1612

Strachey, William. The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia. 1612. Ed. R. H. Major. London, 1849. 54, 65, 111. (Ed. Louis B. Wright and Virginia Freund. London: Hakluyt Society, 1953. 62, 72, 113.) Strachey's A true reportory, his account of the shipwreck he survived on the way to Virginia in 1609 (Strachey was in the colony from 1610-1611 and became Secretary), is thought to be a source for Shakespeare's The Tempest. Here in his history of Virginia (not published until Major's edition) he memorably describes Pocahontas as an 11-12 year-old cartwheeling "little wanton," now married to Kocoum, whose right name was Amonute -- but there is no mention of connection with Smith, who had left Virginia by this time.
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