The correct answer is “Rescue by Pocahontas”.
Some historians believe that Capitan John Smith had misunderstood the “sacrifice”
that was ongoing. The tribe’s culture has a ceremony in which there is a fake
execution performed and a person – called a Sponsor – needs to stop the
execution, “saving” the victim, which in this case was non-other than Captain
John Smith. So, in short, it is possible that his life was never really in
danger in the first place, and his detailed and dramatic description wasn’t as
intense as he said.
