Strachey embodies in his work considerable pieces of Smith's Map of
Virginia and Description, written in 1608, and published in 1612.
He continually deserts Smith, however, adding more recent
information, reflections and references to the ancient classics,
with allusions to his own travels in the Levant. His glossary is
much more extensive than Smith's, and he inserts a native song of
triumph over the English in the original.[1] Now, when Strachey
comes to the religion of the natives[2] he gives eighteen pages
(much of it verbiage) to five of Smith's.[3] What Smith (1612)
says of their chief god I quote, setting Strachey's version (1611-
1612) beside it.


[1] Strachey, pp. 79-80. He may have got the song from Kemps or
Machumps, friendly natives.

[2] Pp. 82-100.

[3] Arber, pp. 74-79.


SMITH (Published, 1612).

But their chiefe God they worship is the Diuell. Him they call
Oke, and serue him more of feare than loue. They say they haue
conference with him, and fashion themselues as neare to his shape
as they can imagine. In their Temples, they have his image euile
favouredly carved, and then painted, and adorned with chaines,
copper, and beades; and couered with a skin, in such manner as the