WOMAN. The deer go to the river! You must shoot them while they drink. Here are your bows and arrows.
SECOND GIRL. I'll shoot a stag with horns!
WOMAN. Come, Pocahontas, and get your bow and arrows.
WOMAN. Ah, but you must. The braves have gone to watch the white men. So we must do the hunting. Come!
FOURTH GIRL. She only shoots at trees and sedges peeping from the water.
POCAHONTAS. They look at me so gently. I cannot bear to kill them.
SECOND GIRL. She will not even shoot a bird.
POCAHONTAS. I will not kill the pretty things. This forest is their home, the same as it is ours.
WOMAN. Such talk I never heard before! The braves must know of this.
POCAHONTAS. No, no! They will tell my father!
THIRD GIRL. He will send her from his wigwam! Do not tell him!
[Illustration: "I WILL NOT SHOOT AT DEER"]
FOURTH GIRL. He will send her alone into the forest! Do not tell him!
WOMAN. Then take your bow and kill a deer.
POCAHONTAS. I will not! I have told you that! I cannot!
WOMAN. Powhatan shall know. Before the sun sets, Powhatan shall know.
FIRST BOY. The braves have brought a prisoner!
SECOND BOY. It is the white chief from the village!
THIRD BOY. They have taken him to Powhatan!
TIME: _a little later._ PLACE: _Indian camp._
CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. MEDICINE MAN. CHIEF POWHATAN. POCAHONTAS. BRAVES, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN.
[CAPTAIN SMITH _stands before_ POWHATAN. He _holds a small compass in his hand._]
SMITH. Let me live, great chief! Let me live and you shall have my talking needle!
SMITH. It is this needle in this box. It talks whenever I wish it.
SMITH. It tells me where to find the north. I turn the box this way,--I turn the box that way. But the needle always shows the north to me.
POWHATAN. Why, so it does! It is very strange and wonderful!
A BRAVE. Will it tell the north at night?
SMITH. In the darkest night it tells you.
ANOTHER BRAVE. Will it tell the north on water?
POWHATAN. Come, show me how to make it talk.
POWHATAN. You shall live and go in peace.
MEDICINE MAN. Great chief, is it wise to let so wise a man go from us?
POWHATAN. Is it your wish to keep him here?
MEDICINE MAN. There is no place for such a wise man.
MEDICINE MAN. Let him go, or let him stay, he will only make more wise things.
MEDICINE MAN. Things too wise for Powhatan's braves. Things too wise for Powhatan.