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You're listening to Unexplained, Season

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four, episode thirteen, Lost

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in Stormy Visions, Part three.

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The rigging tapped lazily against the ship's

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masts as the vessel rocked gently

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back and forth while strewn

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all across the top deck. The bodies

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of its crew lay stretched out and

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unmoving under the gray, formless

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clouds above. Down

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below and exhausted. John White,

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the contours of his bones clearly visible

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through his clothes, stirred in

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his bunk, his desiccated

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tongue probing feebly at his

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cracked and bleeding lips as he drifted

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in and out of consciousness. Only

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six weeks before, Governor White

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had clambered aboard Edward Spicer's

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flyboat, hoping for a swift

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journey to England before heading back

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to Roanoke Island, but the

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omens had not been good. Within

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minutes of boarding, the vessel, twelve

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or the fifteen strong crew were badly injured

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due to a malfunctioning anchor mechanism

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that snapped back on them as they tried to bring

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it up. Eventually,

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they were forced to cut the anchor loose entirely,

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with only half the crew able to function

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properly, the ship had just made it past

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the azors when the wind completely

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ceased to blow. For

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days, they drifted until finally

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storm clouds began to amass on the

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horizon. Unfortunately,

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the ensuing gale only succeeded

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in beating them back to where they had just come

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from. It would be almost

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a week before they were able to continue on

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their way, only for the wind to

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once again desert them.

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With the ship becalmed, two men

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dropped dead, as the rest subsisted

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on dregs of beer and wine leaves

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until finally they too were exhausted.

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After weeks adrift on the ocean, with

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the men barely strong enough to lift their

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heads, a gray smudge

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was spied on the horizon, with

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no one daring to believe that it could be land.

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It wasn't until days later, when

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the smudge had shifted into something

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of genuine form, that they realized

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they were saved. Having

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no idea where they were, it was

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with some relief when the sailors caught

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wind of Irish accents coming

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from the shore. After

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drifting for the best part of a month, the

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men finally made landfall on

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October sixteenth, within

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four days of arriving another

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three crew members would die and

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three others be taken perilously ill.

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Three weeks later, Governor

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John White returned to London. At

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Sir Walter Raleigh's home, Raleigh

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listened with barely concealed contempt

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as White did his best to explain

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the colony's predicament. For

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a man so used to getting his own way, it

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was simply impossible to fathom how on earth

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White had allowed Simon Fernandez to

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abandon the colonists on Roanoke

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Island. To make matters

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worse, a supply ship with everything

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the settlers would be needing to survive the winter,

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was already on route to Chesapeake Bay.

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The ship duly arrived at the bay, only

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to find nobody there, and promptly

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returned to England. And

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worse was to come. While

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White had been away, tensions

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between the English and Spanish crowns had

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been steadily increasing. Now

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on the brink of war, Queen Elizabeth

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had issued a ba and on any ships traveling

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without her permission, lest they be needed

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to mount an attack on her enemy. White

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was devastated. It

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had been three months since he'd left America,

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and even if Raleigh could get permission to

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send a second supply ship, it would

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be at least another two months before it could

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get to Roanoke. Being

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equally dismayed at the situation, Raleigh

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nonetheless agreed to seek permission from

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the Queen to send a second supply

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ship to the stranded settlers. A

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week before it was due to set sail. However,

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the weather deteriorated so severely

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that it wasn't until spring the following

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year that its crew were confident enough

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they could make the trip. Then,

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just as White was finally about to set

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sail, the Queen received word

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that an armada of well over a

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hundred ships had set sail

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from Spain, planning to mount

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an invasion of England. White's

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vessels would duly fuscated, and

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the fleet's captain, Richard Grenville,

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ordered to report to Francis Drake, who

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was overseeing the naval defense of the country.

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Pleading with Raleigh once again, White

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eventually succeeded in securing two

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pinnaces to make the journey instead,

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small vessels that were ordinarily used

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to take passengers of a larger vessel to

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the shore. Though

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undoubtedly a risk, White had

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little option but to make do with what he

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had. After procuring

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a crew. Finally, he was

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on his way back to America. Barely

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a week into the journey to White's

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dismay, two galleons were

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spotted on the horizon. As

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they drew closer, the crew discovered

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with alarm that the ships were from

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Spain. In

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the end, it could have been worse. After

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only taking their supplies, the admirals

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of the Spanish vessels allowed John

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White and his crew to return to England.

