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21. Selected image: page 442. Source: Knapp, Samuel L. "Sketch of the Life of John Smith, the Father of Virginia." [New York] Family Magazine 5 (1838): 443-44. A sketch of Smith's life must inevitably linger on Pocahontas saving that life: "Poetry, painting, and sculpture, have tried to give immortality to this event: but they have added nothing to the moral beauty of the scene -- that is inherent in the story: no meagre terms can diminish its interest; no swell of language increase its lustre; even the cold chronologist stops to say something affecting upon it, and the annalist grows eloquent as he puts it upon his record."
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