Show MAY BE SETTLERS group of people in north carolina hard to account for in any other way there lives in the woods and swamps of robeson county north carolina a strange group of 0 people in appearance somewhat resembling portuguese or mulattoes their manners customs and personal appearances are unlike those of 0 any other race on the american continent says the southern workman and inter courna with their neighbors la is limited to the extent which necessity demands demanda harking back to 1587 it will be recalled that one of the expeditions ol 01 0 colonists sent out from england by sir walter raleigh arrived arrid on roanoke island north carolina under the command of capt john white capt john white never saw hla his people after ho he deft them on roanoke island and returned to england tor for supplies when he returned the little band it Is supposed had gone to the mainland and been absorbed in an indian tribe it is now believed that the descendants of this tribe of indians indiana are at this time living in robeson county where more than thirty families have names similar to those of whites colonists |