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- Captain John Smith: (1580 – 1631) an English soldier, explorer, and author, whose life was reportedly saved from execution by the Indian princess Pocahontas.
- Pocahontas: Pocahontas (1595 – 1617) a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Captures, she converted to Christianity, and married Englishman John Rolfe. In 1616, the Rolfes traveled to London. Pocahontas was presented to English society as an example of the civilized "savage" in hopes of stimulating investment in the Jamestown settlement. She became something of a celebrity, was elegantly fêted, and attended a masque at Whitehall Palace.
- La Belle Sauvage: a former public house in London, England, from the 15th century to 1873. In 1616, Pocahontas and her retinue, who had come over from Virginia, were boarded here.
- The Indian Princess; or, La Belle Sauvage: (1806) The first play in English about Pocahontas, written by James Nelson Barker,
- poca (Spanish): little
- honteuse (French): shameful, thus pocahonteuse – little shame