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On July nineteenth, the King

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of Spain's fleet was spotted off the southwest

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coast of England. In response,

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a series of beacons were lit in quick

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succession, delivering a message

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by fire all the way to London

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that the country was under attack. The

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war had begun, and

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with it any hope that Governor

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White had of returning to Roanoke

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Island had vanished. By

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August, the King of Spain's armada

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was defeated. However, Walter

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Raleigh, who had spent the best part of the summer

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overseeing the English crowns colonization

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of Ireland, would not return to England

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until March fifteen eighty nine.

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It was sometime in March the following year

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that White, who incredibly had refused

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to give up. Hope got wind

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of a local merchants and to send

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three trade ships to the West Indies, the

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only problem being that, with the country

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still at war, the Queen was refusing

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to give them permission to sail. Realizing

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also that this could be their last chance,

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Raleigh convinced the Queen to let them travel

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on the proviso that they take John White

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to Roanoke Island, and

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so it was that on March twentieth, fifteen

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ninety, two years and seven

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months since he had last seen his daughter Eleanor

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and granddaughter Virginia,

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White stepped aboard the Hopewell for

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one final attempt to get back to them.

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The catch being that each captain

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in the fleet had every intention of

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making the most of their journey before

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heading to America, White

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would have little choice but to dig in and

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pray that he would make it out alive.

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Over the next few months, the fleet

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attacked and raided two Spanish flyboats,

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before later being shot at by Spanish

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defenses when drawing too close

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to the island of Saint John. Alighting

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at another island soon after, the crew

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of White's boat burned a Spanish settlement

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to the ground. Two

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men were abducted from the island of Dominica

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to be kept as slaves on the hopewell, but

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later managed to escape shortly before

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the ship was attacked by a Spanish galleon,

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resulting in a four hour gun battle against

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four hundred sailors. And

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that was only the half of it. After

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numerous other skirmishes and raids

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on vessels from France and Spain, including

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chasing three ships heavily laden with treasure

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around almost the entirety of Cuba,

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the admiral of the fleet, Captain Cook,

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finally called it a day in

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August, having now been joined by John

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White's old friend Edward Spicer

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captaining the moonlight, the fleet

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was ready to make its way to Roanoke,

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and soon they were approaching the southern

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edge of the Outer Bank, passing

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first the shores of croato And Island

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to the west, and then eventually,

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as a bright full moon the color

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of bone rose steadily into

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the sky. On August fifteenth,

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the fleet arrived off the coast of Hatterask

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Island, nestled

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just a mile beyond. It was Roanoke

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that evening White watched

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with a combination of joy and utter

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disbelief. As the telltale

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sign of campfire smoke rose

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up from within the island, he

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couldn't believe it. Could

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it be? He thought that the colonists

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had survived all this time, having

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arrived later than hoped. White would

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have to wait till first light before any

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attempt was made to find out. That

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night, as he lay awake in his bunk, trying

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to imagine how his granddaughter might look,

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whether even he might have a second grandchild

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by now, those that had been chosen

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to escort him to the island were restless

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too. There was just

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no way they could still be there, they thought.

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And if it wasn't the colonists who made the

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fire, just what else exactly

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might they find out there. The

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following morning, two boats loaded

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with men headed out toward the Pamlico

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Sound. White traveled

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in Captain Cook's vessel, while Captain

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Spicer took lead of the other. First,

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they would need to carefully navigate their

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way through the outer Bank, a

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slow and treacherous journey owing

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to the unpredictable nature of the various

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sandbars and channels hidden below

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the waves. It was precisely

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for that reason that Raleigh had suggested

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settling on Roanoke in the first place,

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since not only was it hidden from the Atlantic

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side, but no warship could

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possibly get near it. For

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White, it was utter torture watching

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as the pilots cautiously negotiated

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their way, checking and rechecking

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the depths around them every few minutes,

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until finally they were through. At

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that moment, two loud cannon blasts

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could be heard from behind, a

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prearranged signal from the hopewell to

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announce their arrival to the colonists. White

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and the rest fixed their eyes on the

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island for any sign of movement near

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the shore, but nobody came.

