Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . failed. Yet dreams of Roanoke and Croatarihaunted the English mind, and gallant young CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. 727. men often felt chivalric aspirations to search inthe forests of Virginia, among the people ofEarl Manteo—the first and last peer ever creat-ed in America—for Virginia Dare, the firstwhite child known to have been born on thecontinent, and left there, with her mother, v/henone of the last of Raleighs expeditions sailed forEurope. At that time the red man held swayover the whole North American continent. Dela Roche had atte
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . failed. Yet dreams of Roanoke and Croatarihaunted the English mind, and gallant young CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. 727. men often felt chivalric aspirations to search inthe forests of Virginia, among the people ofEarl Manteo—the first and last peer ever creat-ed in America—for Virginia Dare, the firstwhite child known to have been born on thecontinent, and left there, with her mother, v/henone of the last of Raleighs expeditions sailed forEurope. At that time the red man held swayover the whole North American continent. Dela Roche had attempted to settle Sable Island,on the coast of Nova Scotia, with men drawnfrom French prisons, but had failed. Gosnoldhad touched at Nahant, named Cape Cod, andbuilt a fort and store-house on one of the Eliza-beth Islands, but had fled to England in dismay-before the menaces of the Indians. Pring, andWeymouth the kidnapper, had visited the NewEngland coast, but left no seed for planting set-tlements ; and the Protestant I)e Monts was then transplanting Frenchmen in the soil ofNova Scotia and New Brunswick, and hadnamed the region Acadie. A long contest between Franc
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