In the early seventeenth century Captain John Smith led a company of English settlers to found the colony of Jamestown in Virginia. Here is Smith's own account of his adventures there and his relationship with the beautiful Indian princess Pocahontas.<br><br><br><br>Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan the powerful chief of about thirty tribes of Indians living in Virginia. When Captain John Smith was captured by these Indians in 1607 he was brought before Powhatan who sentenced him to death. Sixteen-year-old Pocahontas convinced her father to spare Captain Smith's life thus becoming a friend of the settlers and eventually influencing her father to be friendly too. Years later she saved the lives of the entire colony by secretly warning Captain Smith of another intended attack.