No horrid wars mark the early history of Pennsylvania.
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The Powhatans in Virginia.%--Much the same may be said of the Virginia tribes.

They were far from friendly, and had they been as fierce and warlike as the northern tribes, neither the skill of John Smith, nor the marriage of Pocahontas (the daughter of Powhatan) with John Rolfe, nor fear of the English muskets, would have saved Jamestown.
[Illustration: Powhatan Indians at work[1]] [Footnote 1: From a model.] On the other hand, the destruction of the tribes in New England and the feud between the French and the Iroquois saved New England.

For the time had now come for the opening of the long struggle between the French and the English for the ownership of the continent.
SUMMARY 1.

The inhabitants of the New World at the time of its discovery, by mistake called Indians, were barbarians, lived in rude, frail houses, and used weapons and implements inferior to those of the whites.
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