7. How did Governor Lane occupy himself? What wonderful story was told Lane by the Indians?
8. How did Lane regard this story? Give an account of his expedition up the Roanoke River. Point out Williamston.
9. What did Governor Lane find to be the condition of affairs upon his return to the settlement?
10. What plot was discovered? How did Governor Lane prevent it?
11. What was the effect of this treatment? What help arrived from England?
12. What did the colonists resolve to do? What is said of this attempt to found a colony?
CHAPTER VIII.
GOVERNOR WHITE'S COLONY.
A. D. 1586 TO 1590.
It must have been a sore trial to Sir Walter Raleigh when he learned that his colonists had returned to England. He had sent over a ship with abundant supplies, which reached Roanoke only a few days after Sir Francis Drake sailed away with his fleet. Finding no white people upon the island, the ships returned to England. Sir Richard Grenville also touched at the same point, with three other ships, about fifteen days later. The folly, avarice and timidity of agents such as Ralph Lane have, in all ages, crippled the noblest efforts for human advancement.