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Summarize chief pohatans letter to john smith: i have seen two generations of my people i know the difference between peace and war better than any man in my country. i am now grown old, and must the soon; my authority must descend to my brothers, opitehapan, opechancanough and catatough-then to my two sisters, and then to my two daughters-i wish them to know as much as i do, and that your love to them may be like mine to you. why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? why will you destroy us who supply you with food? what can you get by war? we can hide our provisions and run into the woods; then you will starve for wronging your friends. why are you jealous of us? we are unarmed, and willing to give you what you ask, if you come in a friendly manner, and not so simple as not to know that it is much better to eat good meat, sleep comfortably, live quietly with my wives and children, laugh and be merry with the english, and trade for their copper and hatchets, than to run away from them, and to lie cold in the woods, feed on acorns, roots and such trash, and be so hunted that 1 can neither eat nor sleep. in these wars, my men must sit up watching, and if a twig break, diey all cry out "here comes captain smith! " so i must end my miserable life. take away your guns and swords, the cause of all our jealousy, or you may all the in the same manner.

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