. Corn book for young folk. Corn. THE BEGINNING OF THE CORN CROP 11 In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh attempted the first English settlement in America. This colony started cabin homes on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Among the daring men who came with this col- ony were Thomas Hariot, a writer, and John White,. Fig. 5. Indian cooking Corn. (After John White) an artist. Hariot wrote, in what now seems to us queer spelling, the first article ever w^-itten about Indian corn. He thus describes the new plant: Pagatour, a kind of graine so called by the Indians; the same in the West Indies is called May
. Corn book for young folk. Corn. THE BEGINNING OF THE CORN CROP 11 In 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh attempted the first English settlement in America. This colony started cabin homes on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Among the daring men who came with this col- ony were Thomas Hariot, a writer, and John White,. Fig. 5. Indian cooking Corn. (After John White) an artist. Hariot wrote, in what now seems to us queer spelling, the first article ever w^-itten about Indian corn. He thus describes the new plant: Pagatour, a kind of graine so called by the Indians; the same in the West Indies is called Mayse ; Englishmen called it Guinney Wheate or Turkey Wheate according to the names of the countreys from whence the like hath. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Williams, Charles Burgess, 1871-1947; Hill, Daniel Harvey, 1859-1924. Boston, Ginn and Company
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