circumnavigation of the globe by the fleet of Magalhaens, which he so
fussily sent to Pope Adrian to be read and printed, also lost! Hakluyt,
in his volume of 1589, dated in his preface the 19th of November, gives
something of a chronicle of Virginian events, 1584-1589, with a reprint
of this book. But there are reasons for believing that this is not the
chronicle which Hariot refers to. As White's original drawings have
recently turned up after nearly three centuries, may we not still hope
to see also Hariot's Chronicle?

However, till these lost jewels are found let us appreciate what is
still left to us. Hariot's 'True Report' is usually considered the first
original authority in our language relating to that part of English
North America now called the United States, and is indeed so full and
trustworthy that almost everything of a primeval character that we know
of 'Ould Virginia' may be traced back to it as to a first parent. It is
an integral portion of English history, for England supplied the
enterprise and the men. It is equally an integral portion of American
history, for America supplied the scene and the material.

Without any preliminary flourish or subsequent reflections, the learned
author simply and truthfully portrays in 1585-6 the land and the people
of Virginia, the condition and commodities of the one, with the habits
and character of the other, of that narrow strip of coast lying between
Cape Fear and the Chesapeake, chiefly in the present State of North
Carolina. This land, called by the natives Wingandacoa, was named in
England in 1584 Virginia, in compliment to Queen Elizabeth. This name at
first covered only a small district, but afterwards it possessed varying
limits, extending at one time over North Virginia even to 45 degrees
north.