. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... fter theSpanish Fleet had been destroyed. Eventhen Raleigh, who had spent over forty thou-sand pounds without return, was unable tosend aid at once to the colony, and a yearelapsed before a vessel could be sent out un-der White. In 1590, the governor reachedRoanoke, but no trace of the colony couldbe found. The settlers had either died, beenmassacred, or taken prisoners. The conjecture has been hazarded, saysBancroft, that the deserted the
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... fter theSpanish Fleet had been destroyed. Eventhen Raleigh, who had spent over forty thou-sand pounds without return, was unable tosend aid at once to the colony, and a yearelapsed before a vessel could be sent out un-der White. In 1590, the governor reachedRoanoke, but no trace of the colony couldbe found. The settlers had either died, beenmassacred, or taken prisoners. The conjecture has been hazarded, saysBancroft, that the deserted their own countrymen, were hospitablyadopted into the tribe of Hatteras Indians,and became amalgamated with the sons ofthe forest. This was the tradition of thenatives at a later day, and was thought to beconfirmed by the physical character of thetribe, in which the English and the Indianrace seem to have been blended. Thegenerous heart of Raleigh could not bear toleave his countrymen unaided while a singlehope of finding them remained, and he issaid to have sent to America as many as fiveexpeditions at his own cost to search 79 MURDER OF WifJTES ASSISTANT THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY. 71 With the failure of the settlement atRoanoke Raleigh relinquished his hope ofcolonizing Virginia. He had expendednearly his entire fortune in the undertaking,and the remainder of his life was passed un-der the cloud of undeserved misfortune. Hiscareer as a statesman was honorable to him-self and to his country, and he proved him-self in all his acts a loyal subject and a de-voted patriot. His zeal in behalf of knowl-edge made him a generous friend of theie:irned, and he merits the gratitude of theAmerican people, not only for his efforts tocolonize our shores with his countrymen,but for the liberality with which he spreada knowledge of America throughout Eng-land by his publication of the reports ofHariot and Hakluyt. He opened the wayfor the dominion of the English in the newworld, and his
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