men besides families of artizans on board,--had arrived at the
mouth of the St. John's River on August 29, 1565. The four left
outside, as seen by Menendez, were at the time disembarking their
passengers.

[3] When the French Government learned of this massacre, the event
did not arouse any particular interest. Indeed, the colony seems
not to have had any special protection from the home authorities.
Had the contrary been the case, it would have been easily possible
for the French to have built up a flourishing colony in America
nearly half a century before the English were ever established in
the new world.




SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S VIRGINIA COLONIES

(1584-1587)

I

THE ACCOUNT BY JOHN A. DOYLE[1]


The task in which Gilbert[2] had failed was to be undertaken by one
better qualified to carry it out. If any Englishman in that age seemed
to be marked out as the founder of a colonial empire, it was Raleigh.
Like Gilbert, he had studied books; like Drake, he could rule men. The
pupil of Coligny, the friend of Spenser, traveler-soldier, scholar,