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When her father was about to have smith executed. and john smith's version, pocahantas laid her head on his chest so that smith could not be beheaded without pocahantas suffering the same fate. in his letter to the queen, john smith said, "she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine, and not only that but so prevailed with her father that i was safely conducted to jamestown. that is the version of pocahantas that has passed through the centuries and is now the stuff of disney animation. but william stith's 1865 book tells us more about pocahantas. he wrote a book about the hist...