An attempt to discover the exact whereabouts of Princess Pocahontas's
tomb is announced in the Press, and we understand that permission has been granted to reopen some of the old graves in St. George's Church, Gravesend. The parish register clearly indicates that on March 21st, 1616, was buried " Rebecca Wrolfe, Wyffe of Thomas Wrolfe, Gent., a Virginia Lady borne, in ye Chancell." Rebecca Wrolfe was none other than the Indian princess who saved the life of Captain John Smith, the founder of Jamestown, the first permanent British settlement in America. Pocahontas afterwards met Captain Smith at Brentford, and, according to an account left by him, she was so overcome by the meeting that she did not speak for hours and died a very short while afterwards. The suggestion has been made that if the remains are discovered they should be removed, with the permission of the British Government, in an American battleship and reinterred in Virginia. John Smith lies buried at St. Sepulchre's Church, Holborn Viaduct, a fact unknown to many American visitors. Pocahontas was not, of course, the first Red Indian to be brought to Great Britain. According to the register of Bideford, in Devonshire, Sir Richard Grenville brought back with him a Red Indian who was baptized in Bide- ford Church on Sunday, March 27th, 1588, by the name of Christian Rawley—after Sir Walter Ralegh. A year later he died, pining doubtless for his native woods.
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