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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nville, a friend of Raleigh, at\d a man•f tried skill and braver\. was given the c>m- rs r\»iNv; ^;ki-i:nwicu. Iving between Albemarle and Pamlico Sonnds.Expeditions were sent out to explore thesurrounding country, and in one of these asilver cup was stolen b\ an Indian, and itsrestonition was delayed. With thoughtlesscruelty Grenville punished this fauc by thedestruction o\ the village to which the culpritbelonged, and also of all the standing corn.This inconsiderate revenge made the Indiansthe enemies of the whites, and brought great - fnc 1 IRST K,\(;)J MI (.()IJ)SV. 67 future .sijn^:ri;if^ upon llic r.olony. A Ji*Iclater, Iiavin;; ■.,<(u llj*; (.olonlsts Siicccs.sfuJ/ycstalilisJirrl (,:i \<<,:iu))<i: l,):n\;it.cm of nf>h
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QVSIES Ki.y/.M.l.TU. inf» a rich Spanish prizo on the voyagehome. Left to thems^;camea exp.lore the country, and to observe the f firm believer in the ho-aling virtue* o<productions of the soil, and the character ojT^! tobarco. He hxis leff an interesting account 68 DISCOVERY OF THE WESTERN CONTINENT. of the natives of the country and their man-ners and customs. The Indians, alarmed by the superiority ofthe whites, began to plot their destruction,as they believed their entire country wouldbe overrun by the new comers. Lane onhis part became suspicious of the savages,and this feeling of mutual distrust had themost unhappy consequences. Being informedby the savages that there was a splendid city,whose walls glittered with gold and pearls,on the upper waters of the Roanoke, Gov-ernor Lane made a boat voyage up thatstream, but f

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