“For their apparell they are sometimes covered with the skins of wild beasts, which in winter are dressed with the hayre, but in summer without. The better sort use large mantels of deer skins, not much differing in fashion from the Irish mantels. Some imbrodered with white beads, some with copper, other painted after their manner. “We have seen some use mantels made of turkey feathers, so prettily wrought and woven with threads that nothing could be discerned but the feathers. That was exceeding warm and very handsome.”--_Smith’s History of Virginia._ [NOTE 9--CANTO SECOND, SECT. I.] A stout and trusty guard was placed Around the lodge, whose hands embraced The battle-axe or bended bow, Ready to meet a coming foe. “About his person ordinarily attendeth a guard of forty or fifty of the tallest men his country doth afford. Every night upon the four quarters of his house are four sentinels, each from other a light shoot, and at every half hour one from the _corps du guard_ doth hollow, shaking his lips with his finger betweene them; unto whom every sentinel doth answer round from his stand. If any faile, they presently send forth an officer that beateth him extremely.”--_Smith’s Virginia._ [NOTE 10--CANTO SECOND, SECT. VIII.] Then through that long and mystic reed, Emblem of many a sacred deed, Three solemn draughts the monarch drew, And the smoke in three directions blew. “When they smoke, the first puff is upward, intended for the Great Spirit, as an act of homage to him; the next is to their mother _earth_, whence they derive their corn and other sustenance; the third is horizontal, expressive of their good-will to their fellow men.”--_Dr. Morse’s Indian Report._ [NOTE 11--CANTO SECOND, SECT. XIII.] The voice of Powhatan was law. “He nor any of his people understand any letters whereby to write or read; only the laws whereby he ruleth is custome. Yet when he listeth, his will is a law and must be obeyed. Not only as a king, but as half a God they esteme him. His inferior kings, whom they call werowances, are tyed to rule by customes, and have power of life and death at their command in that nature. “They all know their severall lands, and habitations, and limits, to fish, foule, or hunt in, but they hold all of their great werowance Powhatan, unto whom they pay tribute of skinnes, beads, copper, pearle, deere, turkies, wild beasts, and corne. What he commandeth they dare not disobey in the least thing. It is strange to see with what great fear and adoration all these people doe obey this Powhatan. For at his feete they present whatsoever he commandeth, and at the least frown of his brow their greatest spirits will tremble with fear: and no marvell, for he is very terrible and tyrannous in punishing such as offend him.”--_Captain John Smith._ [NOTE 12--CANTO THIRD, SECT. III.]