for them of fruits, melons, fish and venison, and showed them
every kindness.

9. Amadas and Barlowe proceeded, in the presence of many Indians,
to lay claim to the country for their queen. This whole pageant
was probably a dumb show to the astonished and ignorant natives.
They neither knew nor cared what the white men were celebrating
with beating drums, flaunting banners and salvos of artillery.

10. This expedition had not been sent with any purpose of
settlement; so, in a few weeks after the ceremony of taking
possession, the fleet weighed anchor and sailed back to England.
They carried with them a large cargo of skins and valuable woods,
which they had obtained in trading with the Indians. For a
bright tin dish the Indians gave twenty skins, worth about thirty-
five dollars, and fifty valuable skins were given for an old
copper kettle. Amadas and Barlowe also carried to England the
first knowledge of the potato and tobacco.

11. With their own consent, two Indians, named Manteo and
Wanchese, were taken aboard and carried to England, that they
might see something of the world across the sea. They afforded a
singular test of human nature. They were of equal abilities, and
yet, by the visit to England, Manteo became the friend, Wanchese
the implacable enemy of the white men.

[NOTE--The Indians were greatly amazed at the sight of gunpowder,
the cause of all the noise in the artillery. On one of their
expeditions they captured a quantity of powder from the
colonists, and, to increase the supply, they made rows in the