John White was their governor, and very shortly after they came
to Roanoke, his daughter, Mistress Ananias Dare, had a little baby
girl, the first white child to be born in the new world, so they
named her Virginia.
Now these people, like ourselves, were soon sorely in need of food,
and they coaxed Governor John White to go back to England, to get
what would be needed until they could gather a harvest.
At the time he arrived at London, England was at war with the
Spanish people, and it was two years before he found a chance to
get back. When he finally arrived at Roanoke Island, there were
no signs of any of his people to be found, except that on the tree
was cut the word "Croatan," which is the name of an Indian village
on the island nearby.
That was the last ever heard of all those hundred and sixteen
people. Five different times Sir Walter Raleigh sent out men for the
missing ones; but no traces could be found, not even at Croatan, and
no one knows whether they were killed by the Indians, or wandered
off into the wilderness where they were lost forever.
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