QUESTIONS.
1. How did the people of England receive the news of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's death? How did it affect Raleigh?
2. What did the expeditions cost him? Whom did he next send out to the new world?
3. When did this fleet leave England? Describe their course and trace it on the map. When did they reach the coast of North Carolina? Where did they land? Can you point out this place on the map? Wocoken? Croatan? Pamlico Sound?
4. What did they name this place? What is said of the new land?
5. What occurred on the second day after their arrival?
6. How did this visit impress the Indians? How were the Indians affected by the roar of the artillery?
7. What return did the Indian make for the kindness of the white men?
8. Who next visited the ships? What kind of man was he? How did this Indian's wife treat the white men? Locate Roanoke Island on the map.
9. What formal ceremony did Amadas and Barlowe conduct?
10. What did the ships carry back to Europe?
11. What two Indians were taken on a visit to England? How was each of them affected by the visit?
12. What account did the mariners give of the new country? What did Queen Elizabeth think of the description? What name did she give to the new country, and why?
13. Of what body did Raleigh soon become a member? What title was then conferred upon him, and why?