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In 1607 the English come to Virginia, in North America.
They want to begin a new life, and to make their home in the New World. They build a town and call it Jamestown, after King James of England.
Virginia is a new world for the English, but it is not new for the Indian people of North America. They live there; their fathers and their grandfathers lived there before them. It is their country, their home. And they do not like these white men from across the sea.
One of the Englishmen, John Smith, goes up the river in a boat, but the Indians find him and take him to the great King, Powhatan. The Indians want to kill him, but Pow hatan has a daughter — the beautiful Pocahontas. She looks into John Smith’s blue, blue eyes
. . . and so begins a famous story of two countries, two people, and a love without end.
O X F O R D B O O K W O R M S L I B R A R Y
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Pocahontas
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Pocahontas
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Thom as Sperling
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