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“the new fort in Virginia”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 210.
“one of the wives of Wingina”: White, “One of the Wyues of Wyngyno,” British Museum, 1906,0509.1.17.
His watercolor of a werowance: White, “An Indian ‘Werowance’, or Chief,” British Museum, 1906,0509.1.12.
“to possess Philip’s purse”: Cell, English Enterprise in Newfoundland, 46.
“predatory drive of armed traders”: Andrews, Trade, Plunder, and Settlement, 356.
“the King’s Isle”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 215.
“the goodliest and most pleasing territory”: Ibid., 208.
“If Virginia had but horses”: Ibid.
“being savages that possess the land”: Ibid., 209.
“The savage people rule”: Peterson, American Trinity, 53.
“for they count this”: More, Bacon, and Neville, Three Early Modern Utopias, 63.
“If the title of occupiers”: Raleigh, Works of Sir Walter Raleigh, 2:23.
“a modern fable”: Seed, American Pentimento, 30.
“Possession is nine-tenths”: Ibid., 15.
“For a copper kettle”: Smith, Journals, 175.
“The people naturally”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 209.
“in the presence of the Indian”: Kupperman, Roanoke, 65.
“seeking revenge on every injury”: Lenman, England’s Colonial Wars, 220.
“a botanical philosopher’s stone”: Ralph Bauer, “A New World of Secrets: Occult Philosophy and Local Knowledge in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic,” in Delbourgo and Dew, Science and Empire in the Atlantic World, 110.
“the true and only God”: Harriot, Briefe and True Report, 27.
“may be in a short time”: Ibid., 25.
“spring-clocks that seem to go of themselves”: Ibid., 27.
“conjurers” who could predict: Ibid., 54.
“because we sought”: Ibid., 28.
“Within a few days”: Ibid.
“by shooting invisible bullets”: Ibid., 29.
“St. Mary’s Bay”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 215.
the “wild men”: Ibid., 204.
“for a savage, a very grave”: Ibid., 259.
“whilst there was left”: Ibid., 267.
“We heard certain savages call”: Ibid., 271.
“which was fasted”: Ibid., 272.
“We be dead men returned”: Ibid., 278.
“the only friend to our nation”: Ibid., 275.
“seem to prophesy”: Harriot, Briefe and True Report, 29.
“one who watches”: Oberg, Dominion and Civility, 39.
“Because there were not to be found”: Harriot, Briefe and True Report, 6.
“to live upon shellfish”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 283.
“Christ our Victory”: Ibid., 287.
“thwart his buttocks”: Ibid.
“with all love and kindness”: Ibid., 108.
“not only victuals, munitions”: Ibid., 289.
for the “unrighteous intercourse”: Irene A. Wright, Further English Voyages to Spanish America, 197.
“we had many Turks”: Corbett, Papers Relating to the Navy During the Spanish War, 21.
“Most of the slaves”: Irene A. Wright, Further English Voyages to Spanish America, 159.
“as did the black slaves”: Ibid., 54.
“meant to leave all the negroes”: Ibid., 204.
“who do menial service”: Oberg, Head in Edward Nugent’s Hand, 99.
“a great storm”: David B. Quinn, Set Fair for Roanoke, 137.
“Considering the case”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 292.
“left all things so confusedly”: Hakluyt, Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, 12:347.
“showed themselves too fierce”: Harriot, Briefe and True Report, 30.
“their long and dangerous abode”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 293.
“an astonishing feat”: Kupperman, Roanoke, 81.
“100 Turks brought by Sir Francis Drake”: David B. Quinn, “Turks, Moors, Blacks, and Others in Drake’s West Indian Voyage,” 101.
“he would be glad to hear”: Ibid., 104.
“the saddest part of the story”: Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom, 34.
“The only reasonable explanation”: David B. Quinn, England and the Discovery of America, 432.
CHAPTER 4: SMALL THINGS FLOURISH BY CONCORD
“one whole year and more”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 233.
