Chapter III: The Settlement of Virginia

THE MYSTERY OF CRO-A-TÀN, Margaret Junkin Preston 36
JOHN SMITH'S APPROACH TO JAMESTOWN, James Barron Hope 38
POCAHONTAS, William Makepeace Thackeray 38
POCAHONTAS, George Pope Morris 39
BERMUDAS, Andrew Marvell 39
NEWES FROM VIRGINIA, Richard Rich 40
TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE, Michael Drayton 42
THE MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS, Mrs. M. M. Webster 43
THE LAST MEETING OF POCAHONTAS AND THE GREAT CAPTAIN, Margaret
Junkin Preston 43
THE BURNING OF JAMESTOWN, Thomas Dunn English 44
BACON'S EPITAPH, Unknown 45
ODE TO JAMESTOWN, James Kirke Paulding 46
THE DOWNFALL OF PIRACY, Benjamin Franklin 48
FROM POTOMAC TO MERRIMAC, Edward Everett Hale 49

CHAPTER IV

_The Dutch at New Amsterdam_

HENRY HUDSON'S QUEST, Burton Egbert Stevenson 50
THE DEATH OF COLMAN, Thomas Frost 50
ADRIAN BLOCK'S SONG, Edward Everett Hale 51
THE PRAISE OF NEW NETHERLAND, Jacob Steendam 52
THE COMPLAINT OF NEW AMSTERDAM, Jacob Steendam 53
PETER STUYVESANT'S NEW YEAR'S CALL, Edmund Clarence Stedman 54