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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 9 (search)
in no other place. Unto this were all the sailors, both in the pinnace and ship, persuaded by the master; wherefore it booted not Did not benefit. the governor to contend with them, but [we] passed to Roanoke; and the same night at sunset went a-land Ashore. on the island, in the place where our fifteen men were left: but we found none of them, nor any sign that they had been there, saving only we found the bones of one of those fifteen which the savages had slain long before. The three and twentieth of July, the governor, with divers of his company, walked to the north end of the island, where Master Ralph Lane had his fort, with sundry necessary and decent dwelling-houses, made by his men about it the year before, where we hoped to find some signs or certain knowledge of our fifteen men. When we came thither, we found the fort razed down, but all the houses standing unhurt, saving that the nether rooms of them, and also of the fort, were overgrown with melons of divers s