adds to Smith's version the character and being of Ahone, as what
"the priests tell them". I submit, therefore, that Strachey's
additions, if valid for temples, are not discredited for Ahone,
merely because they are inserted in the framework of Smith. As far
as I understand the matter, Smith's Map of Virginia (1612) is an
amended copy, with additions, by Smith or another writer of that
description, which he sent home to the Council of Virginia, in
November, 1608.[1] To the book of 1612 was added a portion of
"Relations" by different hands, edited by W. S., namely, Dr.
Symonds. Strachey's editor, in 1849, regarded W. S. as Strachey,
and supposed that Strachey was the real author of Smith's Map of
Virginia, so that, in his Historie of Travaile, Strachey merely
took back his own. He did not take back his own; he made use of
Smith's MS., not yet published, if Mr. Arber and I rightly date
Strachey's MS. at 1610-15, or 1611-12. Why Strachey acted thus it
is possible to conjecture. As a scholar well acquainted with
Virginia, and as Secretary for the Colony, he would have access to
Smith's MS. of 1608 among the papers of the Council, before its
publication. Smith professes himself "no scholer".[2] On the
other hand, Strachey likes to show off his Latin and Greek. He has
a curious, if inaccurate, knowledge of esoteric Greek and Roman
religious antiquities, and in writing of religion aims at a
comparative method. Strachey, however, took the trouble to copy
bits of Smith into his own larger work, which he never gave to the
printers.


[1] Arber, p. 444.

[2] Arber, p. 442.