Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-13
Raleieh's Lost Colony.

There lives III the woods and swamps
of Robeson county, North Carolina, a
strange group of people, in appearance
somewhat resembling Portuguese or
Mulattoes. Their manners, customs and
personal appearance are unlike those
Of any other race on the American con-
tiaent, and intercourse with their
neighbors, white and colored. iS limit
cd to the extent which necessity de-
mands
Harking back TO 1887, it Will be re-
called that one of the expeditions of
colonists sent out from England by Sir
Walter Raleigh. arrived on Roanoke
Island, North Carolira, under the COM
mand of Captain John White Several
previous bands of cclonists have been
accounted for, but Captain White new
er saw his people after he left them on
Roanoke Island and turned to England
for supplies and provisions. Among
those remaining on the island were his
own daughter, Eleanor, wife of Annias
Dare. and little Virginia Dare. his
granddaughter, who was born after the
| mother reached Roanoke. The grim old
Indians and their dusky squaws looked
with wonder and admiration on this
little stranger, calling her the White
Doe" In the light of succeeding events
| it is interesting to know Gas reported
| by White that friendly feeling was dis
played by the Indians toward this par
| tieular band of colonists which was the
only company sent out from England
| having women and children among the
| number.
On reaching England White found
| the whole country alarmed and excited
| over the threatened invasion by Spain
| with her so-called "invincibie armada.
| Raleigh, Grenville and Lane. the three
| individuals on whom the relief of the
| cClopy depended, were all members of
| the council of war, but Notwithstanding
the troublous times. Raleigh and White
| fitted out three expeditions, two of
| which, owing to the war. never left
| England. The third, under White, final
! ly reached Roanoke in 1891 In his re-
| port to Raleigh, White said. Upon APP
| rroaching the island, we sounded q sig
nal trumpet but no answer disturbed
/ the melancholy stiffness" The little
! band of colonists had departed. leaving
| only the word "Croatoan" carved on an
| oak tree as q clew to their destination
| 1t had previously been agreed between
| White and the colonists that if for any
reason their will before his return a
cross should be carved above the word
! AS nc cross was found, it was believed
| that their necessities induced them to
| go to the mainland with a friendly tribe
of Indians. Years afterward, when the
| country had become sparsely settled
| by the English offshoots of the james
town settlement of 1907, and when tho
| Tuscarora Indians were the dominant
| tribe, ii was a tradition among them
| that i'm the interior there We're white
| men and women who were members OF
| a smaller pand Of Indians, and that
| these men possessed many of the gifts
OF the English An historian living in
| North Carolina in 1714, wrote, '"Fho
Hatteras Indians. who lived on Roa-
| noke, or much frequented it, tell us
| that their ancestors were white people
| and could talk out of n book as we do
the truth of which is confirmed by gray
eyes and light hair found among these
| Indians as among no others"
| 1t is now a well established fact that
| the descendants of this tribe of Indi-
| ans are at this time living in Robson
county, where more tnan thirty families
have names similar to those of Whites
colonists, and many old English words
and rltdely formed utensils of English
/ origin are in common use among them
Southern Workman.