and was brought before the king at Werowocomoco. He was the first
Englishman to meet Wahunsunacock, and it was at this initial meeting that according to some accounts Smith’s life was saved only at the intervention of Wahunsunacock’s young daughter Pocahontas. Freed on January 2, 1608,Smith returned to Jamestown, which was stil perilously low on food, until the timely return of Newport from England later on the same day.