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Roanoke Island (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
gems against their enemies; and that the practice of inviting men to a feast, that they might be murdered in the hour of confidence, was not merely a device of European bigots, but was known to the natives of Secotan. The English, too, were solicited to engage in a similar enterprise, under promise of lucrative booty. The adventurers were satisfied with observing the general aspect of the new world; no extensive examination of the coast was undertaken; Pamlico and Albemarle Sound and Roanoke Island were explored, and some information gathered by inquiries from the Indians; the commanders had not the courage or the activity to survey the country with exactness. Having made but a short stay in America, they arrived in September in the west of England, accompanied by Manteo and Wanchese, two natives of the wilderness; and the returning voyagers gave such glowing descriptions of their discoveries, as might be expected from men who had done no more than sail over the smooth waters of a
Plymouth, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
he Cape of Good Hope. In 1527 an expedition, favored by Henry VIII. and Wolsey, sailed from Plymouth for the discovery of the northwest passage. But the larger ship was lost in July among iceberg projector of the design been overwhelmed by a succession of disasters. Two days after leaving Plymouth, the largest June 13. ship in the fleet, which had been furnished by Raleigh, who himself rema gallant spirits of a gallant age, as- Aprl 9. sumed the command of the fleet. It sailed from Plymouth, accompanied by several men of merit, whom the Chap. III.} 1585. world remembers;—by Cavendis by Grenville on the return voyage, secured him a courteous welcome as he entered the harbor of Plymouth. The transport ships of the colony were at the same time privateers. The Voyage, in Hakluytng to England, gave three of them to Sir Ferdinand Gorges, a friend of Raleigh, and governor of Plymouth. Rosier's Virginian Voyage, &c. in Purchas, IV. 1659—1667. Gorges, Brief Narration, c. II.
Cape Ann (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ed with trinkets and merchandise, suited to a traffic with the natives; and this voyage also was successful. It reached the American coast among the islands which skirt the harbors of Maine. The mouth Chap. III.} of the Penobscot offered good anchorage and fishing Pring made a discovery of the eastern rivers and harbors—the Saco, the Kennebunk, and the York; and the channel of the Piscataqua was examined for three or four leagues. Meeting no sassafras, he steered for the south; doubled Cape Ann; and went on shore in Massachusetts; but, being still unsuccessful, he again pursued a southerly track, and finally anchored in Old Town harbor, on Martha's Vineyard. The whole absence lasted about six months, and was completed without disaster or danger. Purchas, IV. 1654—1656. Compare Belknap, II. 123—133; Williamson's Maine, i. p. 185—187. Pring, a few years later, 1606. repeated his voyage, and made a more accurate survey of Maine. Enterprises for discovery were now continuous
Cathay (North Dakota, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
es; unrelenting in its pursuit, it is deaf to the voice of mercy, and blind to the cautions of judgment; it can penetrate the prairies of Arkansas, and covet the moss-grown barrens of the Esquimaux. I have now to relate the first attempt of the English, 1578. under the patronage of Elizabeth, to plant an establishment in America. Hakluyt, III. 71—73. It was believed that the rich mines of the polar regions would countervail the charges of a costly adventure; the hope of a passage to Cathay increased, and for the security of the newly-discovered lands, soldiers and discreet men were selected to become their inhabitants. A magnificent fleet of fifteen sail was assembled, in part at the expense of Elizabeth; the sons of the English gentry embarked as volunteers; one hundred persons were chosen to form the colony, which was to secure to England a country more desirable than Peru, a country too inhospitable to produce a tree or a shrub, yet where gold lay, not charily concealed in
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
oncurrence of Raleigh, had well nigh secured to New England the honor of the first permanent English colony. Steering, in a small bark, directly 602 Mar. across the Atlantic, in seven weeks he reached the continent of America in the Bay of Massachusetts, not Chap. III.} 1602. May 14. far to the north of Nahant. Belknap's Biog II. 103. Williamson's Maine, i. 184, 185. He failed to observe a good harbor, and, standing for the south, discovered the promontory which he called Cape Cod—a namscovery of the eastern rivers and harbors—the Saco, the Kennebunk, and the York; and the channel of the Piscataqua was examined for three or four leagues. Meeting no sassafras, he steered for the south; doubled Cape Ann; and went on shore in Massachusetts; but, being still unsuccessful, he again pursued a southerly track, and finally anchored in Old Town harbor, on Martha's Vineyard. The whole absence lasted about six months, and was completed without disaster or danger. Purchas, IV. 1654—<
