They crossed the Atlantic at the request of the Virginia Company to encourage the English to invest in the colony. This month sees the 400th anniversary of the visit of Pocahontas, the Algonquian Indian princess, to London with her English husband, young son and a group of fellow countrymen and women. Pocahontas may be one of the two figures either side of the chief (catalogue reference: MPG 1/284) Representation of Chief Powhatan’s court taken from print of Captain John Smith’s map of Virginia made in 1608.
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