A history of Virginia for boys and girls . coast you will see thatthe island lies behind a long, narrow wall of sandybeach, between Pamlico Sound on the south andAlbemarle Sound on the north. AlbemarleSound is really the wide mouth of Roanoke River,which pours its waters down from the far-awaymountains, through Virginia and North Carolina. VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIA DARE 5 To Roanoke Island Sir Walter Raleigh sent acolony. When it failed he sent another. Allthis took time —three or four years,though it does nottake long to tellabout it. In Raleighs secondcolony was the Darefamily. Dare was agood na
A history of Virginia for boys and girls . coast you will see thatthe island lies behind a long, narrow wall of sandybeach, between Pamlico Sound on the south andAlbemarle Sound on the north. AlbemarleSound is really the wide mouth of Roanoke River,which pours its waters down from the far-awaymountains, through Virginia and North Carolina. VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIA DARE 5 To Roanoke Island Sir Walter Raleigh sent acolony. When it failed he sent another. Allthis took time —three or four years,though it does nottake long to tellabout it. In Raleighs secondcolony was the Darefamily. Dare was agood name for peoplegoing into a strange,wild country, was itn-ot? Mr. Daresgiven name was Ana-nias ; his wifes namewas Eleanor, Soonafter they reachedRoanoke Island alittle daughter wasborn to them. Theycalled her probably gaveher this name inhonor of the Queenand because they had come to make their home inthis new land which was called Virginia. Virginia Dare was a good name. It seemedto have a note of prophecy in it. It seemed. WILLIAMS tNGBAViun A MAP OF THE VIRGINIA-CAROLINA COAST 6 A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA to tell of a spirit that was to make Virginiagreat. The little girl, Virginia Dare, was, so far as weknow, the first child born of English parents inAmerica. We cannot help wishing that we knewher whole story. What became of her is one ofthe sad mysteries of those early days. Virginia Dares grandfather, John White, hadbeen appointed by Raleigh as governor of theRoanoke colony. When Virginia was only tendays old Governor White got on a ship and startedback to England. He had to go back for morefood and other supplies. He expected to returnto Roanoke Island soon ; but in those days, whenships had to depend on the winds, it often took sixmonths or longer to make a trip across the At-lantic and back. Governor White did not get back to RoanokeIsland for nearly four years. A war in Europebetween England and Spain had delayed him morethan the uncertain winds. When h
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