As to the story at one time prevalent of Ralegh’s coming in person to his colony, Stith, History of Virginia, p. 22, thinks it arose from a mistranslation of the Latin. Cf. Force’s Tracts i. p. 37, Georgia Tract, 1742,—“Mr. Oglethorpe has with him Sir Walter Ralegh’s written journal,” etc.—Ed.
[222] [The sources for this first colony may be concisely enumerated as follows:—
1. Diary of the Voyage, April 9-Aug. 25, 1585, originally in Hakluyt, 1589; also in Hawks.
2. Ralph Lane’s letters, Aug. and Sept. 1585. Some in Hakluyt, vol. iii.; also in Hawks and others referred to in the text, edited by E. E. Hale, in the Archæologia Americana, vol. iv. (1860).
3. Hariot’s narrative originally published in 1588; then by Hakluyt in 1589; and by De Bry in 1590. See later note.
4. Lane’s narrative given in Hakluyt and Hawks.
5. A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage, London, 1589; also in Hakluyt, 1600. The copy of the former in the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Library was the one used by Prince; see ch. ii.; also Barrow’s Life of Drake, ch. vi. Mr. Edward C. Bruce, in his “Loungings in the Footprints of the Pioneers,” in Harper’s Monthly, May, 1860, describes the condition of the site of the colony at that time. Roanoke Island was sold to Joshua Lamb, of New England, in 1676; Hist. Mag. vi. 123. Cf. Continental Monthly, i. 541, by Frederic Kidder.—Ed.]
[223] [A notice of the original English issue of Hariot (1588) is described on a later page as the second original production relating to America presented to the English public (see notes following Dr. De Costa’s chapter); but it became more widely known in 1590, when De Bry at Frankfort made it the only part of his famous Collection of Voyages, which he printed in the English tongue, giving it the following title: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, of the commodities, and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants. Discovered by the English colony there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile in the yeere 1585.... This forebooke is made in English by Thomas Hariot. Francoforti ad Moenvm, typis Joannis Wecheli, svmtibus vero Theodori de Bry, cicicxc. It is also the rarest of the parts, and only a few copies of it are known, as follows:—
1. Carter-Brown Library. Catalogue, i. 397, where a fac-simile of the title is given.
2. Lenox Library.