. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... was the month of July,*and the climate was delightful, the sea waScalm, the atmosphere clear, and the heat wastempered by the delicious sea-breeze. Thewoods abounded with birds and echoed withtheir carols, and wild grapes were found it* 6c. disco\i:kv oi- Till-: wkstern continit. aiul Ralpli 1 ..uio. who was dolii^hthil roi^ion, aiul returning; to luii; i^lowiiu:^ aicounts o( it. Thoytook witli ihcwx t\vv> liuli.»i\s, innuxl ai
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... was the month of July,*and the climate was delightful, the sea waScalm, the atmosphere clear, and the heat wastempered by the delicious sea-breeze. Thewoods abounded with birds and echoed withtheir carols, and wild grapes were found it* 6c. disco\i:kv oi- Till-: wkstern continit. aiul Ralpli 1 ..uio. who was dolii^hthil roi^ion, aiul returning; to luii; i^lowiiu:^ aicounts o( it. Thoytook witli ihcwx t\vv> liuli.»i\s, innuxl aiul Matitco, the latter of whom at\er-wanls d\(\ t;ooil serviee to the colonists as aninterpreter. Queeti Vli/.abeth ilecnieil herreign honored l\\ the «.Usco\eries of Aniiilas also a man ot considerable distinctiini, wasmade i;overnor of the colon\-. The tleet sailcil lro»n riymouth on tlioninth of April, I5vi5,and atler a Ion;,; andtryini:^ vo)ai;e reached Ocracock Inlet inlune. Passing throngh the inlet, a settle-ment was eslahlishcil on Roanoke Island,. lUOr-U--Ul K AM ;i> >M and Barlow, and gave to the new region thename of Virginia in honor of Vnglands vir-gin qneen. Raleigh at once set to work to organize acolony. Emigrants volnnteered readily, andin a short time a tleet of seven vessels, con-taining one hundred and eight persons, apartfrom the crrws. was in readiness. Sir Rich-aril Grenville, a friend of Raleigh, at\d a manâ¢f tried skill and braver\. was given the c>m- rs r\»iNv; ^;ki-i:nwicu. Iving between Albemarle and Pamlico were sent out to explore thesurrounding country, and in one of these asilver cup was stolen b\ an Indian, and itsrestonition was delayed. With thoughtlesscruelty Grenville punished this fauc by thedestruction o\ the village to which the culpritbelonged, and also of all the standing inconsiderate revenge made the Indiansthe enemies of the whites, and brought great - fnc 1 IRST K,\(;]J MI (.()IJ)S
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