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Oa..- fo r particulars. fiimH.»miimni»iminini»»iHmnnmmiiiimimi»iiimiinii»in»»H»n»mnniim I C A P T A I N S O F |! ‘ A D V E N T U R E ' By ROGER POCOÇK nmmiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiuuiimniiiiiiiiiiHiiHiiiiimûïïïïiïïïiii Copyright by Bobbs-MerrUI Company CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH A . D. 1608 While Sir Wnlter Raleigh was In the midst of that remarkable career which ended so tragically, and James I occu pied the throne of England, It was then that a gentleman and adventurer, Cap tain John Smith, came.home from for eign parts. At the age of seventeen Smith was a trooper serving with the Dutch In their war with Spain. As a mariner and gunner he fought In a little Breton ship which captured one of the great galleons of Venice. As an engineer, his Inventions of “flying dragons” saved a Ilungarlan town besieged by the Turks, then captured from the In fidel the Impregnable city of Stuhlweis- senburg. So he became a captain, serving Prince Slgismund at the siege of Iteignll. Here the attack was diffi cult and the assault so long delayed “that the Turks complained they were getting quite fat for want of exercise.” So the Lord Turblshaw, their comman der, sent word that the ladles of Rei- gnll longed to see some courtly feat of arms, and asked If any Christian officer would fight him for his head, In single combat. The lot fell to Cap tain Smith. In presence of the ladles and both armies. Lord Turblslmw entered the lists on a prancing Arab, In shining ar mor, and from his shoulders rose great wings of eagle feathers spangled with gold nnd gems. Perhaps these fine or naments marred the Turk’s steering, for nt the first onset Smith’s lance en tered the eyeslit of his visor, piercing • '•\voen the eyes and through the h k u ... “ ^took the head to his gen eral and kept the charger. Next morning a challenge came to Smith from the dead man’s greatest friend, by name Grualgo. This time the weapons were lances, and these being shattered, pistols, the fighting being prolonged, nnd both men wound ed, but Smith took Grualgo’s head, Ills horse and armor. As soon ns Ids wound was healed, at the request of his officer commanding, Smith sent a letter to the ladles of c W. N. <J.f BILLINGS, NO. 48-1923. Capi. John Smiin. Reignll, saying he did not wish to keep the heads of their two servants. Would they please send another champion.to take the heads nnd his own? They sent an officer of high rank named BonnI Mulgro. Tills third light began with pistols, followed by a prolonged nnd well-matched duel with battle-axes. Each man In turn reeled senseless In the saddle, but the figlit was renewed without gain to either, until the Eng lishman, letting his weapon slip, made a dive to catch It, nnd was dragged from his horse by the Turk. Then Smith’s horse, grabbed by the bridle, reared, compelling the Turk to let go, nnd giving the Christian time to re gain his snddle. As Mulgro charged, Smith’s falchion caught him between the plates of his armor, and with a bowl of anguish the third champion fell. So It was that Smith won for his cont of arms the three Turks, heads erased. After the taking and massacre of Reignll, Smith, with his nine English comrades and his fine squadron of cav alry, joined an army, which wns pres ently caught In the pass of Rothen- thurm between a Turkish force and a big Tartar horde. By Smith’s advice, the Christian cavalry got branches of trees soaked In pitch and ablaze, with which they made a night churge, stam peding the Turkish army. Next day the eleven thousand Christians were enclosed by the Tartars, the pass wns heaped with thirty thousand dpnd and wounded men, and with the remnant only two Englishmen escaped. The pil lagers found Smith wounded but still alive and, by his Jeweled armor, sup posed him to be some very wealthy noble, worth holding for ransom So he wns sold Into slavery, and sent as a gift by a Turkish chief to his lady In Constantinople. This lady fell In love with her slave, nnd sent, him to her brother, a pasha In the lands north of the Caucasus, begging for kindness to the prisoner until lie should be convert ed to the Moslem faith. But the pasha, furious at his sister’s kindness to a dog of a Christian, had him stripped, flogged and, with a spiked collar riv eted on his neck, made servant to wait upon four hundred slaves. - One day the pasha found Smith threshing corn In a bam some three miles distant from Ills castle. For some time he amused himself flogging this starved and naked wretch who bad once been the champion of a Christian army; but Smith presently caught him a clip behind the ear with his thresh ing bat, beat his brains out, put on his clothes, mounted his Arab horse, and fled across the steppes Into Chris tian Russia. Through Russia and Po land he made Ills way to the court of Prince Slgismund, who