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1586. left to make a Settlement, he set Sail byhimself, and entirely at his own Charge,about Easter.

He fell in with the Land at CapeBut finding Hattorask, a little to the Southward ofdeparted* t ^ ie Place,where theColony of one Hun-retumed dred and eight Aden had been settled,but a few Days after their Departure,with Sir Francis Drake ; And, after someTime spent in seeking them, up in theCountry, and not finding them, return-ed to England, with all the Provisionshe had carried with him.

Sir Richard Greenvil, who command-GreenvilI t- ec ^ l 'be other three Ships, arrived thererives there about fourteen Days after Raleigh waswith three departed. He found the Place whereSlaps ■, he had left his Colony, the former Voy-age? But, as it was entirely deserted,and he knew nothing, that Sir FrancisDrake had been there, and had takenthem away, he was discouraged andimagined they were all destroyed: bythe "Natives. He soon aster met withManteo, one of the two who had beenin England, and he satisfied him, thatthey were not cut off by the Indians,tbo 7 he could give no good Accountwhat was become of them. However,I,eaves some notwithstanding this seeming Discourage-Men there, men( ^ p e a g a j n } e f c fifty “Men, in the

Returns - s ame Isiand of Roannock, built themHouses necessary, gave them two YearsProvisions, and then returned.

Hackluyt fays, he left but fifteenAnd ia Us Men there, which seems improbable,Way plun- tho', in oneRespect,it agrees better withzotqs . 16 " -Account the Reader will find be-low of what afterwards became of them.This Author adds, that Sir Richard, inhis Return, fell in with the Mzores I-stands, on some of which he landed,plundered the Towns, and brought offwhatever he found worth his Carriage.

The fourth Voyage.

The next Summer, being 1587. Ra-A fecon J e igk sent another Colony of one Hun-

aGovernour , dred and fifty Persons, Men and Wo-&c. sent men, with a Governour, and twelve

over. Assistants. To these he gave a Charter,

and incorporated them by the Name ofGovernour and Assistants of the City ofRaleigh, in Virginia. Their Directionswere to plant at Chesepiak.

They were sent over in three Ships,which were likewise, under the chiefCommand of the Governour, Mr .JohnWhite, and they had Plenty 'of Provisi-ons and all Necessaries. "

They sailed from Plymouth, on the 1586*eighth of May, and having spent seve-ral Days among the Spanish MmericanIstands, arrived, at last, on the twenty*second of July, at Hattorask, in Vir-ginia, and from thence crofs’d over tothe Istand of Roannock. Enquiring hereafter the Erglijh, who were left by SirRichard Greenvil, they were informed,by Manteo, that they were set upon, ^eyat unawares, by the Indians , some of^Roan-them killed, and the others sied, for nock;Refuge, into other Parts of the Coun-try. They found, in the Place of theirHabitation, nothing but the Bones of aMan, the Fort ruined, a nd the Houses,tho' not much hurt, all overgrown withWeeds. These they removed, and,repairing the Houses, began their Set-tlement there again, by the Persuasionof one of their Company, tho’ contra-ry to their Instructions.

While they' were doing this, Mr.

George How, one of the Assistants, p al n.straggling alone, was stain by the Sa-vages, who gave him sixteen Woundswith their Arrows, and then fell uponhim with their Swords. The thirteenthof July, another of their Company,

Captain Stafford, and twenty Men,went, with Manteo, to the Istand ofCroatdn, where his Friends dwelt,thinking to get some Intelligence of thefifty Men ; But all they could learn 0 pthe $was, that three Hundred (Hackluyt fays Colourthirty) Indians, of Secotan, Hguafcogoc,and Dajsamonpeack set suddenly uponthem ; That they first intruded them-selves among eleven of the English, byFriendship, one of whom they treach-erously killed, and the rest retiring tothe House where their Provisions andArms were, they set it on Fire ; So thatthey were forced to take what Weaponscame next to Hand, and force a Passagethro' their false Friends. In this Con-flict, one of the English was shot in theMouth, of which Wound he died; Butfirst killed his Man. Several more werewounded on both Sides; But the En-glish, retiring to the Sea, got their Boat;

And before they had rowed a Quarterof a Mile towards Hattorask, they tookup four of their (Hackluyt fays., theirfour) Companions who were. gatheringCrabs and Oysters. They landed, atlast, at a little Istand, near Ilattorask*where they remained a while ; But theyafterwards departed from thence, they

knew not whither.

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