THE END
FOOTNOTES
[1] Incredible as it may seem, this despicable deed of cruelty has been authentically recorded by writers of the time.
[2] As there is absolutely no reliable record of Marlowe’s personal life and dwelling-place at this time, I have felt justified in attributing his generally acknowledged absence from London to a Virginia voyage.
[3] See Hakluyt’s Voyages.
[4] It was a common belief of the time that a river ran all the way from Virginia to Florida.
[5] Backgammon.
[6] This prelude was written in scorn of his predecessors, and to herald his own conception of a loftier English drama.
[7] From the personal account of Governor White, in Hakluyt’s Voyages.