Craven County (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
the Christians, falling upon the unhappy king and his principal followers, put them without mercy to death It was evident that Lane did not possess the quali- Chap III.} 1586 ties suited to his station. He had not the sagacity which could rightly interpret the stories or the designs of the natives; and the courage, like the eye, of a soldier, differs from that of a traveller. His discoveries were inconsiderable: to the south they had extended only to Secotan, in the present county of Craven, between the Pamlico and the Neuse; to the north they reached no farther than the small River Elizabeth, which joins the Chesapeake Bay below Norfolk; in the interior, the Chowan had been examined beyond the junction of the Meherrin and the Nottaway; and we have seen, that the hope of gold attracted Lane to make a short excursion up the Roanoke. Yet some general results of importance were obtained. The climate was found to be salubrious; during the year not more than four men had died, and
Belfast Bay (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
s vigorously pursued. An expedition, pro- 1605. moted by the Earl of Southampton and Lord Arundel, of Wardour, and commanded by George Weymouth, who, in attempting a north-west passage, had already explored the coast of Labrador, now discovered the Penobscot River. Weymouth left England in March, and, in about six weeks, came in sight of the American continent near Cape Cod. Turning to the north, he approached the coast of Maine, and ascended the western branch of the Penobscot beyond Belfast Bay; where the deep channel of the broad stream, the abundance of its spacious harbors, the neighboring springs and copious rivulets, compelled the experienced Chap III.} 1605 mariner to admire the noble river, which is just now beginning to have upon its banks and in its ports the flourishing settlements and active commerce that it is by nature so well adapted to sustain. Five natives were decoyed on board the ship, and Weymouth, returning to England, gave three of them to Sir Ferdinand G
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 7
Chapter 3: England takes possession of the United States. the attempts of the French to colonize Florideven years from this time, the first town in the United States' territory was permanently built. So rapid are rica, the western limits of the territory of the United States became known. Embarking on a voyage in quest ofaccompanied the expedition; and some part of the United States would have then been colonized, had not the unhadiscoveries, intending to visit the coast of the United States. But they had not proceeded towards the 1583 so offspring of English parents on the soil of the United States. The infant was named from the place of its biof England, who advanced the colonization of the United States; and his fame belongs to American history. No Eof the chief author of early colonization in the United States was reduced to beggary by the government of Englges which led the way to the colonization of the United States. The daring and skill of these earliest adventu
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ss the quali- Chap III.} 1586 ties suited to his station. He had not the sagacity which could rightly interpret the stories or the designs of the natives; and the courage, like the eye, of a soldier, differs from that of a traveller. His discoveries were inconsiderable: to the south they had extended only to Secotan, in the present county of Craven, between the Pamlico and the Neuse; to the north they reached no farther than the small River Elizabeth, which joins the Chesapeake Bay below Norfolk; in the interior, the Chowan had been examined beyond the junction of the Meherrin and the Nottaway; and we have seen, that the hope of gold attracted Lane to make a short excursion up the Roanoke. Yet some general results of importance were obtained. The climate was found to be salubrious; during the year not more than four men had died, and of these, three brought the seeds of their disease from Europe. Hariot, in Hakluyt, III. 340. True Declaration of Virginia, 32. The hope of find
Acapulco (Guerrero, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 7
Course of Sir Francis Drake, Hak. III. 524; Johnson's Life of Drake. Here the cold seemed 1579. June. intolerable to men who had just left the tropics. Despairing of success, he retired to a harbor in a milder latitude, within the limits of Mexico; and, having refitted his ship, and named the country New Albion, he sailed for England, through the seas of Asia. Thus was the southern part of the Oregon territory first visited by Englishmen, yet not till after a voyage of the Spanish from Acapulco, commanded by 1542. Cabrillo, a Portuguese, had traced the American continent to within two and a half degrees of the mouth of Columbia River; Forster's Northern Voyages, III. c. IV. s. II. Humboldt, Nouv Esp. II. 436, 437. Compare Viage de las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana, 34. 36. 57. while, thirteen years after the 1593 voyage of Drake, John de Fuca, a mariner from the Chap. III.} 1593 Isles of Greece, then in the employ of the viceroy of Mexico, sailed into the bay which is now kn
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