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Show PLACE OF DISMAL HISTORY RoanokV Island Known to' Fame Be- cause It Was Site of Raleigh's j Ill-Fated Colony. tn018,? 8tretch' andy beach Jt f111 Carolina lies Roanoke island. -lTthllC 0t vlrKlnia Dare, the first English child bora in America. . Sir Walter Raleigh was responsible for Roanoke island being placed on the Pages of history, for In 1585 he sent out a colonizing expedition to America, and fate and the rough winds of the Atlantic Atlan-tic cast the ship up on Roanoke island. is-land. On account of the climate, the lack of food and the ubiquitous Indian In-dian the Island was voted as- uninhabitable unin-habitable by the colonists, who pncked their belongings and took the next ship back to England and civilization. y " ' But Raleigh was not discouraged. He ' sent out another colony, which consented consent-ed to stay, and the man in charge of the expedition returned with the glad news. Four years later, when Sir Walter Wal-ter Raleigh sent him to report on the progress of the colony, he found on the island no trace of settler or settlement set-tlement save the inscription "Croatan" carved on a tree. Sir Walter then ; , gave up the Roanoke Island project aa hopeless. . ' - Roanoke island has now been Inhabited In-habited for muny years, chiefly by fishermen fish-ermen and life-savers. The latter are negroes from the coast guard station at Pea Island, which is separated from Eoanoke Island by the sound. Pea Island, the only coast guard station In this country manned by negroes, Is off a dangerous section of tho coast A . . derelict ship cast on the beach Is snck- . d farther Into the sands by each tide. The colored guardsmen have -established an excellent record in "" a trying and dangerous station. Chicago Chi-cago Dally News. |
