. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... s, suffering horrible torturesfrom hunger and thirst, eating the soles of their shoes, and lapping upwith parched tongues the blessed night-dew when it fell. In thistime two died, and were cast overboard. On the seventh day the pin-nace floated ashore at Ne^vfoundland, and the fourteen survivors, hag-gard, starved, and meagre, landed there. Afterwards an Englishship took them back to London. This was the end of the first voyage. After that Sir Walt
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... s, suffering horrible torturesfrom hunger and thirst, eating the soles of their shoes, and lapping upwith parched tongues the blessed night-dew when it fell. In thistime two died, and were cast overboard. On the seventh day the pin-nace floated ashore at Ne^vfoundland, and the fourteen survivors, hag-gard, starved, and meagre, landed there. Afterwards an Englishship took them back to London. This was the end of the first voyage. After that Sir Walter Raleioh bought the whole of Sir Hum-phreys patent, and began to fit out a second expedition. SirWalter would have liked to command this in person, but he hadhis hands full in England. He was one of the favorite courtiers ofQueen Elizabeth, and you know what an exacting mistress she was,— so vain, so eager for admiration, and so jealous lest any of herlords should show preference for any one except herself, that sheconstantly kept poor Sir Walter in trouble. Between trying tokeep in her good grace and not make himself too much a slave to. 62 STORY OF OUK COUNTRY. her whims, he seems to have had a hard time of it. Then he hadpowerful enemies, because his rivals saw that the queen really favoredhim, and that made them jealous and ready to plot against he found he could not go in person he sent two of his friends,Arthur Barlow and Philip Aniydos, to explore. Coming back theygave such glowing accounts of the beauty of the country that Raleighlaid their descriptions before Elizabeth, and the land was namedVirginia, in honor of that princess, who was known as the VirginQueen. In this very year, 1585, on a beautiful summer day, Sir RichardGrenville started for America with SirWalters first colony. They landed on anisland called Roanoke, just outside Roan-oke Inlet, and began the first English col-ony in America. Soon after leaving themSir Richard returned to England for m
Size: 1578px × 1584px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectuniteds, bookyear1881
