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Title: Reception by the Chief of the Rappahannocks Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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ed upon a low sandy point at the entrance to the present Hamp-ton Roads, Avhere they found deep water andgood anchorage, and a resting-place in comfort. On that account they named the cape Point Comfort; and there hundreds of the people of Virginia now resort during the heats of summerto enjoy the cool breezes from the ocean andbathe in the blue sea waters. The natives, atfirst frightened, became confident when they sawCaptain Newport put his hand upon his heart intoken of friendship; and with significant signsthey invited the English to visit Kekoughtan,their principal town, where Hampton nowstands. There they were well entertained withcorn-bread and oysters; and when about to de-part a deputation came from the great chief ofthe Rappahannocks to invite them to his country.They were led thither by the messengers in ahandsome canoe, and landed, probably, uponthe southern cape of Mathews County, nowknown as New Point Comfort. The chief, witha large company, received them as they landed. 729
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BECEPTION BY THE CHIEF OP THE EAPPAHAKN0CK8. He approached playing on a flute made of reed.Upon his head was a crown of deers hair inform of a rosette, colored red, and fastened tohis own hair. On one side of his head he worea great plate of copper, highly ornamented, andfrom the crown arose two eagles feathers dis-posed like horns. His body was painted a crim-son color, and his face, tinted with a brilliantblue, was bespangled with what seemed to besilver ore. Around his neck was a huge stringof beads of shell, about his cars were trinkets of pearls, and in them the claw of a bird coveredwith copper ornaments. Such was the princeof the liappahannocks, who entertained the firstwhite people he had ever seen with as modesta proud fashion as though he had been princeof a civil government, holding his countenancewithout laughter or any such ill-behavior. Theyall smoked tobacco together, and then, alongpaths through pleasant woods, by the side ofwhich bubbled sparkling springs, and in them

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