soon after have fallen to some other promoter. But Raleigh was the
Devonshire war-horse that first snuffed the breeze from afar. He
fathered and took upon himself the burden of this newborn English
enterprise of Western Planting.

Though unsuccessful himself, Raleigh lifted his country into success
more than any other one man of his time. To this day he is honoured
alike in the old country that gave him birth, and in the new country to
which he gave new life. His energy, enterprise, and fame are now a part
of England's history and pride, while his disgrace and death belong to
his king. Thomas Hariot was for nearly forty years his confidential
lieutenant throughout his varied career.

From his youth Raleigh had sympathized, like many intelligent
Englishmen, with the Huguenot cause in France. As early as 1569, at the
age of seventeen, he had been one of a hundred volunteers whom Elizabeth
sent over to assist and countenance Coligni. He thus probably became
better acquainted with the great but unsuccessful scheme of colonizing
Florida. At all events the history of that disastrous French Huguenot
colonization was first published under his auspices, and a chief
survivor, Jacques Le Moyne, became attached to his service and
interests. The story is in brief as follows.

Gaspar de Coligni, Admiral of France, often in our day called the French
Raleigh, was a Protestant, and firm friend of England. One of his
captains, Jean Ribault, of Dieppe, also a Protestant, had written an
important paper on the policy of preserving peace with Protestant
England. That paper, transmitted by the Admiral to England, is still
preserved in the national archives. Ribault became the leader of
Coligni's preliminary expedition in 1562 into Florida to seek out a