The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-07-02

oOPP1lOo CIIlu plCllCy VI dIlllS.
Englishmen saw the Is no more,
for when a year later John White
came over he was told by the
savages that these men had eth
er been killed by the Indians or
drowned while trying to go from
Roanoke island to CrOatan.
COLONISTS LIKED COUNTRY.
The colonists were charmed |
with the country, finding grapes
very sweet and large; papatour,
which is now known as Indian |
corn; Opernauk, the native name
for the potato now known as the
Irish potato, and the uppowoc,
or tobacco, which was so much
affected by the Indian and which
made itself a wonder among the
Engllshmen at once on both sides
of the ocean. In 1887 Sir Walter
Raleigh, with his usual persever-
ance, made ready a new colony,
made John White the Governor,
with IL assistants, who were vir-
tually named as aldermen, of what
was to be the "City of Raleigh
in Virginia.. This colony num-
bered III, of whom II were wo-
men, 10 of these accompanying
their husbands. Roanoke has
really a very poor harbor and
Raleigh told his people to make
their home on the Chesapeake
bay, to which one party of Gov
ernor Lanes explorers had gone,
but this step was not taken. 1t
was the 22d of July when the lit
tie fleet reached this coast and
Governor White at once started
to Roanoke island. White had
been with Grenville on the 1886
expedition. He was one of the
best artists of his time and made
very beautiful and exact pictures
of the natives, as we'll as the fau-
ma and flora Cf the new country,
these being shown to Raleigh
and aiding much in developing
interest in the work of colonial
ton. In 1890 they were engrav-
ed on copper and printed in a
number of languages by Theo-
dore DeBry, the chief German
artist and printer of that time.
White was of pacific temper and
his purpose was to be friendly tC
the Indians. AS soon as his boat
had pushed off from the ship he
said that the sailors in the latter
had been directed not to take back
to England any Of the planters
but to leave them on the island
1t was three days before the
planters arrived, and they, stur
! dy men and women, prepared
to make their home on the is
land. On the 18th Of August
1887, Manteo, who remained tn
faithful friend Of the Indians
] was baptized by a clergyman Of
:. The Established Church and wa
made Lord of Roanoke and Das
,, samOnguepeuk, this being tn
J only title of nobility ever give
= to native of the new world b.
= English authorization. Fiv,
u days after this baptism Govern
;, or Whites daughter, Eleano
y Dare, the wife of Ananias Dare
8 one of the assistants, gave birt
y to daughter who was christer
ed Virginia" and who was tn
+ first child of English parentag
q born in this hemisphere. Th
- colonists found they needed man
:. 3 things, in spite of what wa
& thought to be the ample provi;
y ion for them, and they by vot
+ decided that White, their Govel
h h nor, should go home as an ager
h h for all, so as to supply ever
- - need.
IS RALEIGH'S TROUBLES.
le He sailed nine days after h
l. baby granddaughter had bee
" baptized and his eyes were tt
$ last which saw the ill-fated colol
a lists. England was then in a sti
y The great fight against Roma
m Catholic Spain was on and tt
IS country needed every man to {
le his duty. With wonderful pc
y severence, in the midst of all Il
l. terrors of the time, Raleigh four
)e means to send White back
a Virginia in 1888. He sailed
d, April with Is more planters al
t. bountiful supplies but his vesse
eff met war vessels of France al
O. one of them was boarded al
ly plundered. Both vessels r
to turned to England. This W
n the last effort that year to he
ed the Roanoke colonists, and lit w
IS, in February, 1891, that Viii
IN through Raleigh's infuenc
nd started for Virginia. The col
,r. mander of his little fleet thoug
ed more Of plundering the Spaniar
he and the French than of the ne
ne colony and so it was August
h fore the latter was reache
to Heavy storms came on and sew
gn of the best men were lost by t
in capsizing of a boat in trying
go reach Roanoke island. One
ad the paintings made by White
W. in 1886 showed a small boat So
lis ing towards that island, in
ac- bow standing a man holdi
lat aloft the cross. On this rel
it visit White went personally il
ne boat and after a trying jeurn
ch anchored at night in a little t
ro- Continued on fourth page.
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