History has not preserved for us the Indian view of her conduct.
This savage was the Tomocomo spoken of above, who had been sent by
Powhatan to take a census of the people of England, and report what they
and their state were. At Plymouth he got a long stick and began to make
notches in it for the people he saw. But he was quickly weary of that
task. He told Smith that Powhatan bade him seek him out, and get him to
show him his God, and the King, Queen, and Prince, of whom Smith had told
so much. Smith put him off about showing his God, but said he had heard
that he had seen the King. This the Indian denied, James probably not
coming up to his idea of a king, till by circumstances he was convinced
he had seen him. Then he replied very sadly: "You gave Powhatan a white
dog, which Powhatan fed as himself, but your king gave me nothing, and I
am better than your white dog."
Sir Thomas Dale was on the whole the most efficient and discreet Governor
the colony had had. One element of his success was no doubt the change
in the charter. By the first charter everything had been held in common
by the company, and there had been no division of property or allotment
of land among the colonists.
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