gave him a purse of fifteen thousand ducats. As a rich man he traveled in Germany, Spain nnd Morocco, and there made friends with Captain Merstliam, w hose ship lay at Saffee. I-Ie w as' dining on hoard one day when a gale drove the ship to sea, and there fell In with two Spanish battleships. From noon to dusk they fought, and In the morning Captain Merstliam said, “The dons mean to chase us agalu today. Thej shnll have some good sport for their pains.” “Oh, thou old fox!” cried Smith, slapping him on the shoulders. So after prayers and breakfast the battle began again, Smith In command of the guns, and Merstliam pledging the Spaniards In a silver cup of wine, then giving a dram to the men. Once the enemy man aged to board the little merchantman, but Merstliam and Smith touched off n few bags of powder, blowing away the forecastle with thirty or forty Span iards. They set the ship on fire, but the English put out the flames and still refused to parley. So afternoon wore Into evening and evening Into night, when the riddled battleships sheered oif at last, their scuppers running with blond. When Captain Smith reached Eng land he was twenty-five years old, of singular strength and beauty, a learned and most rarely accomplished soldier, a man of saintly life with a boy’s heart. Sir Walter Raleigh’s settlement In Virginia had been wiped out by the red Indians, so the second expedition to that country had an adventurous fla vor that appealed to Captain Smith. He gave all that he had to the venture, but, being somewhat masterful, was put In irons during the voyage to America nnd landed In deep disgrace, when every man was needed to work In the founding of the colony. Had all the officers of the expedition been drowned, and most of the members left behind, the enterprise would have had some chance of success, for it was mainly an expedition of wasters led by idiots. The few real workers followed Captain Smith In the digging and the building, the hunting and trading; while the Idlers gave advice, nnd the leaders obstructed the proceedings. The summer wns one of varied Inter est, nttneks by the Indians, pestilence, famine nnd squabbles, so that the col ony would have come to a miserable end but thnt Captain Smith contrived to make friends with the tribes, and Induced them to sell him a supply of maize. He was up-country In December when the savages managed to scalp his followers and to take hhn prisoner. When'they tried to kill him he seemed only amused, whereas they were terri fied by feats of magic that made him seem a god. He was taken to the king -•Powhatan—who received the prison er In state, gave hhn n dinner, then ordered his head to he laid on a block and bis brains dashed out. But before the first club crashed down a little In dian maid ran forward, pushed the ex ecutioners aside, taking his head in her arms, and holding on so tightly that she could not be pulled away. So Poca hontas, the king’s daughter, pleaded for the Englishman and saved him. King Powhatan, with an eye to busi ness, would now give the prisoner his liberty, provided thnt he might send two messengers with Smith for a brace of the deml-culverlns with which the white men had defended the bastions of their fort. So the captain returned In triumph to his own people, nnd glad ly presented the deml-eulverins. At this the king’s messengers were em barrassed, because the pair of guns weighed four nnd a half tons. More over, when the weapons were fired to show their good condition, the Imllnns were quite cured of any wish for cul- verins, and departed with glass toys for the king and his family. In return came Pocahontas with her attendants laden with provisions for the sinning garrison. The English leaders were so grateful for succor that they clinrged «’nptnln Smith with the first thing that eniered their heads, condemned him on general principles, nnd would have hnngc< 1 him, but thut he asked wliat they would do for food when he was gone, then cheered the whole community by put ting the prominent men In Irons and taking sole command. Every five days came the Indian princess nnd her fol lowers with a load of provisions for Captain Smith. The people culled her the Blessed Pocahontas, for she saved them all from dying of starvation. During the five weeks of his captiv ity, Smith -had told the Indlnns fuiry tales about Captain Newport, whose ship was-expected soon with- sappile* for the colony. Newport was the great Merowames, king of the sea. When Newport-arrived he was tear fully pleased at being the great Merow-' ames, but shared the disgust of the-of. ficials at,Captain Smith’s Importance, When he went to trade with the tribes he traveled In state, with Smith for in terpreter, and began by presenting to Powhatan a red suit, a hat and a white dog—gifts from the king of England. Then, to show his own Importance, he heaped up all his trading goods and offered