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                                CAPTAIN
                              JOHN SMITH

                           FOURTH IMPRESSION




_The American Trail Blazers_

“THE STORY GRIPS AND THE HISTORY STICKS”

These books present in the form of vivid and fascinating fiction, the
early and adventurous phases of American history. Each volume deals
with the life and adventures of one of the great men who made that
history, or with some one great event in which, perhaps, several heroic
characters were involved. The stories, though based upon accurate
historical fact, are rich in color, full of dramatic action, and appeal
to the imagination of the red-blooded man or boy.

Each volume illustrated in color and black and white

12mo. Cloth.


    LOST WITH LIEUTENANT PIKE
    GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES
    OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
    WITH CARSON AND FREMONT
    DANIEL BOONE: BACKWOODSMAN
    BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL
    CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
    DAVID CROCKETT: SCOUT
    ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER
    GOLD SEEKERS OF ’49
    WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS




[Illustration: THE TERRIFIED FRENCHMAN DROPPED HIS SWORD AND FELL UPON
HIS KNEES]




                                CAPTAIN
                              JOHN SMITH


                                  BY
                         C. H. FORBES-LINDSAY

        AUTHOR OF “INDIA: PAST AND PRESENT,” “AMERICA’S INSULAR
           POSSESSIONS,” “DANIEL BOONE, BACKWOODSMAN,” ETC.


                   _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY_
                           HARRY B. LACHMAN


                            [Illustration]


                         PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
                       J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY




                            COPYRIGHT, 1907

                      BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY


         _Electrotyped and printed by J. B. Lippincott Company
         The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A._




                               DEDICATED
                                  TO
                            MY AMERICAN SON
                                  AND
                          MY BRITISH NEPHEWS




CONTENTS


 CHAPTER                                      PAGE
      I WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A WAY      23
     II LONDON TOWN IN SHAKESPEARE’S DAY        36
    III THE SOLDIER APPRENTICE                  48
     IV DUPED AND ROBBED                        60
      V A DUEL WITH A DASTARD                   72
     VI DARKNESS AND DAWN                       83
    VII SOME STRATAGEMS                         95
   VIII THE DIN OF BATTLE                      107
     IX GUERILLA TACTICS                       119
      X THE THREE TURKS                        130
     XI BRAVE HEARTS AND TRUE                  144
    XII SLAVERY AND A SEA-FIGHT                155
   XIII A BAD BEGINNING                        171
    XIV POWHATAN AND HIS PEOPLE                182
     XV TREASON AND TREACHERY                  193
    XVI CAPTIVE TO THE INDIANS                 204
   XVII POCAHONTAS TO THE RESCUE               215
  XVIII FIRE AND STARVATION                    226
    XIX A TURN IN THE TIDE                     238
     XX DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND                    250
    XXI SOME AMBUSCADES                        262
   XXII A CURIOUS COMBAT                       274
  XXIII A HUMBLED CHIEFTAIN                    285
   XXIV A DISMAL TALE                          296




ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                           PAGE
 THE TERRIFIED FRENCHMAN DROPPED HIS SWORD
     AND FELL UPON HIS KNEES               _Frontispiece_

 HE HASTENED DOWN TO THE WATER’S EDGE AND
     SHOUTED LUSTILY                                         85

 THE SETTLERS HAD BEEN UNDER THE SLEEPLESS EYE
     OF SPIES LYING HIDDEN                                  206

 IT WAS IN VAIN THAT THE INDIAN STRUGGLED TO
     SHAKE OFF THAT IRON GRIP                               282




FOREWORD


The history of the world furnishes few lives so romantic and replete
with stirring incident as that of John Smith, the founder of the first
English colony in America--that settlement at Jamestown in Virginia, of
which the United States of today is the outgrowth.

John Smith began life in the year 