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42. Selected image: page 116. Source: Sigourney, Mrs. L. H. "Pocahontas." The Child's Book. New York, 1851. 116-22. Sigourney this time with a pretty straightforward historical sketch for children, one of only a few real persons in the collection (Henry I, Moses, Washington, Napoleon). Pocahontas's aid to the colonists precedes (and perhaps accounts for ) her rescue of Smith. In England, the gentry "admired the rich, flowing black hair, and the gentle ladylike manners of the forest princess." The climactic image is of the aged, white-haired Powhatan, sitting on a high hill, "watching the waters, and hoping that every speck which appeared among the mist, was the vessel bearing her to his arms." "But he saw her no more [and] mourned for her till he died."
[illustrated; juvenile]