Captain John Smith and Pocahontas Page #5

our women and defile our houses.

They kill with their breath,

as well as their weapons.

So that the flesh of our peoples turn into

biting sores and waste away from the bones.

All white skins are serpents

with forked tongue and poisoned fang.

Opechanco has spoken.

These white skins are gods.

To injure them will bring misfortune

to Powhatan and his people.

Arrows will not pierce their bodies...

but fall like dead leaves

blown by winter winds.

So the pale skin is a god

who has much magic.

Our friends need not fear.

There was a pale skin here

many moons before you came.

Raleigh, he was called. We met many times.

Great Chief, we come bearing gifts in peace.

Powhatan knows the gifts

the pale skins bring to his people.

The sickness which changes the skin

to evil scale.

The sickness which eats away the flesh

and the lungs.

And with these gifts, comes treachery...

and words spoken with a forked tongue.

Nantaquas saw what we can do

against our enemies...

if we wish to call on our magic.

Nantaquas has not seen as many pale skins

as Powhatan.

He does not know

that they wear a metal skin...

above their own.

Now I have stripped you of your magic.

It'll make a good cooking pot for my women.

The rogue means to kill you.

It is plain he has no love for me.

And the next one will tell.

You have the heart of the eagle.

You have earned the right to die,

but not by the death of slow fire.

What does he mean?

Just that we each die quickly,

instead of being tortured.

You will die by the hand of Opechanco.

He is my first warrior.

I give you that honor.

By combat?

Opechanco cannot meet you in combat

except in battle.

Why not here, now?

If you were a member of the tribe,

you could look forward to that.

For him to refuse would be a disgrace.

And the one who conquered

could decide the fate of the other.

But you are a prisoner.

Opechanco is your executioner.

Release him.

I beg Powhatan,

listen to his daughter's words.

Opechanco's tongue is a stranger to truth.

This white skin and his friends

are not our enemies.

They wish to live with us as our brothers.

If you send them

to the land of the shadow...

the Great Spirit will turn his face

away from our people.

Pocahontas begs mercy from Powhatan.

Pocahontas asks him

to give her this man's life.

White skins have cast magic

on Powhatan's daughter.

Her tongue speaks,

but her ears are deaf to her words.

Why does Opechanco have such poison

in his heart for the white skins?

What injury have they done him

or to his house?

Fine words from one

who has yet to get his first scalp.

They are not for a warrior's ears.

Warrior's ears? Slaughterer's ears!

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