“HE TURNED JUST IN TIME TO ESCAPE AN ARROW.”
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VIRGINIA DARE
A Romance of the Sixteenth Century
BY
E. A. B. S.,
AUTHOR OF “CECIL’S STORY OF THE DOVE,” “STORIES OF
EASTER-TIDE,” ETC.
NEW YORK:
THOMAS WHITTAKER
2 and 3 Bible House
1892
Copyright, 1892,
By Thomas Whittaker.
GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO OUR RECTOR
AND FRIEND,
Reverend Joseph Carey, D.D.,
OF
SARATOGA SPRINGS.
PREFACE.
The author would like to remind the readersof the romance of Virginia Dare, that if theygo back in memory to their schooldays, and thedetails of their American history, they will rememberthat Governor White sailed for Englandfrom Roanoke on the 28th of August,1587, leaving behind him his daughter, and herchild who had been born ten days before; thathe was unable to return immediately, owing towar with Spain, and when after the lapse of thethree years he did return, he found the islandof Roanoke deserted, and a palisade built, as ifthere had been a fight with the Indians. Hefound no cross, as he had directed them to putone if they were in trouble, over the name ofthe place to which they had removed. But hefound on one tree the first three letters of theword “Croatoan,” and on another the entireword. They attempted to find Croatoan, but,losing their anchors, were obliged to drift awayand give up the search.
CHAPTER I.
VIRGINIA DARE:
A ROMANCE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER I.
“We’ve got a bright lookout, if this day isthe foreteller of what our nation is to be in thisnew land;” and the speaker threw down hishunting-knife with a satirical laugh.
“Well, Jake, we cannot expect anythingbrighter if we’ve sense and courage enough tolook before us. Ten days more and the shipswill be gone; then what is there to preventthese savages