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. To their notion they must lie at least half-way
across the breadth of America. Misled by Indian stories, they believed and
wrote that five or six days' march from the Falls of the Farre West, even
through the thick forest, would bring them to the South Sea. The Falls of
the Farre West, where at Richmond the James goes with a roaring sound
around tree-crowned islet--it is strange to think that they once marked our
frontier! How that frontier has been pushed westward is a romance indeed.
And still, today, it is but a five or six days' journey to that South Sea
sought by those early Virginians. The only condition for us is that we
shall board a train. Tomorrow, with the airship, the South Sea may come
nearer yet!

The Indians of this part of the earth were of the great Algonquin family,
and the tribes with which the colonists had now to do were drawn, probably
by a polity based on blood ties, into a loose confederation within the