The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-24

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June 26. They came to anchor at Wo-
kCken, where one of the SHIPS was
wrecked in the attempt to run her over
the bar of the nlet-the first recorded
shipwreck in the region OF Hatteras
| Sept. 3. Was written the fist letter
by an Englishman in America; it was
from the New Fort in Virginia" (Folt
Raleigh on Roanoke Island) and written
by Ralph Lane to Richard Hackluyt of
London.
Lanes colony remained in Virginia
North Carolna) one year wanting five
days, but lost only four of its number
and these died from natural causes.
1856. During his occupation Lane ex.
plored the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds
and their principal tributaries. He as
cended the Roanoke river, called by the
Indians, Mortatoc about as far as Well
don. He explored the Chowan, called -
the Indians Chowanoke, as far as Wyal.-
cke ferry, at the junction OF the Black
Water and Nottoway rivers. He went
North as far as the Elizabeth river ar .
reported to Raleigh it's commodious har
! bors and the deep waters of the Chesa-
! peake. Harriet wrote the best account
| OF these expeditions and a description of
the principal food plants and animals
which were found; and DERRY, in 1880,
published book illustrated with mars,
pictures and drawings of the sound sec
| tion of North Carolina it's inhabitants
and its food plants and animals. The
originals of these illustrations were made
b. John With whom Sir Walter Raleigh,
with the special approval of the Queen
/ OF h oh
for this purpose. The book is the joint
product of With, Hariot and DERRY, and
is the most definite and valuable early
English publication OF any part OF
America. These, with Barolwes and
| Lanes narratives, are the main sources
of the history of the earliest efforts to
COLOMBO America by the English.
| 1886, June 10. Lane and his colony
sailed for England in the fleet of Sir
Francis Drake They had been doing
we'll and were reasonably contented, but
the sight of English ships and sailors
made them homesick, and a terrible
storm, such as still rage around Hatteras.
completed their decentralization. They
landed in England, and Raleigh intro
duced from our shores the use of tobacco
in England and the culture of potatoes
| in Ireland. Shortly after the departure
OF the colonists, a ship loaded with pro-
visions for them arrived at Wokoken, but
soon sailed away for England.
/ fortnight later Sir Richard Grenvile
arrived and, finding none of Lanes colony,
he left fifteen men on Roanoke Island to
hold possession OF the country until they
could be relieved by a stronger force. No
white man ever beheld their faces again
The destruction of these men first proved
to the Indians that the English were hot
nvulnerable.
1887, May s. Raleigh's fourth expodi-
| ton sailed from Plymouth for the shores
OF North Carolina. 1t consisted of three
vessels with their crews and one hundred
and fifty colonists of whom, 81 men, II
women and children remained.
! The emigrants were under the command
of their governor, John White, they were
fated to become what is known in his
tory as the Lost Colony
July 16. They landed on that part of
the Banks then known as the Island of
! Croatoan lying to the south % Roanoke
| Island.
| July %. They arrived at Hattorask In
let and the same day passed over to
Roanoke Island where they learned the
fate of the fifteen men left there by
Grenville.
August 19. Manteo was christened
Lord of Roanoke and Dasamongue peuk"
by command of Sir Walter Raleigh.
August IS. Was born Virginia Dare
the first child of the English speaking
race born in America.
Aug. Was born-Harvie the first
American boy of that race.
August 81. Governor John White sailed
for England leaving his little colony to
its unknown fate in the wilds of America.
For three centuries the ingenuity OF
poets and historians has been exercised
to discover its history but the woods
have not given up their secret. Perhaps
the red men of Croatoan Island migrated
inland to what is now Poheson county
and carried the Lost Colony with
them. There still resides iii that region
a tribe of Indians of mixel blood calling
themselves by the mystic naTe of Croatan
and there still exists among them a ira
dition that they came from a reg'on called
Roanoke.
1888. Early in the year, Raleigh fitted
cut an expedition to relieve Whites col
ony and placed it under the command of
Sir Richard Granville, but. on account
of the war with Spain, it was not permit
ted to sail.
April %. Sent second relief expedi
ton consisting Of two little ships loaded
with provisions, but they we're captured
and stripped by pirates.
England being now menacad by the
great invasion from Spain, Raleigh as
signed his principal interests in Virgin
ia" to Sir Thomas Smith, Richard Hack
lIyt and others, who afterwards became
Under his inspiration, the chief promoters
O. the settlement at jamestown in what
is now the State of Virginia.
August The Spanish Armada was.
under Raleighs advice, attacked at sea
and destroyed before it could effect the
invasion of England. He was tine real
author of this victory which was the
turning point of England's greatness and
SPANS decline. 1t was in the destruction
OF the Armada that he reached the high
est point of his fortune and favor with
the Queen. He was as great and brave
as ever in the sea fight in the harbor of
Cadiz, and, in his expedition UP the Or
onoko river was as Jealous a. ever for the