meanwhile coming up from St. Augustine, which he had just
destroyed, put in at Roanoke in 1586, and the whole company
returned to England with him. Grenville afterward arrived in
Roanoke, finding no one there. He then returned to England, leaving
on the island fifteen men. In the following year Raleigh sent out
to Roanoke John White. When White arrived he found that these men
had all been massacred by the Indians. Other expeditions were sent
out later, but none was able to establish any colony at Roanoke.
Lane's account is printed In "Old South Leaflets."




III

THE BIRTH OF VIRGINIA DARE[1]

(1587)

BY JOHN WHITE


The two and twentieth day of July we came safely to Cape Hatteras,
where our ship and pinnace anchored. The Governor went aboard the
pinnace accompanied by forty of his best men, intending to pass up to
Roanoke. He hoped to find those fifteen Englishmen whom Sir Richard
Grenville had left there the year before. With these he meant to have
a conference concerning the state of the country and the savages,
intending then to return to the fleet and pass along the coast to the
Bay of Chesapeake. Here we intended to make our settlement and fort