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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
l 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 Cavendish, who soon after cir-1585. cumnavigated the globe; Hariot, the inventor of the system of no1585. cumnavigated the globe; Hariot, the inventor of the system of notation in modern algebra, Tytler, 66. Stith, 20. Play-fair's Dissertation, p. i. s. i. the historian of the expedition; and White, an ingenious painter, whose sketches In De Bry, part II. They are also imitated in Beverley's Virginia. of the its restoration was delayed; with hasty cruelty, Grenville ordered the village to be burnt and the standing Chap. III.} 1585 Aug 25. corn to be destroyed. Not long after this action of inconsiderate revenge, the ships, having landed the colony, ss are described as too feeble to inspire terror, Chap. III.} 1585 clothed in mantles and aprons of deer-skins; having no 1585 weapons but wooden swords and bows of witch-hazel with arrows of reeds; no armor but targets of bark and sticks wickered t