A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . urpose was fitted out. On the 9th of April, 1585, a fleet of seven colony un- sliips, undcr commaud of Sir Richard Grenville, sailed from der Sir Rich- ^ ard Gren- Plvmoutli. On board were about one hundred men who ville. 1585. -^ i ^ • were to form the future colony. Of this Ralph Lane wasto be the governor ; Philip Amadas, who in this as in th
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A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . urpose was fitted out. On the 9th of April, 1585, a fleet of seven colony un- sliips, undcr commaud of Sir Richard Grenville, sailed from der Sir Rich- ^ ard Gren- Plvmoutli. On board were about one hundred men who ville. 1585. -^ i ^ • were to form the future colony. Of this Ralph Lane wasto be the governor ; Philip Amadas, who in this as in the expeditionof the previous year, commanded a ship, was his deputy; of anothership Sir Thomas Cavendish, a young gentleman just come of age andinto his inheritance by the death of his father, was owner and cap-tain ; Thomas Hariot, the mathematician and astronomer, went asthe scientific man of the expedition. One John White was the artist, and his sketches are among the earliest, the most authentic, andthe most valuable of the habits and appearance — though no doubtsomewhat idealized — of the natives of Virginia as Ihe Englishmenfound them. Altogether it was a notable company. Lane was already a sol-dier of reputation and was after- CCvwe_. wards knighted by the queen.Cavendish, just out of boyhood, made, a year later, the most fa-mous voyage of the time aroundSignature of Ralph Lane. ^^q world, in which he gavc some valuable contributions to geographical knowledge; and he speciallycommended himself to the affectionate respect of his country- Notable i • p i /• i i • men in the nicn and tlic approbation of the queen, tor he wrote on his colonv return, I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small andgreat; and all the villages and towns that ever I landed at I burnedand spoiled, — ships, towns, and villages being all Spanish. Hariotwas Raleighs friend to the end of his career; aided him in that His-tory of the World which he wrote in the Tower; and because of this