In John Smith's 1616 Letter to Queen Anne of Great Britain he wrote,
"Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation; and during the time of two or three years, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion; which if in those times, had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day."
This image of Pocahontas is how I think many people view her. She was a helper of the colonizers, and she protected them from not being successful in their endeavors. We do not know much about her because she never wrote anything as a record. People view her as a symbol of peace between Indians and the European colonizers. We do not know much more about her than that. When John Smith writes, "...was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine, and utter confusion," readers can understand that Pocahontas was more than an Indian Princess. She was a force of help for the colonizers during their hardships and she is a symbol of peace.
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