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Later, some of Powhatan's men tried to take guns from the English. Smith was very angry. He locked the men in a little room in Jamestown for a week. Then he talked to Pocahontas about them.

But the English didn't want to give Powhatan any guns. "Oh no, Pocahontas," John Smith said." Your father has thousands of men, but we have only a hundred and fifty. We can't give him guns."

"I'm very angry with these men, Pocahontas," he said. "But I'm not going to kill them, because your father didn't kill me in Werowocomoco. I'm going to give them to you. Take them home, Pocahontas."

Pocahontas laughed. "But that's not true! Of course the world isn't a ball! Why does the sea stay on it, then?"

Pocahontas liked the English, and she often visited Jamestown. John Smith liked to teach her new things.

"The sun, Pocahontas," he said one evening, "is a red ball in the sky. This world is a big round ball, too. Thirty years ago, an Englishman called Francis Drake sailed round the world in a ship."

Smith smiled. "Oh, I can tell you. Listen…"

"Do you have a wife, John Smith?" she asked one day.

He talked well, so it was easy to understand him. Pocahontas listened, and watched his beautiful blue eyes. She was fourteen years old, and for her, John Smith was the most exciting man in the world.

"No," he said slowly. "Why do you ask?"

"Oh, because one day I must have a husband, and…" She did not finish, but John Smith understood.

"Pocahontas," he said carefully, "you are only fourteen years old, and I'm twenty-eight. And the daughter of the King must marry somebody important."

"You are an important man in Jamestown," she said quickly. "And my people and your people must learn to be friends. A husband and wife can…"

"I can teach you about that!" she said.

"I'm nearly fifteen. In my village a girl can have a husband when she is fifteen! Why are you laughing?"

He looked at her in surprise, and laughed. She was angry when he laughed.

"Stop." He put his finger on her mouth. "Pocahontas, I like you very much, but I'm not the right husband for you, and… I don't know a lot about women."

"I'm not a child! You're afraid of me, because I'm a King's daughter, and I want you for my husband."

"I'm sorry," he said. "You are a beautiful, interesting girl, Pocahontas. But you are only a child!"

Pocahontas was angry and unhappy. She went away, back to her father's village, and she didn't visit John Smith again for two months. But she thought about him every day. There was only one man in the world for Pocahontas, and that was John Smith.

And in Jamestown, perhaps John Smith thought about Pocahontas, too.