f some favorable landing, where water
could be found. The council held out the hope of capturing Spanish
vessels in the vicinity of the West Indies; and it was agreed that, if
successful, they should return, richly laden with spoils, to seek their
exiled countrymen. One of these vessels returned to England, while the
Admiral laid his course for Trinidad; and this was the last attempt made
to find the colonists.

More than a century after Admiral White had abandoned his colony,
Lawson, in writing about the Hatteras Indians, says: "They said that
several of their ancestors were white people, and could talk in a book
as we do; the truth of which is confirmed by grey eyes being frequently
found among them, and no others. They value themselves extremely for
their affinity to the English, and are ready to do them all friendly
offices. It is probable that the settlement miscarried for want of
supplies from England, or through the treachery of the natives; for we
may reasonably suppose that the English were forced to cohabit with them
for relief and conversation, and that in process of time they conformed
themselves to the manners of their Indian relations."

Dr. Hawks thinks, "that, driven by starvation, such as survived the
famine were merged into the tribes of friendly Indians at Croatan, and,
alas! lost ere long every vestige of Christianity and civilization; and
those who came to shed light on the darkness of paganism, in the
mysterious providence of God ended by relapsing themselves into
the heathenism they came to remove. It is a sad picture of poor
human nature."

It needed not the fierce gusts of wind that howled about the tall tower,
causing it to vibrate until water would be spilled out of a pail resting
upon the floor of the lantern, blowing one day from one quarter of the
compass, and changing the next to another, to warn me that I was near
the Cape of Storms.

Refusing to continue longer with my new friends, the canoe was put into
the water on the 16th, and Captain Hatzel's two sons proceeded in
advance with a strong boat to break a channel-way through the thin ice
which had formed in the quiet coves. We were soon out in the sound,
where the boys left me, and I rowed out of the southern end of Roanoke
and entered upon the wide area of Pamplico Sound. To avoid shoals, it
being calm, I kept about three miles from the beach in three feet of
water, until beyond Duck Island, when the trees on Roanoke Island slowly