THE ENGLISH TRADING WITH THE INDIANS
Elizabeth was much pleased with what she heard. She said:
"This beautiful country shall be called Virginia in honor of myself."
The queen was not married. She sometimes said: "I am wedded to my country, and that is enough." It was because of this that she was often spoken of as the "Virgin Queen." She always liked to be called by this name.
At this time she made Walter Raleigh a knight and that is why he has always since been called Sir Walter Raleigh.
The next year he sent out one hundred people to settle in Virginia. They must have been very brave to seek a new home among the Red Men across the great ocean. They landed on one of the islands which their people had visited the year before. They set to work at once to make a home for themselves.
It was not long before some rough houses were built and English housekeeping was begun in America.
The Indians were not as kind as they were the year before. They were jealous of the white men. They thought: