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Show r i ill th Si TFTTT Roanoke Island FFFF pprgg U1A" TKHL " " i I FOP or OUR COMIC SECTION m ST Events in the lives of Little Men 0 "too IS friEEE. - vi . wk wwfaj!...-l- . - - on Roanoka Island. weather and lack of supplies, forced the party to sail away before the clue engineer! bare thrust could be investigated. trail down the MODERN offDare What had been the colonists' fate? the North Carolina The blazed sign was all that was coast and built the Wright ever found of the Lost Colonies exMemorial bridge across Currituck marks of departure, burned sound, bringing the Islands Into touch cept hasty with the modern world, yet the vUitor chests, rusty iron implements, household effects, and books. Even in that till finds In Roanoke Island the wilderness colonists of Shakespeare's speech and customs common In the could not exist without books. day folof whose Sir Walter days Raleigh Whatever the fate of the colonists, lowers established there the first Engeither they or their early successors lish settlement in America. From the skipper of the small mall left their Elizabethan English dialect, manners, customs, and features in boat that plies between the islands one may supplement bis limited this American byway. As the little mail boat bobs along knowledge' of this region supplied by toward Roanoke Island, the traveler's obsolete descriptions and by copies of the original letters and maps left by thoughts turn from the story of VirSir Walter Raleigh's adventurers, lie ginia Dare and the first colonists to another historic drama of the Banks. learns that Roanoke Jsland perfectly In 1812, Just across the channel from exemplifies the adage that byways of Roanoke island, on the ocean sand Isolation pocket the choicest realities of spies Head, the pilot boat PaNags of life. Here Is a genuine, Inbred Theodosla Burr Alston, triot, carrying dignity, expressive of a of Aaron Burr and wife of daughter folk. The islanders are hospitable Governor Alston of South Carolina, proud of their physique, speech, manended its last voyage. After the tragic ners, and customs historic survivals collapse of her father's career and the of old English Devon. The ubiquitous automobile did not loss of her little son, the only hope the Burr family, Mrs. Alston was reach Roanoke Island until less than of In the depths of despair. She set sail a decade ago. For land transportafrom Georgetown, S. C, to join her tion there were op to that time only forlonely carts and sand ponies and ever I father, and disappeared occasional oxcarts. Even the little Life on the Island. rand ponies' tradition went back to A bit of life on Roanoke Is revealed castaway vessels, to the Portuguese and to Sir Walter Raleigh's voyagers. by a recent visitor, a woman doctor. An old midwife and nurse, the widOn Raleigh's attempts at colonization hinged momentous results in the ow of a life service man, was to care New world. The "Lost Colonies," for her temporarily in her ancient cottage by the sound, where she lived though they began and ended Sir Walter's ventures upon the North Carolina alone. Her name was "Mis' " Bashl the "Mis'" an island designation for Sea Islands, were the first English-speakinmistress, and "Bashl," she said, "a settlements in America. Bible name after Bathsheba, the wife Discovered In 1584. of Uriah ; but they call me BasliL" In 1584 the adventurer obtained a Surnames on the Island do not depatent from. Queen Elizabeth, whose note the individual, for the families favors his genius readily commanded, in a hamlet are usually all members and dispatched to the New world the of one or two clans. first of his expeditions. The little "I'll wipe the dustles off you, your band, under Amadas and Barlowe, cornbread Is waltln', and your cake sailed through an inlet on July 4, 1584, all dressed up In coconut." to discover Roanoke Island a spot so Mis' Bashl stirred about the favored In climate and setting and' so old brick fireplace, with Its rich in fruits, game, and bird life crane and flredogs, and brought from that it seemed to them a veritable the coals an old d skillet In paradise. which she had baked a delicious Ruck to England they sailed to deLying on the hearth was a scribe it, taking with them two friendmammoth bushy-tailed- , cat, ly Indian chiefs; and also tobacco, one of the numerous beautiful desassafras, maize, pumpkins, squash, scendants of an Island Maltese and a grapes, and other fruits. Their story brown, bushy-taileNorwegian cat created excitement, and in the followthat had been the sole survivor of a wreck. ing year Raleigh sent out Sir Richard Grenvllle with a second colony, numIn a worn rocker in which bering 108 souls, determined to make the old woman had rooked her six a permanent home on Roanoke island children the doctor res'ed after dinand establish plantations. ner and listened to her tale of a reThey landed on August 17, 15S5. markable life history. and built a log fortification, to which What she learned entitles Mis' Bashl they gave the name "The New Fort in to a place In the annals of medical Virginia." also spoken of as "Fort history. The old nurse belonged to ' Raleigh." However, they could not the Island's remnant. Her blood, her live at peace, with the Indians, ..and sterling character, and her beautiful, the entire colony sailed back with Sir broad dialect were heritages of the Francis Drake in 1580, just two weeks old Devonshire castaway. She was before the arrival of reinforcements. comely and agile, her visage one of Finding the fort deserted, the new strength and thought. group also returned to England, but Of only five weeks "schoolin," she left 15 men on the island. had never learned to read, but had sent out by been taught to work Indoors and out A third expedition, Raleigh in 1587. found the fort deand to spin. At sixteen "out" (old) molished and no trace of the 15 men she married and at twenty-on"out," except the hones of one slain by the In a far life service station hamlet, savages. The gruesome discovery was she undertook her first obstetrical a shock to the hoineseekers, and they case. willingly followed the advice of their "Doctor, I knew nothln' of It; but leader, John White, to forestall future Mehaley rend me a doctor buok, and hostility by making friends of the Inthe moon was comln' to full, so the dians. The plan succeeded admirably. baby would be thrifty. One born in Manteo, one of the friendly chiefs, was the dark of the moon is not" even baptized and given a title of noMis' Bashl's Nursing. bility as Lord of Roanoke the first On her little plantation, In pine English peerage In America. woods by the sound, though widowed , Virginia Dare's Birth. later, she cared for a psychiatric On August 18, 15S7, five days after mother, raised her own brood and her the baptism of the Indian, was born mother's and her brother's children, John White's granddaughter, Virginia cared for cows, pigs, and gardens. Dare, the first English native of Then for 45 years she ministered to America. She was baptized on the all the sick of the region, a local doe-to- r following Sunday. Thus was Elizacoming only at rare Intervals. Her sand pony Napoleon carried bethan civilisation anchored here by a baby, a mother, and the American her In a cart through woods and sand and water. In gale or family. Around little Virginia Dare resunshine, to her patients. Often afoot mained more than a hundred men, she swung with her Viking stride down women and chillren. They were left beaches or through the woods. She Then John was smart, exact, and knowing, though alone for three years. White, who had gone back to England she signed by mark, and she was known as a "couthy" (capable) womafter establishing the colory, returned an, ner dignity of bearing and courto find that they had disappeared. The only promising clue White tesy were exquisite. Thus she fell found was the sign "CIIO" blazed on Into the role that nature cast for her. Months later the doctor realized a tree. Since these letters were part how the personality of this Island of a code agreed upon by the colonists three years before, the rescue party woman, linked with a touch of hoped that their friends had gone to science, prevented morbid results from household conditions. 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