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The smoke from the night before had

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also gone. Then

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a cry went up as one sailor spotted

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another trail of smoke, this time

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rising from Kindraiker's Mount, a

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large sand dune located roughly

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halfway down the outer bank between

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Roanoke and crow Atoan. It

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made sense, thought White, since it

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had been discussed that the colony would move

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that way should things become complicated.

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Having yet to see more signs of life on Roanoke,

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White suggested to Cook that they

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turned the boat and head to Kindraker's

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Mount to see what they could find a

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few hours later, having moored up

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just off the beach, the men jumped

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into the water and headed cautiously

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toward where the smoke was coming from,

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picking their way through a thick mesh of

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trees and scrub on constant

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alert, they arrived at the fire,

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or rather what was left of it.

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Somebody had been there, but they had

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long since moved on. With

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the two crews tired and exhausted, it

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was decided to head back to their respective

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ships for the evening before trying

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again for Roanoke Island. It

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was sometime around ten when they reached

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the opening and the outer bank to take

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them back through to the Atlantic. Cook's

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vessel went first, but quickly got

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into difficult when a furious gale

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swept across the water, taking

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the wheel. Cook wrestled tirelessly

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with the boat as a series of ever

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growing waves pummeled it from both

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sides. With the rest

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of the crew furiously baling out

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water, Cook managed finally

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to get through. It

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was only when they were back on board the Hopewell

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that they noticed Spicer's boat being

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tossed violently about on the turbulent

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waters. Cook's men

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could only watch horrified and helpless.

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A Spicer's boat was pitched onto its

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side in one swift movement, then,

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with a second wave colliding into its side,

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it was completely tipped over. Cook's

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crew watched on as some leaped

13:46

from the vessel into the sea, while others

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clung on for dear life until they

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too were finally overwhelmed and

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disappeared into the gray. Some

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tried to swim to the nearest shore, only

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to be beaten mercilessly back into

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the open water. Having

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seen enough, Captain Cook and four

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others jumped back into their boat and

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raced out to save their comrades. Seven

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men in total, including Captain Spicer,

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were drowned. Back

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on board the ships that night, the mood

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was understandably somber, and

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some began to question the purpose of their

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trip, that it had been doomed

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from the start. The

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next morning, White was woken

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by a commotion on deck. See

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for yourself, said Captain Cook, pointing

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toward Roanoke smoke,

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this time coming from the northern edge

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of the island, close to where the

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colonists fought Raleigh had been

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established. That

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evening, Captain Cook brought

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his boat to the shores of roanoke. Stumbling

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from the vessel, Governor White sprinted

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up the beach, urging the rest of the men

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to follow, but the men stayed,

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still concerned that something

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wasn't quite right. Cook

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agreed. Pointing into the trees,

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White looked again at the warm

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orange glow emanating from somewhere

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in the forest beyond that

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was no camp fire. Not

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wanting to lose any more of his crew, Cook

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suggested they make camp for the night and

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continued their journey in the morning. Just

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then, one of the crew stepped forward

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and, putting a trumpet to his lips, blew

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a series of signals into the trees, each

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being answered by nothing save for

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the sound of the waves sloshing against

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the sand. The

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men found the fire still burning the following

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day, its limp flames

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licking at blackened tree trunks,

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while all about the ground the grass

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too was on fire. It

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was as if their journey had merely been taking

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them through one door after another of hell,

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and only now were they getting to

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the heart of it. Returning

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to the beach, the men trekked to the island's

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northern edge until they spotted

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fresh footprints in the sand, heading

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into the trees. Through

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there, said White, pointing to a

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pathway that would lead them straight to

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the fort. But just as

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he was about to step forward, he felt

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a sudden, profound weight fall upon

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him. For

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three years he had pined for this moment,

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hoping every day to be reunited

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with his daughter, But only now

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that he was here did he consider

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the worst. It

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was abundantly clear that either his people

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had left or they were dead. Perhaps

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he didn't want to see what might be waiting for him

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at the settlement. Looking

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up, he was suddenly distracted

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by something on one of the trees. Do

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you see that, he asked Cook. Stepping

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forward, he held out his hands and

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brushed them against the trunk along

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the edges of what were clearly three

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letters carved into its bark, c

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When White finally arrived at the fort, it

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was some relief to find it completely deserted,

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with no sign of the settlers nor

