The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . de. Em-boldened by success, the Indians, gliding up by night, killed two OR, OUR COUNTRY S ACHIEVEMENTS. 163 sentinels on the walls of the fort, and startled the astonished Spaniardsby showers of fiery arrows, with which they succeeded in setting fireto the palmetto thatch ou the store-house, which was destroyed with all the munitions, pro-visions, and clothing itcontained. The confla-gration spread to thedwellings, and all wasdismay and alarm in thelittle town. In vain,even by day, did theSpania
The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . de. Em-boldened by success, the Indians, gliding up by night, killed two OR, OUR COUNTRY S ACHIEVEMENTS. 163 sentinels on the walls of the fort, and startled the astonished Spaniardsby showers of fiery arrows, with which they succeeded in setting fireto the palmetto thatch ou the store-house, which was destroyed with all the munitions, pro-visions, and clothing itcontained. The confla-gration spread to thedwellings, and all wasdismay and alarm in thelittle town. In vain,even by day, did theSpaniards seek to drivethem off. The Indians,lurking in the tall grass,watched them fire, andthen, gliding along onthe ground like snakes,sent their arrows withterrible aim. Melendez, hearing ofall these troubles, re-turned to St. Augustine,restored order, cjuietedthe Indians, and su])-pressed the mutinies. Hethen sailed up to St. Helena Sound, which you will see on the ma))of South Carolina. There he built Fort St. Philip, leaving Stephen deAlas in command, with one hundred and ten men. He had thus. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 1G4 THE STORT OF A GREAT NATION; explored the coast from the Florida capes to South Carolina ; buthe did not rest even then. He ascended the St. Johns River expeditions and missionaries up even into Chesapeake Bay,where, as early as 1570, a log-chapel was reared on the soil ofVirginia. It .seemed as if the whole coast was to become a colony of this man of energy was not to be long in Florida. Returningto Spain, he was appointed by the king to command the InvincibleArmada for the invasion of England, and died in 1574, just as hewas about to sail with it. With his death the interest in Florida declined ; the settlementswere confined to the iiart now known as Florida. There the Spaniardssoon, by means of zealous missionaries, gained the Timuquan andApalache Indians, although many of those devoted men lost theirlives in this good work. In 1586, Sir Fran
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