which was stolen from him during his stay at an Indian town. The
passionate seaman, in a rage, demanded its return by the Indians,
whom he charged with stealing it. They did not comply, and he,
with great imprudence and injustice, burned the whole village and
destroyed all the corn.

6. This was the first taste afforded the Indians of how harshly
they might expect to be treated, and, though no war followed
immediately, they neither forgot nor forgave Grenville's
punishment, and many unexpected injuries were inflicted upon the
poor settlers by the Indians on account of this rash and cruel
act.

7. Governor Lane, after the admiral's departure, continued his
explorations, in order to learn the geography and nature of the
country. He ascended the Chowan River to near the mouth of the
Nottoway and penetrated the interior as far as the Indian village
of Chowanoke. Instead of clearing fields and making provisions
for his people; he was laboriously searching for gold mines and
jewels. He was told by the chief of the Chowanoke Indians, whom
he held as prisoner for two days, that such things abounded along
the upper reaches of Roanoke River (then called the "Moratock"),
and that the headwaters of that stream extended to within an
arrow's flight of a great ocean to the west, and along the banks
of the river lived a very great and wealthy race of people, whose
walled cities glittered with pearls and gold.

8. Fired in imagination by this false and wicked Indian story,
preparations were made for a journey in boats, longer than had
yet been attempted. They found the swift current of the Roanoke