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their remains. The

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place had changed significantly since White

18:53

had last been there, with all the houses

18:56

having been destroyed or removed entirely,

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and all about it a heavily fortified

19:02

palisade section made from large

19:05

tree trunks had been installed, as

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if the settlers had been preparing for a

19:09

raid. Then

19:12

he saw it the word

19:14

crow aten in full, this time

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clearly carved five feet up from

19:19

the floor into the bark of a large

19:22

wooden post. White

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looked frantically for any sign of a cross

19:26

carved above it, a sign that the

19:28

colonists had been forcefully run out,

19:31

but he found none. White

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sunk to his knees with relief, as

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he explained to Captain Cook soon after.

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This was the prearranged signal between him

19:43

and the colonists, a message to

19:45

tell him where they'd gone, should they ever

19:47

have to leave. As

19:49

the men investigated the rest of the ruined

19:52

fort, they found a number of heavy

19:54

materials stacked up in a pile that

19:56

had presumably been thought unnecessary

19:59

to take with them.

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A series of large wooden chests were found

20:03

too, dug out at the ground, with

20:06

their contents long since destroyed

20:08

by the weather, scattered all over the

20:10

floor. White

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bent down to peel a piece of paper from

20:14

the ground. On it

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was the illustration of a secotan that

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he had painted years before. It

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was all his stuff. The

20:24

colonists had buried it in case he

20:26

should ever return. Just

20:29

then, thick dark cloud

20:32

began to swirl above, as

20:34

large drops of water cascaded

20:36

down upon them. It

20:38

was time to head back to the ship. By

20:42

the following morning, a full on storm

20:44

was raging. Kirk ordered

20:46

the crew to set sail for crowatoe In Island,

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but no sooner had they weighed anchor than

20:51

the cable snapped, sending

20:53

the ship on a perilous collision course with

20:55

the shore. Then,

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by sheer luck, the ship was

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suddenly pushed into a deep channel and

21:02

maneuvered away from the outer bank back

21:04

into the Atlantic, leaving Cook

21:07

deeply shaken, running

21:10

dangerously low on food and fresh

21:12

water, and with only one anchor

21:14

left to moor the vessel. Cook

21:16

realized any attempt to reach Crowetoin

21:19

would be a suicide mission. Despite

21:23

White's desperate please, Kok's

21:25

mind was made up. They

21:28

would sail to the Caribbean to refuel,

21:31

then come back for the colonists. Those

21:34

on the Moonlight, devastated by

21:36

the loss of seven of their crew, decided

21:39

instead to head straight back to England.

21:43

Weeks later, the storm winds

21:45

had forced the Hopewell not to

21:47

the Caribbean as planned, but all

21:49

the way to the Azores, and

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when the winds failed to change, Kok,

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putting the safety of his vessel and crew, first

21:58

made the drastic decision they

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would not be going back to America. On

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October twenty fourth, fifteen ninety

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John White was returned to England. He

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would never again travel to the New World,

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and the fate of his colony was destined

22:15

to remain a mystery.

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Little is known of just what became of John

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White, the former governor of

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the second English colony of Roanoke

22:30

Island. Having given up

22:32

on ever finding his daughter and granddaughter

22:35

or any of the other one hundred and sixteen missing

22:38

colonists, including a second

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baby that was borne out there as well, he

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is thought to have retired to Ireland, where

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he eventually died. In

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fifteen ninety four, All colonists

22:51

were officially declared dead by English law,

22:53

based on the fact that the last known contact

22:56

with them had been more than seven years

22:58

previously, though

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he was never registered as such. Manteo

23:03

was also assumed to have died. The

23:06

ruling was of particular shock to Raleigh, as

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this also marked the end of his contract

23:11

with Queen Elizabeth, entitling

23:13

him to any riches found in the New World.

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Without the colony, the contract was

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void. As

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for Simon Fernandez, who so brazenly

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abandoned the colonists on Roanoke Island.

