The Dutchmen with Powhatan continued to make trouble, and confederates in the camp supplied them with powder and shot, swords and tools.  Powhatan kept the whites who were with him to instruct the Indians in the art of war.  They expected other whites to join them, and those not coming, they sent Francis, their companion, disguised as an Indian, to find out the cause.  He came to the Glass house in the woods a mile from Jamestown, which was the rendezvous for all their villainy.  Here they laid an ambush of forty men for Smith, who hearing of the Dutchman, went thither to apprehend him.  The rascal had gone, and Smith, sending twenty soldiers to follow and capture him, started alone from the Glass house to return to the fort.  And now occurred another of those personal adventures which made Smith famous by his own narration.

On his way he encountered the King of Paspahegh, “a most strong, stout savage,” who, seeing that Smith had only his falchion, attempted to shoot him.  Smith grappled him; the savage prevented his drawing his blade, and bore him into the river to drown him.  Long they struggled in the water, when the President got the savage by the throat and nearly strangled him, and drawing his weapon, was about to cut off his head, when the King begged his life so pitifully, that Smith led him prisoner to the fort and put him in chains.

In the pictures of this achievement, the savage is represented as about twice the size and stature of Smith; another illustration that this heroic soul was never contented to take one of his size.

The Dutchman was captured, who, notwithstanding his excuses that he had escaped from Powhatan and did not intend to return, but was only walking in the woods to gather walnuts, on the testimony of Paspahegh of his treachery, was also “laid by the heels.”  Smith now proposed to Paspahegh to spare his life if he would induce Powhatan to send back the renegade Dutchmen.  The messengers for this purpose reported that the Dutchmen, though not detained by Powhatan, would not come, and the Indians said they could not bring them on their backs fifty miles through the woods.  Daily the King’s wives, children, and people came to visit him, and brought presents to procure peace and his release.  While this was going on, the King, though fettered, escaped.  A pursuit only resulted in a vain fight with the Indians.  Smith then made prisoners of two Indians who seemed to be hanging around the camp, Kemps and Tussore, “the two most exact villains in all the country,” who would betray their own king and kindred for a piece of copper, and sent them with a force of soldiers, under Percy, against Paspahegh.  The expedition burned his house, but did not capture the fugitive.  Smith then went against them himself, killed six or seven, burned their houses, and took their boats and fishing wires.  Thereupon the savages sued for peace, and an amnesty was established that lasted as long as Smith remained in the country.