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The English captain of the Virginia Company’s maiden voyage in 1606. He sailed back to England to gather supplies and make a report just months after helping to establish Jamestown, and returned with gifts from King James I of England to give to Powhatan. Among these was a crown, which Newport symbolically placed on Powhatan’s head in a gesture of giving the mamanitowik even more “power” while reminding him that in the eyes of the English, only the English crown’s power was of any significance.
Captain Christopher Newport Quotes in Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
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Namontack convinced Powhatan to accept the gifts… […] “But a fowle trouble there was to make him kneele to receave his crowne.” Smith asserted that this was because the Indian did not know the “meaning of a Crowne,” but in fact he probably understood only too well the gesture of kneeling to receive a crown at the hands of another. He himself, after all, liked the practice of anointing tributary werowances who were bound to do his bidding. “At last by leaning hard on his shoulders, he a little stooped, and Newport put the Crowne on his head.”
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Captain Christopher Newport Quotes in Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
The Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma quotes below are all either spoken by Captain Christopher Newport or refer to Captain Christopher Newport. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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Namontack convinced Powhatan to accept the gifts… […] “But a fowle trouble there was to make him kneele to receave his crowne.” Smith asserted that this was because the Indian did not know the “meaning of a Crowne,” but in fact he probably understood only too well the gesture of kneeling to receive a crown at the hands of another. He himself, after all, liked the practice of anointing tributary werowances who were bound to do his bidding. “At last by leaning hard on his shoulders, he a little stooped, and Newport put the Crowne on his head.”
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