An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ored, when the navigatorsreturned home, carrying with them two natives, Manteo and Wanchese. They gave a most flattering report of the country, declaringits soil to be the most plentiful, sweet, fruitful, and wholesome ofall the world; and the people the most gentle, loving, and faith-ful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manneiof the golden age. The desi
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . ored, when the navigatorsreturned home, carrying with them two natives, Manteo and Wanchese. They gave a most flattering report of the country, declaringits soil to be the most plentiful, sweet, fruitful, and wholesome ofall the world; and the people the most gentle, loving, and faith-ful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manneiof the golden age. The desire to possess so delightful a region aroused a spirit oludventure hitherto unknown in England. Determined to establisha colony, Raleigh immediately fitted out seven small vessels, mannedwith a hundred and eight men, under Sir Richard Grenville. Thefillet sailed in April, 1585, and, after a circuitous voyage, by way ofthe Canaries and West Indies, reached the coast of Carolina, in thelatter end of June. They found the country as had been described-to them, and after landing, penetrated some distance into the inte-rior. The Indians, gratified by former presents, received them with ^ane explores the roaxoke. 205. GHS-NVTLLS BURNINa INDIAN VILLAQH. delight; but their kindness met with an ill reward. Missing a silvercup, the English, in revenge, set fire to a village and devastated theadjoining fields. They then chose a spot near the shore as a placefor settling. The great object of these adventurers appears to have been thediscovery of gold. Dreams of lands whose forests dripped withprecious aroniatics, whcse rivers washed down sands of gold, orsparkhng gems—of an El Dorado, whose gorgeous magnificenceand mines of inexhaustible wealth realized the wildest romances ofMarco PAo or Ariosto—formed the main-spring of exertion. No oneimagined that the first duty of a fresh colony is an immediate tillageof the soil. In August, Grenville sailed for England, leaving the managementof
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