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![]() ![]() ![]() In 1624, which was 17 years after he met Pocahontas and seven years after her death, he wrote in The Generall Historie of Virginia that "Pocahontas the king's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death." Now, according to the Encyclopedia Virginia, the problem with this story is that Pocahontas was like 11 years old at the time and certainly wouldn't have been included in that initial meeting between Smith and her father, in fact since there was a big feast planned in Smith's honor she was probably helping with the preparations. The explorer John Smith famously told everyone who would listen that Pocahontas had saved his life.
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