Around 1608 colonization was taking place, Jamestown, Virginia was being settled, and there was the mystery of the lost colony. Among all these things is the Pocahontas / John Smith event. Historians argue weather Pocahontas saved John Smith or not. Pocahontas did not save John Smith because Smith had no reason to lie, he had different purposes in each document, and in some documents Pocahontas is not even mentioned. Pocahontas couldn’t save John Smith because he “had no reason to lie…” (Lemay). Also for more than 200 years “nobody questioned his story” (Lemay). If he didn’t lie when he said the empower was friendly than it was the truth. Lemay suggest that John Smith misunderstood the whole event and it could have been “a ritual for the
