The True Story of Pocahontas As it began to sail on March 21, 1617, Pocahontas quickly became ill after dining with Rolfe and Argall. She returned to her room and vomited, telling Mattachanna that she thought something was put in her food. Mattachanna went to get Rolfe as she convulsed. When she returned, Pocahontas had died. She was quickly buried in Gravesend, where Thomas was left to the clergy until relatives arrived. Rolfe left immediately for Virginia. Upon return, Mattachanna and her husband, along with the rest of the Powhatans, reported that Pocahontas was poisoned before her departure, as she was in good health in
Frederick Rolfe the Ulysses story there is some perhaps coincidental prefiguring of the work of James Joyce. Rolfe's works include: Frederick Rolfe Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (22 July 1860 – 25 October 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric. Rolfe was born in Cheapside, London, the son of a piano manufacturer. He left school at the age of fourteen and became a teacher. He taught briefly at The King's School, Grantham, where the then headmaster, Ernest Hardy, later principal of Jesus College, Oxford, became a