathered Tobacco and distributed to every one of us, so wee
departed."
It is evident that neither race yet knew if it was to be war or peace. What
the white man thought and came to think of the red man has been set down
often enough; there is scantier testimony as to what was the red man's
opinion of the white man. Here imagination must be called upon.
Newport's instructions from the London Council included exploration before
he should leave the colonists and bring the three ships back to England.
Now, with the pinnace and a score of men, among whom was John Smith, he
went sixty miles up the river to where the flow is broken by a world of
boulders and islets, to the hills crowned today by Richmond, capital of
Virginia. The first adventurers called these rapid and whirling waters the
Falls of the Farre West.
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