A history of the United States for schools . sh cruisers beganto lie in wait for these ships, and to capture them withtheir treasure. For boldness and vigilance Queen Eliza-beths sea-captains have never been surpassed. Some-times they would sail into Spanish harbors and sink thewar-ships and burn the merchant vessels in full sight ofthe people; this dangerous pastime was called singe-ing the King of Spains beard. After this sort of thinghad gone on for some years, England began to feel her-self stronger and more at home upon the ocean than Spain. 31. Sir Walter Ra-leigh. These greatEnglish cru
A history of the United States for schools . sh cruisers beganto lie in wait for these ships, and to capture them withtheir treasure. For boldness and vigilance Queen Eliza-beths sea-captains have never been surpassed. Some-times they would sail into Spanish harbors and sink thewar-ships and burn the merchant vessels in full sight ofthe people; this dangerous pastime was called singe-ing the King of Spains beard. After this sort of thinghad gone on for some years, England began to feel her-self stronger and more at home upon the ocean than Spain. 31. Sir Walter Ra-leigh. These greatEnglish cruisers werealso great explorers,Drake and Cavendishcarried Queen Eliza-beths flag into thePacific, visited thecoast of California,and circumnavigatedthe earth. Frobisher,in quest of a north-western passage toIndia, entered theSIR WALTER Arctic Occan and ex- plored a part of the thoughts of Sir Walter Raleigh were busy withgrander schemes than these. Raleigh was one of the1 From Stalkers engraving published in London in § 31- THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA. 6^ most accomplished men of his time; he was somethingof a philosopher, poet, historian, and statesman, as wellas a brilliant captain. In 1569, when he was seventeenyears old, he served in the religious wars in France underthe great Coligny, who was probably the first person toconceive the idea of planting in America a state thatshould be entirely Protestant. We have seen how thecolony in Florida, which Coligny tried to found, was de-stroyed by the Spaniards; but the idea lived on in themind of Raleigh, who aspired to plant an English nationin America. In 1584, he obtained from the queen per-mission to make a settlement upon any territory „ , . ,,not already occupied by any Christian power; attempt toand forthwith he devoted himself to the work starting such a settlement upon the coast of ^ss*-^^. He sent several expeditions under ablecaptains, though arduous duties at home prevented
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