“slanderous and shameful speeches”: Harriot, Briefe and True Report, 5.
“The discovery of a good mine”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 273.
“for pleasantness of seat”: Ibid., 257.
“This brilliant, ruthless, and sardonic creature”: Wallace, Sir Walter Raleigh, 4.
“you freely swore that no terrors”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 514.
“If you proceed”: Ibid., 493.
“I am fully persuaded”: Ibid.
sister of “Fornando Simon”: William S. Powell, “Who Were the Roanoke Colonists?,” 51.
“This city of London”: Harkness, Jewel House, 1.
“great multitude of people”: Charles Knight, London 1–2, 254.
“Military outposts always failed”: H.G. Jones, Raleigh and Quinn, 125.
“The whole 1587 project”: David B. Quinn, Set Fair for Roanoke, 231.
“It is to be feared”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 768.
“the state of the country and savages”: Ibid., 523.
“where Master Ralph Lane”: Ibid., 524.
“and the disposition of the people”: Ibid., 526.
“token or badge”: Ibid., 527.
while a “fire arrow”: Ibid., 529.
“it being so dark”: Ibid., 530.
“Because this child”: Ibid., 532.
“some controversies rose”: Ibid., 533.
“I myself was wounded”: Ibid., 567.
“the reason why the English”: Ibid., 791.
“other debris indicating”: Ibid., 811.
“Pressed as I am”: Padfield, Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind, 32.
“much rain, thundering and great spouts”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 608.
found the “secret token”: Ibid., 613.
spotted another “great smoke”: Ibid., 610.
“the light of a great fire”: Ibid., 613.
houses were “taken down”: Ibid., 614.
“and about the place”: Ibid., 615.
“the savages our enemies”: Ibid., 616.
“The whole existence of the colony”: Margaret F. and Dwayne W. Pickett, The European Struggle to Settle North America, 27.
“where our planters were”: Ibid., 617.
“Thus you may plainly perceive”: Ibid., 715.
CHAPTER 5: A WHOLE COUNTRY OF ENGLISH
“They were the best portrayals”: Kupperman, Roanoke, 129.
concepts about the “noble savage”: West, Changing Presentation of the American Indian, 16.
“I greatly joyed”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 616.
“untimely death by murdering”: Knapp, Empire Nowhere, 170.
“bound only for the relief”: Ibid., 94.
“extremity of weather”: Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh, 348.
“It is the sinfulest thing”: Bacon, Essays, 110.
“rare virtues in medicine”: Harriot, Briefe and True Report, 9.
“All ships and goods are confiscate”: David B
. Quinn, Raleigh and the British Empire, 215.
“I shall yet live to see”: Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh, 348.
“forced and feared them”: Quinn and Quinn, English New England Voyages, 166.
“gold is more plentiful”: Jonson, Chapman, Marston, Eastward Hoe! (A&C Black), 61.
“Why, is she inhabited already”: Ibid., 60.
“A whole country of English”: Ibid.
“They shall have all the lands”: “First Charter of Virginia, April 10, 1606.”
“a savage boy”: Percy, “Jamestown,” 4.
Among today’s Hopi: Hedrick, “Hopi Indians, ‘Cultural’ Selection, and Albinism.”
“a man of large stature”: Beverley and Campbell, History of Virginia, 48.
“certain men clothed at a place”: Smith, “True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia,” 9.
“short coats, and sleeves to the elbows”: Ibid.
“where they have abundance of brass”: Ibid.
“We had agreed with the king”: Ibid.
“southward we went to some parts”: Smith, Travels and Works, 55.
“Here Pasaphege and 2 of our own men”: General Archive of Simancas, Dept. of State, no. 2588, fol. 22.
“Here the King of Pasapahegh”: Ibid.
“the south sea, a mine of gold”: Smith, Journals, 102.
“I am very hungry”: John Smith, The General Historie of Virginia, 302.
“by throwing them overboard”: Mark Nicholls, “George Percy,” EncyclopediaVirginia.org.
