John Smith's Relationship With Pocahontas

It is also important to consider John Smith’s past behavior and attitude towards women when looking at his so-called relationship with Pocahontas. “...In Smith’s later accounts of his exploits around the world, he never failed to mention that at each criminal juncture a beautiful young woman had fallen in love with him and interceded on his behalf. It had happened, he said, in Turkey, where a young Muslim woman he identified as ‘Charatza Tragabigzanda’ had purportedly begged her brother to treat the enslaved prisoner of war well, hoping to marry him some day… It had happened again on his escape route, when ‘Callamata,’ the wife of a Cossack chieftain, supposedly came to his aid.” (52-53) The list goes on, but this goes to show that Smith tends