them for such maize as Pow hatan cared to sell, expecting tons and getting exactly four bushels. Smith, seeing that the colony would starve, produced some bright blue beads, “ very precious Jewels,” he told Powhatan, “composed of a most rare substance, and of the color of the skies, of a sort, indeed, only to be worn by the great est kings of the world.” After hard bargaining Powhatan managed to get a very few béads-for a hundred bushels of grain. . The Virginia company sent out more Idlers from England, and some indus trious Dutchmen who stole most of their weapons from the English to arm the Indian tribes; James I had Pow hatan treated as a brother sovereign, and crowned with all solemnity, so that he got a swollen heud and tried to starve the settlement. The colonists swaggered, squabbled and loafed, In stead of storing granaries ; but all par- ties were united In one ambition—plan ning unpleasant surprises for Captain Smith. Once his trading party was trapped for slaughter in a house at Powhatan’s camp, but Pocahontas, at the risk of her life, warned her hero, so that all escaped. Another tribe caught Smith In a house where he had called to buy grain of their chief. Smith led the chief outside, with a pistol at his ear- hole, paraded his fifteen musketeers, and frightened seven hundred warriors into laying down their arms. And then he made them load his ship .with corn. This, food he served out in dally ra tions to working colonists only. After the next Indian attempt on his life, Smith laid the whole country waste until the tribes were reduced to sub mission. So his loafers reported him to the company for being cruel to the Indians, and seven shiploads of offi cials and wasters were sent out from England to suppress the captain. This was In September of tlie third year of the colony, and Smith, as It happened, was returning *to James town from work up-country. He luy asleep In the boat against a bag of powder, on which one of the sailors was pleased to knock out the ashes of his pipe. The explosion failed to kill, but almost mortally wounded Captain Smith, who was obliged to return to England In search of a doctor’s aid. After his departure the colony fell Into Its customary ways, helpless for lack of leadership, butchered by the Indi ans, starved, until, when relief ship.» arrived, there were only sixty surviv ors living on the bodies of the dend. The relieving ships brought Lord Dela ware to command, and with him, the beginnings of prosperity. When the great captain wns recov ered, his next expedition explored the const farther north, which he named New England. His third voyage was to have planted a colony, but for Smith’s capture, charged with piracy, by a French squadron. His escape In a dingey seems almost miraculous, for It was on that night that the flagship which had been Ids prison foundered In n storm and the squadron was cast uwny on the coast *of France. Meanwhile, the Princess Pocahontas hnd been treacherously captured ns a hostage by the Virginian colonists, which led to a sweot love story, nnd her marriage with Master John Rolfe. With hhn she went on a visit to Eng land, and everyv here the Lady Re becca Rolfe wns received with royal honors as a king’s daughter, winning all hearts by her beauty, her gentle ness and dignity. In England she again met Captain Smith, whom she bad ever reverenced us a god. But then the bitter English winter struck her down, and she died before a ship could take her home, being burled In the churchyard In Gravesend. The captain never again was able to adventure his life overseas, but for six teen years, broken with his wounds and disappointment, wrote books com mending America to his countrymen. To the New England which he explored and named, went the Pilgrim Fathers, inspired by Ills works to sail with the Mayflower, that they might found the colony which he projected. Virginia and New England werè called his chil dren, those colonics which since' have grown Into the giant republic. So the old captain finished such a task as “God, after His manner, assigns to His Englishmen.” IT 'v -. V~T*- Cats and Catfish. The unsuspecting cat has mnny kinsfolk In the matter of names. Con spicuous hinong these Is the catfish. The naming of this common denizen of fresh water lias been explained in more ways than one, and the reader may take Ills choice. One recognized authority contents himself with the statement that the name, as common ly upplied to the fishes of the family Stluridae, Is in allusion to the long barbels or feelers about the mouth, which have been considered as resem bling the whiskers of a cat. This ex planation Is widely accepted, but other authorities set forth a probable rea son for the name In the statement that when a fish of this species Is captured and brought to the surface he makes a sound like the purring of a cat. 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