“made a hole to bury him”: Smith, Works, 1608–1631, 638.
“You shall find a brave and fruitful seat”: U.S. Library of Congress, Records of the Virginia Company of London, 17.
“true and sincere declaration”: Congressional Serial Set, 63.
“men, women, and children”: Strachey, Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, 85.
“these unfortunate and betrayed people”: Strachey, Historie of Travaile.
“have great care not to offend”: “Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606.”
for “devilish treachery”: Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, 22.
“this our earth is truly English”: Ibid., 228.
“to search of the lost company”: Ashton, Adventures and Discourses of Captain John Smith, 178.
“little hope and less certainty”: Ibid., 223.
“a man full of all vanity”: Christopher M. Armitage, Literary and Visual Ralegh, 11.
“the greatest Lucifer”: Burns, The Smoke of the Gods, 50.
“Our situation is such”: Shirley, Thomas Harriot: Renaissance Scientist, 4.
“I was never ambitious”: Ibid., 29.
“the sovereign remedy”: Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 399.
“emperor of Roanoke”: Trebellas, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, 61.
“These tell us, that several of their ancestors”: Lawson, New Voyage to Carolina, 66.
“The smallpox and rum”: Ibid., 234.
“perished miserably by famine”: Robertson, History of America: Books IX and X, no. 59, 31.
“no trace was ever found”: Hinton, History and Topography of the United States, 1:22.
“the germ of our institutions”: Bancroft, A History of the United States, vii.
“disasters thickened” and “a tribe of savages”: Ibid., 119.
“The further history of this neglected plantation”: Ibid., 121.
“Imagination received no help”: Ibid., 123.
“the first offspring”: Bancroft, A History of the United States, 106.
“that paradise of the new world”: Weekly Raleigh Register, Nov. 9, 1835.
“The fate of this last colony”: Cass, Speeches, Etc., 40.
“I have thought of myself”: Clough and Hair, European Outthrust and Encounter, 3.
“The attempts to knit together”: David B. Quinn, Set Fair for Roanoke, 231.
“restrict himself to what is exactly”: Ibid., xv.
“clouded by sentiment”: Ibid., 345.
“enclosures for breeding rabbits”: Ibid., 351.
“limitations, ambiguities, and omissions”: Ibid., xvii.
“The story of the colonies”: Ibid., 399.
CHAPTER 6: CHILD OF SCIENCE AND SLOW TIME
“Medicine jar pottery”: Richard Gray, “Did Disease Drive Off Colonists on Roanoke Island?,” Daily Mail Online, June 22, 2016, www.dailymail.co.uk.
“As soon as they had disembarked”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 835.
“some old English coins”: Lawson, New Voyage to Carolina, 65.
“to view the remains”: William S. Powell, Paradise Preserved, 23.
“are but scanty”: Seaworthy, Nag’s Head, 126.
“dense copses of live-oak”: Edward Bruce, “Loungings in the Footprints of the Pioneers,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, May 1860, 733.
“Earth-work Built by Sir Walter Raleigh’s”: Johnson, Long Roll, 156.
“but with little success”: “Roanoke Island,” Continental Monthly, May 1862, 551.
“My early memories”: Elizabeth Dunbar, Talcott Williams, 82.
“By little short of a miracle”: Williams, “Surroundings and Site of Raleigh’s Colony,” 61.
“Today half of the old entrenchment”: William S. Powell, Paradise Preserved, 37.
“These little objects have a unique”: J. C. Harrington, “Evidence of Manual Reckoning in the Cittie of Ralegh,” North Carolina Historical Review 33, no. 1 (1956): 10.
“No physical remains of the settlers’ homes”: Ibid.
“Every archaeologist dreams”: Stick, Outer Banks Reader, 255.
“that the poison which the crucible”: Georg Agricola, De Re Metallica, 474.
“sucking it through clay pipes”: Harriot, Briefe and True Report, 3.
