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And we continue with our American stories and the story of Captain John Smith.

Let's return to Juliana Rogers.

They take John into the biggest longhouse, and it's estimated to be about the size of half a football field.

And as they walk in, as John's eyes adjust to the darkness, he realizes it's filled with all of the leaders from all the

different tribes he had just visited on his journey to Warawokomoko.

And all of the leaders are painted red from the shoulders up.

And when he enters, they all give a loud whoop.

And the very first question Chief Powhatan asks is, why are you here and when are you leaving?

Meaning Jamestown.

And John immediately lies because he knows his fate is in this man's hand.

And if he says, I went from a country called England and we're going to build a colony here

and spread across the land, you know,

Chief Powhatan is going to have him killed. So he lies and says, a Spanish ship chased us here.

We are here until Captain Newport comes back and then he will take us back to England.

So Chief Powhatan seems satisfied with that answer.

John thinks it's going pretty well when suddenly Chief Powhatan gives an order.

Two of his men take John.

They force him to kneel down and lay his head across a huge boulder in the center of the room.

And they raised their clubs about to lower them and smash his head.

There's nothing John can do, again, certain death, so he closes his eyes and prepares for the strike. And that's when he hears a small voice speaking quickly in Algonquin, and he realizes

it's the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, and she's asking her father to spare John Smith's life.

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