Smith, Captain John, a trustworthy topographer, 9, 34; captured by Indians, 9; views of geography of the continent, 22, n. 6; becomes leader at Jamestown, 31, 36; his character, 31, 32, 33; story of his own life, 32, 33; the Jonah and Ulysses of his time, 33; explorations and narrative, 34, 35, 36; overthrown, 36; accused of design to wed Pocahontas, 37, 51; later years, 37; foresight of America's future, 37; disabled by an accident, 37, 60, n. 2; sent home under charges, 37, 60, n. 2; accused of advising Indians to attack settlers at the Falls, 37, 60, n. 2; a typical American pioneer, 38; account of his writings, 61, n. 3; commended by the Virginia Company, 61, n. 3; given to romance in narration, 62, n. 3; his practical writings and wise speeches, 62, n. 3; examples of his exaggeration, 63, n. 3; Thomas Fuller's judgment of, 63, n. 3; authorities in the debates about, 63, n. 3; refusal to share his power, 64, n. 4; captured by the French, 178. ----, Generall Historie, 22, n. 6; 27, m.; 34, m.; 35, 36, m.; 61, n. 3; 66, n. 9; 95, n. 3. ----, New Life of Virginia, 27, m. ----, Oxford Tract, 34, m.; 35, 36, m.; 42, m.; 61, n. 3; 64, n. 3. ----, True Relation, 61, n. 3. Smyth, John, the Separatist, migrated from Gainsborough, 150; continually searching for truth, 186, n. 6. Smyth, Sir Thomas, governor of Virginia Company, 70, n. 16; resignation, 71, n. 17; aroused the king's opposition to Sandys, 87; resigned, 88; sorrows of the colony under, 206; faction of, 230; defense, 67, n. 9. Somers, Sir George, wrecked on the Bermudas, 40; builds two vessels and takes provisions to Virginia, 41; returns to the Bermudas, 41; death of, 42; Somers or Summer Islands named from, 65, n. 6. South Sea delusion, the, 6, 7, 8; an overland route to, 10; behind the mountains, 75. See also PACIFIC OCEAN. Southampton, Earl of, interested in the Virginia Company, 54; threatened by the Warwick party, 69, n. 13; really in power, 71, n. 17; procures silkworm "seed," 77; elected governor of the company, 89; imprisoned, 89; one of the fathers of representative government in America, 173; Virginians friendly to, 230. Southwest passage, conjectures of a, 22, n. 5. Spain, rivalry with, the motive for planting English colonies, 73; England's jealousy toward, 74, 94, n. 1; lavish of gifts to English courtiers, 223; made England relax penal laws against English recusants, 238. Spanish example, the influence of, on English projects, 73; fishing-boats to be seized at Newfounde lande, 94, n. 1; jealousy of Virginia, 94, n. 1. Spanish match, the, favored by Calvert, 226, 227, 258, n. 2. Speed's Prospect, 24, n. 10. Spelman's Relation, 60, n. 2. Spices, passion for, in Europe, 22, n. 5.