Chapter I: Front Matter

CAPTAIN
JOHN SMITH

FOURTH IMPRESSION

_The American Trail Blazers_

“THE STORY GRIPS AND THE HISTORY STICKS”

These books present in the form of vivid and fascinating fiction, the early and adventurous phases of American history. Each volume deals with the life and adventures of one of the great men who made that history, or with some one great event in which, perhaps, several heroic characters were involved. The stories, though based upon accurate historical fact, are rich in color, full of dramatic action, and appeal to the imagination of the red-blooded man or boy.

Each volume illustrated in color and black and white

12mo. Cloth.

LOST WITH LIEUTENANT PIKE
GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES
OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
WITH CARSON AND FREMONT
DANIEL BOONE: BACKWOODSMAN
BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
DAVID CROCKETT: SCOUT
ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER
GOLD SEEKERS OF ’49
WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS

CAPTAIN
JOHN SMITH

BY
C. H. FORBES-LINDSAY

AUTHOR OF “INDIA: PAST AND PRESENT,” “AMERICA’S INSULAR
POSSESSIONS,” “DANIEL BOONE, BACKWOODSMAN,” ETC.

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY_
HARRY B. LACHMAN

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1907

BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

_Electrotyped and printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A._

DEDICATED
TO
MY AMERICAN SON
AND
MY BRITISH NEPHEWS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A WAY 23
II LONDON TOWN IN SHAKESPEARE’S DAY 36
III THE SOLDIER APPRENTICE 48
IV DUPED AND ROBBED 60
V A DUEL WITH A DASTARD 72
VI DARKNESS AND DAWN 83
VII SOME STRATAGEMS 95
VIII THE DIN OF BATTLE 107
IX GUERILLA TACTICS 119
X THE THREE TURKS 130
XI BRAVE HEARTS AND TRUE 144
XII SLAVERY AND A SEA-FIGHT 155
XIII A BAD BEGINNING 171
XIV POWHATAN AND HIS PEOPLE 182
XV TREASON AND TREACHERY 193
XVI CAPTIVE TO THE INDIANS 204
XVII POCAHONTAS TO THE RESCUE 215
XVIII FIRE AND STARVATION 226
XIX A TURN IN THE TIDE 238
XX DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND 250
XXI SOME AMBUSCADES 262
XXII A CURIOUS COMBAT 274
XXIII A HUMBLED CHIEFTAIN 285
XXIV A DISMAL TALE 296

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
THE TERRIFIED FRENCHMAN DROPPED HIS SWORD
AND FELL UPON HIS KNEES _Frontispiece_

HE HASTENED DOWN TO THE WATER’S EDGE AND
SHOUTED LUSTILY 85

THE SETTLERS HAD BEEN UNDER THE SLEEPLESS EYE
OF SPIES LYING HIDDEN 206

IT WAS IN VAIN THAT THE INDIAN STRUGGLED TO
SHAKE OFF THAT IRON GRIP 282