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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
the colony was intrusted. A fleet of transport ships was prepared at the expense of the proprietary; Queen Elizabeth, the godmother of Virginia, declined contributing to its education. The company, as it embarked, was cheered by the April 26. presence of women; and an ample provision of the implements of husbandry gave a pledge for successful industry. In July, they arrived on the coast of North Carolina; they were saved from the dangers of Cape Chap. III.} 1587. Fear; and, passing Cape Hatteras, they hastened to the Isle of Roanoke, to search for the handful of men whom Grenville had left there as a garrison. They found the tenements deserted and overgrown with weeds; human bones lay scattered on the field; wild deer were reposing in the untenanted houses, and were feeding on the productions which a rank vegetation still forced from the gardens. The fort was in ruins. No vestige of surviving life appeared. The miserable men whom Grenville had left, had been murdered by the