[39] The matches were long coils of cord, chemically treated to burn slowly, and kept lighted at both ends. The coils were hung over the shoulder or hooked to the bandolier. [40] Prince or chief. [41] Purchas, Vol. XVIII, p. 477. [42] Smith's "Works," p. 39. [43] John Smith, in his letters to Queen Anne, gave her age as "twelve or thirteen yeares." [44] Cooke's "Virginia," p. 44. [45] Smith's "Works," p. 436. [46] Smith's "Works," p. 123. [47] Smith's "Works," pp. 124-125. [48] Purchas's "His Pilgrimes," Vol. XVIII, p. 449 _et seq._ [49] "The First Republic," p. 131. [50] The present county of Isle of Wight. [51] The colonists wished to send silk grass for a robe to Queen Anne. Queen Elizabeth had worn such a robe--made of Virginia grass. [52] Purchas, p. 507 _et seq._ [53] Smith's "Works," p. 455. [54] "The First Republic," p. 73 _et seq._ [55] Campbell's "History of Virginia," p. 76 _et seq._ [56] "The First Republic," p. 76. [57] Campbell's "History of Virginia," p. 77. "The First Republic" gives a later date. [58] Cooke's "Virginia," p. 63. [59] Smith's "Works," p. 480. [60] Smith's "Works," p. 486. [61] Smith's "Works," p. 168. [62] Grahame's "History of North America," Vol. I, p. 70. [63] "The First Republic." [64] Smith's "Works," p. 487. [65] Delaware's Report, in "Virginia Britannia," p. xxvi; Cook's "Virginia," p. 79. [66] Smith's "Works," p. 635. [67] "The First Republic," p. 128 _et seq._ [68] Virginia Britannia, p. xiii. [69] "The First Republic," pp. 285, 329, 612. [70] Campbell's "History of Virginia," p. 103. [71] "Virginia Britannia," p. 53 _et seq._ [72] _Ibid._, p. 54. [73] _Ibid._, p. 109. [74] Spelman's "Relation"--Smith. [75] "Virginia Britannia," p. 57. [76] Campbell's "History of Virginia," p. 107. [77] Cooke's "Virginia," pp. 97-98. [78] Smith's "Works," p. 517 _et seq._ [79] Smith, pp. 533-534. [80] One of her descendants, Mr. Robert Bolling of Chelowe, thus annotated those words in his "Smith": "To find Smith and inquire of him whether he was dead! A very comical commission, Grand-mama!" [81] Smith's "Works," p. 533. [82] Campbell's "History of Virginia," p. 122. [83] Address of Hon. Roger A. Pryor before the Virginia Bar Association, 1895. [84] "The Cradle of the Republic," p. 51. [85] "The Site of old 'James Towne,'" by Samuel H. Yonge, p. 8. [86] Howe's "History of Virginia," p. 390. End of Project Gutenberg's The Birth of the Nation, by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor