A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ition first lauded. But indescribing the boundaries of the territoiT under the separate rule of different Indian chiefs,the southernmost town of one of them is placed on what is now known as Pamlico River,and Wocokon is referred to as not far distant. The unnamed island where they first wentashore, was, says Captain Barlows narrative, about twen
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ition first lauded. But indescribing the boundaries of the territoiT under the separate rule of different Indian chiefs,the southernmost town of one of them is placed on what is now known as Pamlico River,and Wocokon is referred to as not far distant. The unnamed island where they first wentashore, was, says Captain Barlows narrative, about twenty miles from Roanoke Island;and from the Occam — Albemarle Sound—at the entrance of which lay Roanoke, to the 1 In Hakluyt, vol. iii.,p. 246. 1584.] RALEIGHS FIRST EXPEDITION. 243 lish blood on the shores of the New World were made not at Ocracokebut on the low sandy beach of Chickconocomack Bank, still Exact pointoften called by the people of the neighborhood Hatteras, ^* Hatteras, or Hatteras Bank. And as the inlet, through whichthe ships of Amadas and Barlow entered Pamlico Sound, was twentymiles from Roanoke Island, that channel must in the course of timehave been filled by the shifting sands, while New Inlet, which is only. Map in Harlots Relation. [Fac-sinriiie.] twelve and a half miles from Roanoke, has been formed — as its nameimplies — since the settlement of the country. The ships had not long to wait for a visit from the natives. Onthe third day came three Indians across the sound in canoes, yj^j<.g ^^^^one of whom ventured boldly among the strangers, was shown *^^ the ships, entertained with wine and food, and made happy bypresents of a shirt and some other trifles. In return he loaded his Indian town near Wocokon, was four days journey. Then Strachey, who was the firstsecretary of the first permanent Virginia colony, founded twenty-three years afterward, andwho was probably familiar with the wliole region, says of Amadas and Ba
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