“That is to say, I hold an object”: McMullen, One White Crow, 23.
“unknown whether fallen bodies”: Sumner, “Remote Sensing of the McMullen Site,” 20.
“Since no mention is made”: Prentice, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Archaeological Overview and Assessment, 176.
“structures or some features”: Ibid., 182.
“This harbor is the natural site”: Williams, “Surroundings and Site of Raleigh’s Colony,” 54.
“of little strength”: David B. Quinn, Roanoke Voyages, 790.
“no discernible pattern”: Prentice, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site Archaeological Overview and Assessment, 191.
CHAPTER 7: A FOUR-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD COVER-UP
“It appears to have a central cross”: Ambers et al., “Examination of Patches on a Map of the East Coast of North America by John White,” British Museum Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, CSR Analytical Request No. AR2012021, 6, www.britishmuseum.org.
“are difficult to interpret”: Ibid., 8.
“the lines give the impression”: Ibid.
“One other possible”: Ibid.
“If your honor rub this powder”: Cooper, Queen’s Agent, 137.
“The paper must be dipped”: Ibid.
“The search for the colonists”: “Ancient Map Gives Clue to Fate of ‘Lost Colony,’ ” Telegraph, May 4, 2012, www.telegraph.co.uk.
“Evidence of an early colonial presence”: Klingelhofer, “Progress Report on 2012–13 Multidisciplinary Research at Salmon Creek,” 12.
“The possibility exists that it is Elizabethan”: Ibid.
“It cannot be a coincidence”: Evans, Klingelhofer, and Luccketti, Archaeological Brief for Site X, 8.
CHAPTER 8: POT OF BRASS
“Everyb
ody who lives here has a theory”: Gray, “Unearthing Clues to Lost Worlds.”
“Dr. Phelps just went”: Catherine Kozak, “Signet Ring Crowned N.C. Archaeologist’s Career,” Virginian-Pilot, March 8, 2009, pilotonline.com.
“a broad smile”: Catherine Kozak, “Buxton Crew Digs Up Possible Lost Colony Link: Gold Signet Ring Could Support Theory of a Trek to Hatteras,” Virginian-Pilot, Oct. 14, 1998, pilotonline.com.
The Cape Creek ring: Charles Heath, “Postcontact Period European Trade Goods and Native Modified Objects from the Cape Creek Site (31Dr1),” app. 4. Unpublished manuscript.
“is the first direct tie-in”: Pittman, “Myth in the Memory,” 158.
“Signet Ring Crowned”: Kozak, “Signet Ring Crowned N.C. Archaeologist’s Career.”
“a clattering bag of madness”: Leigh Holmwood, “First Night: BBC1’s Bonekickers,” Guardian, July 9, 2008, www.theguardian.com.
“I googled Manteo”: DailyMail.com, “Town’s Shock as Residents from Mystery US ‘Twin’ Turn Up Bearing Gifts.”
“The fashionable Elizabethan woman”: Picard, Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London, 133.
CHAPTER 9: REJOICING IN THINGS STARK NAUGHTY
“bald of the head”: Patronato 265, R.60, General Archive of the Indies, Seville.
“not to give or sell or lend”: Delbourgo and Dew, Science and Empire in the Atlantic World, 34.
“suspicion of piracy”: David B. Quinn, England and the Discovery of America, 249.
“enough to hang him”: Ibid.
“I do bewail and lament”: Ewen, Golden Chalice, 10.
“to clear the coasts”: Claire Jowitt, Pirates?, 34.
as “Walsingham’s man”: David B. Quinn, England and the Discovery of America, 249.
“and ransomed and tortured the men”: Ewen, Golden Chalice, 16.
“He is gone back again to sea”: Ibid., 17.
“a thorough-paced scoundrel”: David B. Quinn, England and the Discovery of America, 250.
“the black stone”: Granger, A Biographical History of England, 324.
“Fernando Simon”: Cotton Collection, Cotton Roll XIII.48, British Library.