The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-04-26

two generations.
As richly as corn grows here, we
cannot now boast of such as credutnus
old Barlowe saw--''corn which Is very
white, fair and we'll tasted, and grows
three times in Ave month"; Yet MS
description of fowl will still hold good:
When they dischar ged an "arqueous
shot among cranes (most white) such q
CRY went up as if a whole army OF men
returning cried out at once"
His description of the natives We
are willing to appropriate n SO lar a.
he tells Of hospitality and / heart
edness. He wrote And after a re"
days overpassed the chief brought ms
wife with him to the ships, his daugh
ter and two or three chilsren. HIS
wife was very we'll favored, of moderate
stature and very bashful. She had on
her back a long cloak with the fur SIDE
side next to her body, aud before her
a piece IF the same" There is not TO-
day a fur lined cloak in Dare county.
We have become simpler III our dress
s'Wbsn we were come to the outer
ROOM" Barlowe writes Of his reception
"having five rooms in her house. the
Queen caused US to sit down by q great
fire and after took of our clothes and
washed them ana dried them again;
some of the women plucked OH our
stockings and washed them, some
washed our feet in warm water, and
she herself took great pains to see all
things ordered in the best manner she
could, making great haste to dress
some meat for US to eat"
"We fou nd the people most gentle
loving and faithful, void Of all guile
and treason and such as live after the
manner Of the golden Age The
Golden Age is ours yet-at least an age
of simple contentment, Of wine and hsh
and freedman age yet full OF stores
and good cheer. In 1886 Sir Richard
Greenville left fifteen men here and
sailed away to England. What became
of them was never known. But h
small company of men and women were
afterwards left, who, it was hopes
would found q colony. Among them
was the daughter of Sir Richard, Mrs.
Dare. She had = daughter born to
her on August IS, l5S7-Vlr21nlh
Dare she was christened-and she was
the first English child born on
American soil. A story is told that
during several times the last hundred
years two families in Perquimans
| County have boosted of descent from
Virginia Dare. The boast is most
likely unwarranted. The truth Is the
whole colony my~s;eriousiy disappeared.
1t is improbable that they were muir
dered it is probable that they were
absorbed in the friendly tribe Of Indi-
ans that lived here. Long afterwards
a crew of adventures found strange
Indians on the island, some with au
burn hair and light eyes. Were these
the ancestors Of the proud old fami-
lies thar make boast of descent from the
house of Dare4 All that remains to
attest the existence of the first AmerI-
can-English child is the name of the
county. AS late as 1878, however. a
live oak was pointed cut on which the
absorbed immigrants cut the story OF
their degeneration.
What a field for romance and for
song these old stories give! 1t used to
be said that an antiquary In Edenton
an old town that has a more inter
esting history than any other obscuie
place III Tue OOutt OACCpe Ob' 1AoSu'
tine wrote a long piece, or poem abou:
the extinction Of the first English sets
tiers. He never found a publisher.
Whether his manuscripts is in existence
or not, who knows2
This is a land more of legend than
OF foot The sand sinks down to the
sea all around, so that one scarcely
recognizes in the distance the waste Of
sand from the waste Of water. Sea
gulls and wild vines. salt air aud scent
of the cedar, and that feeling that the
world which is AMI moves and has
change is so far Observation-Disclosures
ones ideas Of existence, and old Bar
lowe himself would not seem out o.
place were he found drawing in a ne'
on the beach. Legend or life? Bull,
on legend and sand, this town o
seventy five people the county seat O
a county Of a few more than three
thousand-what wonder that fact and
tradition should become so bleDdee
that Sir Walter Raleigh himself, a
enc story goes, planted the old vin'
and told his royal mistress strange
stories of an arcadia beyond the sea il
days when Krakens still ruled tn
deepi-C Correspondent NeU York World