The works used in this study are

　　The works used in this study are, first, the writings of Smith, whichare as follows:
　　"A True Relation," etc., London, 1608.
　　"A Map of Virginia, Description and Appendix," Oxford, 1612.
　　"A Description of New England," etc., London, 1616.
　　"New England's Trials," etc., London, 1620. Second edition,enlarged, 1622.
　　"The Generall Historie," etc., London, 1624. Reissued, with date oftitle-page altered, in 1626, 1627, and twice in 1632.
　　"An Accidence: or, The Pathway to Experience," etc., London, 1626.
　　"A Sea Grammar," etc., London, 1627. Also editions in 1653 and 1699.
　　"The True Travels," etc., London, 1630.
　　"Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New England," etc.,London, 1631.
　　Other authorities are:
　　"The Historie of Travaile into Virginia," etc., by William Strachey,Secretary of the colony 1609 to 1612. First printed for the HakluytSociety, London, 1849.
　　"Newport's Relatyon," 1607. Am. Ant. Soc., Vol. 4.
　　"Wingfield's Discourse," etc., 1607. Am. Ant. Soc., Vol. 4.
　　"Purchas his Pilgrimage," London, 1613.
　　"Purchas his Pilgrimes," London, 1625-6.
　　"Ralph Hamor's True Discourse," etc., London, 1615.
　　"Relation of Virginia," by Henry Spelman, 1609. First printed by J.
　　F. Hunnewell, London, 1872.
　　"History of the Virginia Company in London," by Edward D. Neill,Albany, 1869.
　　"William Stith's History of Virginia," 1753, has been consulted forthe charters and letters-patent. The Pocahontas discussion has beenfollowed in many magazine papers. I am greatly indebted to thescholarly labors of Charles Deane, LL.D., the accomplished editor ofthe "True Relation," and other Virginia monographs. I wish also toacknowledge the courtesy of the librarians of the Astor, the Lenox,the New York Historical, Yale, and Cornell libraries, and of Dr. J.
　　Hammond Trumbull, the custodian of the Brinley collection, and thekindness of Mr. S. L. M. Barlow of New York, who is ever ready togive students access to his rich "Americana."C. D. W.
　　HARTFORD, June, 1881
Chapter 1 Birth And Training
Fortunate is the hero who links his name romantically with that of awoman. A tender interest in his fame is assured. Still morefortunate is he if he is able to record his own achievements and giveto them that form and color and importance which they assume in hisown gallant consciousness. Captain John Smith, the first of anhonored name, had this double good fortune.
　　We are indebted to him for the glowing picture of a knight-errant ofthe sixteenth century, moving with the port of a swash-buckler acrossthe field of vision, wherever cities were to be taken and headscracked in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and, in the language of one ofhis laureates"To see bright honor sparkled all in gore."But we are specially his debtor for adventures on our own continent,narrated with naivete and vigor by a pen as direct and clear-cuttingas the sword with which he shaved off the heads of the Turks, and forone of the few romances that illumine our early history.
　　Captain John Smith understood his good fortune in being the recorderof his own deeds, and he preceded Lord Beaconsfield (in "Endymion")in his appreciation of the value of the influence of women upon thecareer of a hero. In the dedication of his "General Historie" toFrances, Duchess of Richmond, he says: