. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . that the Indians mightof them at aU. In 1585 the colonyland, ofl: the coast of North promised ship with provisionsthe men were homesick, they pre-ferred to search for gold rather thanto work, and the governor de-clared that they talked toonmch! An English vesselcame to the island, andthey all went home. Theycarried with them pota-toes and tobacco, and fromthat day to this, as hasbeen said, the air of Eng-land has never been freefrom tobacco smoke. Two years later Ra-leigh sent out a secondcolony to the sameplace,
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . that the Indians mightof them at aU. In 1585 the colonyland, ofl: the coast of North promised ship with provisionsthe men were homesick, they pre-ferred to search for gold rather thanto work, and the governor de-clared that they talked toonmch! An English vesselcame to the island, andthey all went home. Theycarried with them pota-toes and tobacco, and fromthat day to this, as hasbeen said, the air of Eng-land has never been freefrom tobacco smoke. Two years later Ra-leigh sent out a secondcolony to the sameplace, this time of men, wo-men, and children. Not Spanish tkeasuki; . after they landed, there was born to the governors daughter His seconda little girl, who was the first child born in America of EngUsh ^^ °^^parents. She was named Virginia Dare. No one knows whatbecame of this little American girl, for the governor had to returnto England; and when three years later he was able to go backto the colony, the little granddaughter and all the other colonists. 30 OUR COUNTRYS STORY had disappeared. There is a tradition that some Indians were atfirst kind to them, but afterwards murdered nearly all. It wasrumored that one young girl was among the few that the savagesspared, but whether it was the child Virgmia, no one can telLlialeigh had not forgotten the colonists during those three
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