Pocahontas
Summary of a legend.
_ The narrative of a mysterious young girl who rescues an English explore from death only to fall in love and win his affections in return. Pocahontas is an independent, curious woman who stumbles upon the English settlement. Her legendary rescues of the English captain on the verge of his execution was probably part of a traditional Indian adoption ceremony ( misinterpreted or misunderstood by Smith), thought it is possible that without her intercession he would have been killed. Pocahontas died in 1967, after boarding ship for a return to Virginia. She was really young when she died, she was only 22. But with most people, she died as a legend.