. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . ed,left fifteen men to guard it andhimself proceeded southward topillage the Spaniards of the WestIndies. A second expedition, dis-patched by Raleigh, included manywomen, that families might beformed on the new soil and the colonists be satisfied to remain. This enter-prise was led by John White and eleven others, having a company arrival in Virginia White found only a skeleton to show where theformer settlement had been. Indian treachery was assigned as the reason forits disappearance. Actuated probably by a nervous
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . ed,left fifteen men to guard it andhimself proceeded southward topillage the Spaniards of the WestIndies. A second expedition, dis-patched by Raleigh, included manywomen, that families might beformed on the new soil and the colonists be satisfied to remain. This enter-prise was led by John White and eleven others, having a company arrival in Virginia White found only a skeleton to show where theformer settlement had been. Indian treachery was assigned as the reason forits disappearance. Actuated probably by a nervous anxiety. White massacredsome friendly Indians, under the impression that they were hostiles, and inAugust of 1587 returned to England for supplies, leaving behind him eighty-nine men, seventeen women, and eleven children, the youngest being hisown granddaughter, Virginia Dare, the first white child born in America. White arrived in England to find the nation preparing for a struggle withSpain. His return to the colonies was therefore delayed. Raleigh, finding. i- - ,, /- INDIAN VILLAGE ENCLOSED WITH PALISADES. {From the original drawing in the British Museuvi, made hy JohnWhite in 1583.) 46 THE FRENCH ATTEMPT COLONIZATION. himself impoverished by the former expeditions, which had cost him $200,000,made an assignment, under his patent, to a company which included White andone Thomas Smith. A new fleet was procured, though with considerabletrouble, and again the adventurers sought the Virginia coast, in 1590, only tofind that the unfortunate settlement of three years before had been utterly wipedout of existence. So ended the first English attempt to settle America. THE FRENCH ATTEMPT COLONIZATION. About the same time de La Roche, a Marquis of Brittany, obtained fromHenry IV of France a commission to take Canada. His company consistedlargely of convicts and criminals. Following him came Chauvin de Chatte, buthe accomplished little of permanent value. For some years followin
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