The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . ships. An Indianchief who visited the ships fancied a bright tin dishmore than anything else the white men had. Havingprocured it by exchange, he made a hole in it, andhung it on his breast as an ornament. i6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. The expeditiireturns. Raleghs expedition stayed about six weeks in theNew World, and, everything here being strange to theeyes of the explorers, they fell into many mistakes intrying to describe what they saw and heard. Whenthey got back to England, they declared that the partof
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . ships. An Indianchief who visited the ships fancied a bright tin dishmore than anything else the white men had. Havingprocured it by exchange, he made a hole in it, andhung it on his breast as an ornament. i6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. The expeditiireturns. Raleghs expedition stayed about six weeks in theNew World, and, everything here being strange to theeyes of the explorers, they fell into many mistakes intrying to describe what they saw and heard. Whenthey got back to England, they declared that the partof America they had seen was the paradise of theworld. Ralegh was much encouraged by the accounts whichhis two captains gave of the new country they hadfound. It was named Virginia at this time, in honornf Oiieen Elizabeth, who was the Virgin Queen. Butthe name Virginia, which we ap-ply to two of our States, was then used for all the territoriesclaimed by the English in Amer-ica—that is to say, for the wholecoast of the United States betweend Georgia, so far as it. #?/J ^> 1^M\i^~K IS known. In 15S5, the year after the return ofuEEN ELIZABETH. thc first cxpeditlou, Ralegh sent out a colony to remain in America. Sir Richard Grenville,a famous seaman, had command of this expedition; buthe soon returned to England, leaving the colony incharge of Ralph Lane. There were no women inRalph Lanes company. They made their settlementon Roanoke Island, which lies near to the coast ofNorth Carolina, and they explored the mainland inmany directions. They spent much time in trying tofind gold, and they seem to have thouglit that theshell-beads worn by thc Indians were pearls. Like all S//? WALTER RALEGHS COLONY. 1/
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