A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters. Part 7

Captain John Smith was notorious in his day for telling the gentleman settlers of Jamestown to stop looking for gold ("gilded dirt," in the words of the Captain) and start laboring for food. Dismissed as lies by past historians, his writings have recently found favor with a new generation of scholars. His A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as Hath Hapned in Virginia since the First Plantaing of That Collony... (1608) chronicles his rescue from Powhatan's warriors by Pocahontas and the bumbling impracticality of the early settlers, while A Description of New England... (1616) sings the praises of the lush natural resources of the New World.