What to see in America . ed, VirginiaDare was born. She was the first English child born on thesoil of the United States. Friendly Indians, who admiredthe beauty of the fair-skinned baby, called her the WhiteFawn, and her mother the White Doe. Governor Whitesoon went back to England for supphes, and was detainedfor three years by war with Spain. When he again arrivedat Roanoke Island he found only silence and decay, and nosearching there or on the adjacent mainland gave any clewas to what had become of the colony. But many years after-ward children were observed among the local Indians withlig
What to see in America . ed, VirginiaDare was born. She was the first English child born on thesoil of the United States. Friendly Indians, who admiredthe beauty of the fair-skinned baby, called her the WhiteFawn, and her mother the White Doe. Governor Whitesoon went back to England for supphes, and was detainedfor three years by war with Spain. When he again arrivedat Roanoke Island he found only silence and decay, and nosearching there or on the adjacent mainland gave any clewas to what had become of the colony. But many years after-ward children were observed among the local Indians withlight hair and eyes, and it was believed that they weredescendants of the Roanoke settlers who had been adoptedby native tribes. In 1629 King Charles I established as a province all theland from AlbemarleSound to the River and di-rected that it becalled Carolina, aname derived fromthe Latin form ofhis own name. Forexactly a centuryafterward there wasonly one Carolina. Then the region was Cape Hatteras Lighthouse ,/. 164 What to See in America divided into North and South colonies. The earhest settle-ments destined to be permanent were made on the north-eastern borders, beside the Chowan and Roanoke rivers, byVirginians in 1G53. The lonely and dangerous waters off the North Carolinacoast used to be a haunt of pirates, one of the most activeof whom was Blackbeard. On his swift-sailing ship, theAdventure, he was the terror of Southern commerce. He hada home not far from Bath, a little way inland from PamlicoSound, on the banks of a river of the same name. Aftersome of his wild cruises he would swagger into the town, andwith oaths and savage threats drive all the citizens from thestreets. At length he seemed to grow weary of piracy,settled down on shore, and married his thirteenth soon, however, he went off to sea again with a rollick-ing crowd of cutthroats. A Virginia schooner sent to put astop to his marauding fell in with him in 1718 off OcracokeInlet, which c
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