7. How did Governor Lane occupy himself? What wonderful story
was told Lane by the Indians?

8. How did Lane regard this story? Give an account of his
expedition up the Roanoke River. Point out Williamston.

9. What did Governor Lane find to be the condition of affairs
upon his return to the settlement?

10. What plot was discovered? How did Governor Lane prevent it?

11. What was the effect of this treatment? What help arrived
from England?

12. What did the colonists resolve to do? What is said of this
attempt to found a colony?




CHAPTER VIII.

GOVERNOR WHITE'S COLONY.

A. D. 1586 TO 1590.

It must have been a sore trial to Sir Walter Raleigh when he
learned that his colonists had returned to England. He had sent
over a ship with abundant supplies, which reached Roanoke only a
few days after Sir Francis Drake sailed away with his fleet.