[Illustration: “HE TURNED JUST IN TIME TO ESCAPE AN ARROW.”
_Page 184._]
VIRGINIA DARE
A Romance of the Sixteenth Century
BY
E. A. B. S.,
AUTHOR OF “CECIL’S STORY OF THE DOVE,” “STORIES OF
EASTER-TIDE,” ETC.
NEW YORK:
THOMAS WHITTAKER
2 AND 3 BIBLE HOUSE
1892
COPYRIGHT, 1892,
BY THOMAS WHITTAKER.
GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO OUR RECTOR
AND FRIEND,
Reverend Joseph Carey, D.D.,
OF
SARATOGA SPRINGS.
PREFACE.
The author would like to remind the readers of the romance of Virginia
Dare, that if they go back in memory to their schooldays, and the
details of their American history, they will remember that Governor
White sailed for England from Roanoke on the 28th of August, 1587,
leaving behind him his daughter, and her child who had been born ten
days before; that he was unable to return immediately, owing to war
with Spain, and when after the lapse of the three years he did return,
he found the island of Roanoke deserted, and a palisade built, as if
there had been a fight with the Indians. He found no cross, as he
had directed them to put one if they were in trouble, over the name
of the place to which they had removed. But he found on one tree the
first three letters of the word “Croatoan,” and on another the entire
word. They attempted to find Croatoan, but, losing their anchors, were
obliged to drift away and give up the search.
CHAPTER I.
VIRGINIA DARE:
_A ROMANCE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY._