Preliminary observations respecting the country of the southern Indians-WINGINA, the first Virginia chief known to the English-Destroys the first colony settled there-MENATONON-SKIKO-ENSENORE-Second colony abandons the countryTobacco first carried to England by them-Curious account of prejudices against it -GRANGANEMEO-His kindnesses-His family-His death-POWHATAN-Boun daries of his country-Surprises the Payankatanks-Captain Smith fights his people -Opekankanough takes Smith prisoner-The particulars of that affair-He marches him about the country-Takes him, at length, to Powhatan, who condemns him to be put to death-Smith's life saved at the intercession of Pocahontas-Insolence of Powhatan increased by Newport's folly-Smith brings him to terms—A crown sent over to him from England-Is crowned emperor-Speech-Uses every stratagem to kill Smith-Is baffled in every attempt-Smith visits him-Speeches-Pocahontas again saves Smith and his comrades from being murdered by her fatherТомосомо.

THE difficulty of rightly partitioning between the southern nations and the Iroquois, or Five Nations, can easily be seen by all such as have but very partially taken a survey of them, and considered their wandering habits. Therefore, should we, in this book, not always assign a sachem to his original family or nation, we can only plead in excuse, that we have gone according to our best information. But we have endeavored to draw a kind of natural boundary between the above-mentioned nations, distinguishing those people beyond the Chesapeake and some of its tributaries, as the southern Indians, and those between that boundary and the Hudson, by the name Iroquois. To their respective territories inland, we shall not, nor is it necessary to, fix bounds, in our present business. We are aware that some writers suppose that all the Indians, from the Mississippi to the vicinity of the Hudson, and even to the Connecticut, were originally of the same stock. If this were the case, the period is so remote when they spread themselves over the country, that these great natural divisions had long since caused quite a difference in the inhabitants which they separated; and hence the propriety of noticing them according to our plan.