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PLACE _: forest near Jamestown._
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POCAHONTAS.
INDIAN WOMAN.
INDIAN GIRLS.
INDIAN BOYS.
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[POCAHONTAS _and the_ INDIAN GIRLS _are playing in the forest. An_
INDIAN WOMAN _comes with bows and arrows._]
WOMAN. The deer go to the river! You must shoot them while they drink.
Here are your bows and arrows.
A GIRL. I'll shoot a doe!
SECOND GIRL. I'll shoot a stag with horns!
THIRD GIRL. And I, a fawn!
WOMAN. Come, Pocahontas, and get your bow and arrows.
POCAHONTAS. I will not shoot at deer!
WOMAN. Ah, but you must. The braves have gone to watch the white men.
So we must do the hunting. Come!
POCAHONTAS. I will not shoot at deer!
THIRD GIRL. She never shoots at them.
WOMAN. Why, what is this?
FOURTH GIRL. She only shoots at trees and sedges peeping from the water.
WOMAN. Now why do you not shoot at deer?
POCAHONTAS. They look at me so gently. I cannot bear to kill them.
FIRST GIRL. She will not kill anything.
SECOND GIRL. She will not even shoot a bird.
WOMAN. Can this be true?
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.
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