Elementary history of the United States . England. Sir Walter Raleigh, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, un-dertook to colonize sent out a party intwo ships, which reachedthe coast of l^orth Caro-lina. They found a richand pleasant land, occu-pied by a friendly Indian queen enter-tained them on Ro-a-noke Island. Persuad-ing two natives to accom-pany them, they returnedto England, and gave soglowing an account of the country they had visited, thatthe Yirgin Queen, Elizabeth, was delighted, and namedit in honor of herself, Yieginia. 4. Raleigh, thus encouraged, sent out a number ofem
Elementary history of the United States . England. Sir Walter Raleigh, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, un-dertook to colonize sent out a party intwo ships, which reachedthe coast of l^orth Caro-lina. They found a richand pleasant land, occu-pied by a friendly Indian queen enter-tained them on Ro-a-noke Island. Persuad-ing two natives to accom-pany them, they returnedto England, and gave soglowing an account of the country they had visited, thatthe Yirgin Queen, Elizabeth, was delighted, and namedit in honor of herself, Yieginia. 4. Raleigh, thus encouraged, sent out a number ofemigrants. They settled on the pleasant fields of Roa-noke Island; but their governors were imprudent. Oneof them burned an Indian village, because a silver cupwas stolen from his men. Another fell on a party offriendly Indians, thinking them to be enemies, and killedseveral before he found out his mistake. Such acts madethe natives angry and revengeful. Some of the settlersbecame disheartened, and returned to England. The restwere SiE Waltee Ealekjh. 1587] THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS. 29 5. Still Raleigli was not discouraged. He sent outmore settlers to Roanoke, who laid out the citj ofRaleigh. Their governor went back to England forsupplies, and was absent two years. On his return to theisland, there was not a white man to be seen. Whetherthey had been killedor carried off by theIndians, was neverfound out. 6. Sir Walter Ra-leighs means werenow spent, and hehad to give up hisattempts to colonizeVirginia. Thoughhe was afterward be-headed on a chargeof treason, he is re-garded as one of thegreatest men of hisday. The state ofNorth Carolina hascaUed its capital Ra-LEiGU in his honor. 7. Raleigh wasthe first to introduce potatoes into Europe. He plantedsome on his Irish estates. Others obtained seed fromhim, and now potatoes are the chief food of the poorin Ireland. He brought over from America anotherthing, which the people of Europe could have done with-out,—and that is, toba
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