from Walsingham the first of September previous. Hakluyt with his mind
full of voyages and travels was abundantly competent to appreciate De
Bry's project of publishing a luxurious edition of Laudonnière's Florida
illustrated with the exquisite drawings of Le Moyne. Ever ready to make
a good thing better, Hakluyt suggested the addition of Le Moyne's and
other Florida papers; and introduced De Bry to John White, Governor of
Virginia, then in London.

White, an English painter of eminence and merit, was as an artist to
Virginia what Le Moyne his master had been to Florida. Le Moyne had
twenty years before mapped and pictured everything in Florida from the
River of May to Cape Fear, and White had done the same for Raleigh's
Colony in Virginia (now North Carolina) from Cape Fear to the Chesapeake
Bay. Le Moyne had spent a year with Laudonnière at Fort Caroline in
1564-65, and White had been a whole year in and about Roanoke and the
wilderness of Virginia in 1585-86 as the right hand man of Hariot.

Together Hariot and White surveyed, mapped, pictured and described the
country, the Indians, men and women; the animals, birds, fishes, trees,
plants, fruits and vegetables. Hariot's Report or epitome of his
Chronicle, reproduced by the Hercules Club, was privately printed in
February 1589. A volume containing seventy-six of White's original
drawings in water colours is now preserved in the Grenville library in
the British Museum, purchased by the Trustees in March 1866 of Mr Henry
Stevens at the instigation of Mr Panizzi, and placed there as an
appropriate pendant to the world-renowned Grenville De Bry. This is the
very volume that White painted for Raleigh, and which served De Bry for
his Virginia. Only 23 out of the 76 drawings were engraved, the rest
never yet having been published. Thus Hariot's text and map with White's
drawings are necessary complements to each other and should be mentioned