Pocahontas To Jamestown Summary

One of the many speculations of Townsend that I believed in is her theory that one of the possible reasons why Powhatan sent Pocahontas to Jamestown to try to secure Namontack’s release, an Indian who were held in captive by John Smith and his people, was because Pocahontas was probably the best translator available. Pocahontas was probably able to know the basics of the English’s language growing up since the English has been coming to their town way before she was born. She also learned more from Thomas Savage, an English teenager whom Powhatan held captive. Townsend said that “It is possible that the adults encouraged the children to talk to him, that Pocahontas spoke to him, even taught him to say netoppew, “my friend”. Two months later