Sunday, March 15, 2009
Thursday/title:Blood on the River, chapter 7/ pgs:128-135,min:17
Captain Newport made so many changes to them that it made their heads spin. Captain Smith was freed and Master Archer is taking off the council. The men didn't even think if sailing off to England and leaving others dead. Captain Newport brought so much food that when they heard a Wingapo, they didn't had to trade for food any more. But they didn't know that the Indians were giving it to them as a gift. Something in a canoe gets Richards eyes, its a girl. She trots up to Smith and tells him from her father, Chief Powhatan. Samuel told Richard that it was the girl who saved Smith. Richard and Samuel gulp as they see Smith bring the girl to them and tells them that she is Pocahontas, the playful one. He wants them to show the place to her. They first show Smith's cabin. She looks around and sees a knife that Smith uses to shave, she pretends to cut herself to fool Richard and Samuel. They both scream and examine her to see if she did cut herself but she began to giggle. Pocahontas told Samuel that she can beat him at a race so they both went outside. Richard gave the word, they ran but Samuel beat her. This was odd to both of them because the next thing she did was take off her deer skin and told Samuel to race again, she won him by a mile. Then she started to show them how to do a cartwheel. Captain Newport told them that the rocks they sent to the Virgina Company didn't contain any gold. The company still wanted gold so the men set out in the morning to mine but someone left something near the night fire and it caught on fire. Every one was throwing buckets of water to stop it. Captain Newport said to make a line and to pass the buckets one by one. They were able to stop the fire. Samuel was sad because they put so much work and every thing was lost in the fire, the men's clothes and even Newport's bible.
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