The Separation of Two Great Nations
June 17, 2007
We have not seen any trace of the Algonquians in a little over a month and I don’t think that we will ever see them again. And if we do, it will be as enemies on the field of battle. But who knows? There may be again a time when we Europeans and Natives like Powhatan will work and live side by side as friends. But that is a ways off still and it may not even be the case in the future, even though i wish it will be.
As for me I am due to return to England, after a gun powder explosion on a hunting trip when a youth loaded to much gunpowder into his musket and it had backfired right back into me. I would have much preferred to stay and live here but it is not to be so…
I will write one last time when I get back to England, and then I think that will be the last time you will hear from me in this journal. Until the next time I am permitted to write,
John Smith
Hello John Smith the next time we see each other I hope it is not going to be a fight. But if it is you are going down because we have been training for attacks.
But I am sorry to hear that you got hurt in a gunpowder explosion. That must have really hurt. I hope you get better.