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It has never been ascertained precisely what

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motivated him to do so. Some

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have speculated, however, that he may

23:34

have been deliberately trying to sabotage

23:36

the mission, as John White had

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suspected all along. In

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her book Roanoke Solving the

23:43

Mystery of the Lost Colony, writer

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LEEH. Miller speculated that Queen Elizabeth's

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head spy, Sir Francis Walsingham,

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had enlisted Fernandez to undermine

23:53

Raleigh's attempt to establish the colony

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in America. Walsingham

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had become embittered over Raleigh's rapid

24:00

rise in the court of Queen Elizabeth

24:03

Simon. Fernandez is thought to have died at

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sea sometime in fifteen ninety

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Raleigh tried a number of times to locate

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the Lost Colony in order to validate

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his contract with Elizabeth, sending

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ships in fifteen ninety nine and

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again in sixteen o two, but

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neither made it as far as Roanoke or

24:22

Crowetoan before being forced

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to return to England. The

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sixteen o two expedition did return

24:29

with some intriguing news, however, Rumors

24:32

amongst the local communities of America

24:35

that some of the lost colony were in

24:37

fact alive and well and living

24:40

with one of the East Coast communities, but

24:42

by then Raleigh was facing an

24:45

uncertain future. In

24:47

sixteen o three, Queen Elizabeth

24:49

died, and with the subsequent ascension

24:52

of James the First to the throne, Raleigh

24:55

was stripped of all his rights and claims to the

24:57

New World. Far

24:59

worse, in July of that year,

25:02

he was arrested and accused of plotting

25:04

against the king. Though

25:07

at first spared death due to

25:09

his services to the crown, he

25:11

would spend the next thirteen years locked

25:14

in the Tower of London. After

25:17

being pardoned, Raleigh traveled to

25:19

Venezuela in search of El Dorado,

25:21

the mythical city of Gold, having

25:24

been given permission by the king to do so

25:27

on the one condition that he avoided

25:29

any hostility with ships from Spain.

25:32

When it was discovered that some of his men, against

25:35

Raleigh's orders, had violated this

25:38

condition, he was arrested on

25:40

his return to England and this time

25:42

sentenced to death. He was

25:44

beheaded in October sixteen

25:46

eighteen. In

25:55

the years since the disappearance of the colony

25:57

at Roanoke, rumors continued

25:59

to abound about just what had

26:01

become of them. When

26:03

the first formal English colony in America

26:06

was settled at Jamestown in sixteen o seven,

26:09

some of the settlers learned from people local

26:11

to the area that the Roanoke

26:13

colony had in fact been slaughtered

26:16

by Chief winjun As people in

26:18

revenge for his murder. It

26:21

is often said that what is commonly known

26:23

today as the United States

26:26

has its origins in the hugely controversial

26:28

settlement of Jamestown. Although

26:31

most of the English at the time talked

26:34

with relish about the savages they

26:36

had to endure and fight off while

26:38

trying to establish the town, in

26:40

truth, its success owed much

26:43

to the generosity of the local power town

26:45

people, who, when the colony

26:47

was on the verge of dying out, gifted

26:50

the settlers their food to help them

26:52

survive in

26:54

return. Thanks to the blank canvas

26:57

that America represented to Europeans,

27:00

who saw in it the opportunity to

27:02

create new worlds, foster new

27:04

ideas, and get monetarily

27:06

rich, the world and ways

27:09

of those already native to it

27:11

was broadly dismissed until it

27:13

had been all but extinguished. The

27:17

plan of those who settled at Jamestown

27:19

was to establish another England in a distant

27:22

land. In the end, however,

27:24

the colony of Jamestown and the people

27:27

who eventually settled there would

27:29

become only one of a vast array

27:31

of different people and ideas that

27:34

together would evolve into the nation

27:36

that America is today, a

27:39

place that was not born from one idea

27:41

or one way of life, but from

27:43

multitudes. As

27:46

for the fate of those early settlers at Roanoke,

27:49

it is said that in seventeen oh one, while

27:52

conducting a survey of the Mid East coast,

27:55

engineer John Lawson found

27:57

himself anchored off the shore of Crowetoa,

28:00

An Island. Having

28:02

made his way to land, he was soon

28:04

after greeted by what he assumed to be

28:06

a local community of Native Americans.

28:10

Only they weren't like any he had ever

28:12

come across before. Their

28:15

skin was a little paler, their

28:18

hair less dark, and their

28:20

eyes unusually gray in color.

28:24

These people claimed, apparently that

28:26

some of their ancestors, more pale

28:29

skinned than them, had arrived

28:31

a hundred years before from

28:33

a country very far away.

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