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make,h young man 60 he old. ~tsh-
out either wrinkles OF gray hairs.
pFiviliginE him with the expcrlSnes
OF age. without either the sanTmItisa
or inconvenience thereof
Ia attemptin' 20 give ar insiie lnto
Carolina and what hes bin done. an
IS now doin'. ! will not stick very
closely 10 ans certain text hut
viii Civ hit truthfuily an in my own
words. style. etc. And | wtll fry 10
dig up some more or less new facts.
either unknown. or. II known 10 the
educated reader. Others. especially the
boys and girls. may not be familiar
with the history. for history. like
other thinge. may be. an often ix.
soon forgotten. in part. At least
America wuz disco sered in issz
by Christopher Columbus. ov Spain.
Columbus wuz a sailor an he Eot hlt
into hiz head somehow that they wuz
a great country far acrost the hriny
waters OF the Atlantic ocean. An
Columbus couldn't rest any more iii
he did some discoverin'. Tho Span
ish ruler helped him TO fl up some
ships an ne set sail 20 fnd what IL
now called America. He found the
new country after along search and
went back aud reported. Hut bit
didn's create much excitement. A
new continent or two I'm those days
wuz ov but little importance 20 any
except few people. The Spanish
at that time wer an easy soIn' peo-
pie. and they seemed 10 think that
America would never amount 30
much. But the discovery caused
more or less talk an then hit sor,er
died down.
In 1897 John Cabot. an English
man. headed an expedition to look
at the new land. He landed on the
coast ov Labrador an looked around
a little. But hit wuz not until 1884.
nearly a hundred years later. that
Sir Walter Raleigh. an Englishman.
started out to see what the new con-
tinent might amount TO. Hiz ships
sailed from England In April. 1884.
and landed on the North carolina
shore In July OF the same year Sir
Walter Raleigh did not accompany
the expedition. however. hit bein' un-
der the command ov two captains,
Phillip Amidas and Arthur Barlow
by name. Amidas took possession
ov the country In the name ov
Queen Elizabeth. ov England
In April. 1855. an expedition
sailed from England for America
with view TO settlement. This
wuz commanded by Sir Richard
Greenville. The party consisted ov
about one hundred and ten persons.
What became ov them IL still a mys-
terry. They were probably killed By
the Indians. however. A second ex-
pedition cum over an landed fifteen
men on Roanoke Island OF the North
Carolina coast. These men awiso
disappeared. Later. John White. ac-
companied By eighty-nine men. sew
enteen women and two children.
formed a settlement on the end ov
Roanoke Island. Here wuz born
Virginia Dare. the first white child
ka
City OF Raleigh" wuz formally laid
out on Roanoke Island. but wuz
later moved TO what IL nov Wake
County. q much better location. The
settlement on Roanoke Island proved
failure. some ov the historians
holdin' that the whites amaIgamated
with the Indians This iz only .
theory. however. Sir Walter Ra-
leigh wuz finally imprisoned and la
ter wuz beheaded In 1913. though
he wuz guilty ov no crime
In 1907 a colony wuz planted AZ
jamestown. Va, b. Capt John
Smith The Smiths bein' a very nu-
merous an war-like people. the In
dians probably got scared and didn't
dare XIII the members ov that col
ony. not all ov them. az any rate.
Capt John Smith wux a fighter.
an he managed the affairs ov the
colony In manner that enabled hit
10 succeed But the Indians finally
got Capt. Smith. and mite hev killed
him but for the fact that Pocahon-
tas, an Indiaa maiden. daughter ov
the great chief. Powhatan. stood be-
tween Capt Smith and the Indian
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