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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The White Doe, by Sallie Southall Cotten
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+Title: The White Doe
+       The Fate of Virginia Dare
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+Author: Sallie Southall Cotten
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+THE WHITE DOE
+
+THE FATE OF
+VIRGINIA DARE
+
+_AN INDIAN LEGEND_
+
+BY
+
+SALLIE
+SOUTHALL
+COTTEN
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Printed for the Author
+BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA
+
+
+
+
+Copyright, 1901
+
+BY SALLIE SOUTHALL COTTEN
+
+_All rights reserved_
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+"While within its bright'ning dimness,
+With the misty halo 'round her,
+Stood a beautiful white maiden"
+
+Page 70]
+
+
+
+
+TO
+
+The National Society
+of
+Colonial Dames of America
+
+WHOSE PATRIOTIC WORK HAS STIMULATED
+RESEARCH INTO AN IMPORTANT AND
+INTERESTING PERIOD OF THE HISTORY OF
+
+OUR BELOVED COUNTRY
+
+
+
+
+FORGOTTEN FACTS AND FANCIES
+OF AMERICAN HISTORY
+
+
+AS civilization advances there develops in the heart of man a higher
+appreciation of the past, and the deeds of preceding generations come
+to be viewed with a calm criticism which denudes those deeds of false
+splendor and increases the lustre of real accomplishment. Man cannot
+see into the future and acquire the prescience of coming events which
+would make him infallible, but he can remove the veil from the past,
+contemplate the mistakes and successes of those who have lived before
+him, and who struggled with the same problems which now confront him.
+The results of their efforts are recorded in history, and inspired by
+high ideals he can study the past, and by feeding his lamp of wisdom
+with the oil of their experiences he secures a greater light to guide
+his own activities. Man remains a slave to Fate until Knowledge makes
+him free, and while all true knowledge comes from experience, it need
+not necessarily be _personal_ experience.
+
+In studying the past, deeds come to be estimated more with reference to
+their ultimate results and as factors in universal progress, and less
+as personal efforts; just as more and more the personal merges into the
+universal in all lines of endeavor. Viewed in this light of ultimate
+results an imperishable and increased lustre envelops the name of Sir
+Walter Raleigh as the pioneer and faithful promoter of English
+colonization in America. The recognition of his services by the people
+who reap the reward of his labors has ever been too meagre. A portrait
+here and there, the name of the capital city in a State, a mention
+among other explorers on a tablet in the National Library, the name of
+a battleship, and a few pages in history, help to remind us of his
+association with this nation. Perhaps a few may recognize his personal
+colors--red and white--in the binding in this book, and his Coat of
+Arms in the heraldic device which ornaments the cover, and which are
+mentioned "lest we forget" one we should honor.
+
+The present and ever increasing greatness of these United States is due
+to the efforts of this remarkable man, who so wondrously combined in
+one personality the attributes of statesman, courtier, soldier,
+scientist, poet, explorer, and martyr. Isabella of Spain offered her
+jewels to aid Columbus, and the deed has been lauded and celebrated as
+of international value, yet it contained no touch of personal
+sacrifice. She was never deprived of her jewels, and while her generous
+offer proved her faith in the theories and ability of Columbus, it
+brought to her no suffering. On the other hand, the efforts of Sir
+Walter Raleigh were at his own expense, and entailed financial disaster
+on him in the end. That he sought to extend the power of England must
+be admitted by those who correctly estimate his character; yet no one
+will deny that he was the most important factor in the colonization of
+America by the English. Spain, France, and England contended long for
+supremacy in the New World, but France failed to gain any permanent
+power, and Spanish dominance, as illustrated in South America and
+Mexico, was followed by slow progress. It was the English race, _led by
+Raleigh_, which has become the leading power and modern strength of
+America. Colony after colony he sent to the new land, and desisted not,
+even after the death of his half-brother and coadjutor, Sir Humphrey
+Gilbert. Disaster could not daunt so brave a spirit, and with
+unsurpassed enterprise and perseverance he continued to send
+expeditions year after year to what is now the coast of North Carolina,
+but which was then called Virginia, and recognized as Raleigh's
+possessions. Much money was required, and when his own fortune was
+exhausted he transferred to what is known as the London Company his
+rights to the land, and _by his advice_ they avoided his mistakes and
+made the next settlement at Jamestown instead of Roanoak Island.
+
+These facts have been temporarily obscured by the moss of neglect, but
+they cannot be destroyed. They will ever remain the foundation-stones
+of the great structure known and respected among nations as the United
+States of America, and were laid by Sir Walter Raleigh at Roanoak
+Island, on the coast of North Carolina, which was then called Virginia.
+The intervening years have brought great results, those early struggles
+have ripened into success and greatness beyond Raleigh's most sanguine
+dreams. A new race has arisen, yet bearing the characteristics of the
+race from which it sprung. Our English ancestors, our heritage of
+English law and custom, of religion and home life, of language and
+ideals, all tempered by the development of new characteristics, bind us
+_through him_ to England.
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh was not an ordinary man. He was one of the most
+remarkable of a coterie of remarkable men whom a remarkable queen
+(Elizabeth) gathered around her, and to whom she owed much of the
+grandeur of her remarkable reign. Elizabeth's greatest gift was a
+capacity for discerning and using great minds, and she had the good
+fortune to find many around her at that period of time. Raleigh won her
+favor, and received from her many benefits, among which was the honor
+of knighthood with its emoluments, which she conferred. In the end her
+favor cost him dear, because his heart had the courage to be true to
+itself in love. Elizabeth never forgave him for loving, marrying, and
+being true until death to her maid of honor, the beautiful Elizabeth
+Throckmorton. That vain and jealous queen permitted no rivals, and she
+wished to reign over the heart of this man, who, handsome, brave,
+gallant, intelligent, and romantic, made an ideal courtier. His life at
+court was brilliant but brief. Love anchored a soul attuned to loftier
+deeds, and after his marriage his career as a courtier was eclipsed by
+his later exploits as a statesman, warrior, explorer, and author. He
+planned and participated in many expeditions which brought benefit to
+his queen and added to his own fortune, yet none of his expeditions
+have borne such an ever-increasing harvest of results as those he sent
+to America. He began that work in 1584, and continued to send
+expeditions in 1585-1586-1587, until the invasion of England by the
+Spanish Armada forced him to other activities, and even then he sent
+two expeditions to the relief of the colonists, which, because of the
+exigencies of war, failed to reach America. In fact, the attitude of
+Spain towards England at that time was the greatest obstacle which
+militated against the success of his colonies. His ships and his valor
+were necessary to suppress and check the insolence and ambition of
+Spain, who designed to conquer England and become mistress of the
+world. By his valor, loyalty, and wisdom Raleigh was largely
+instrumental in bringing about the failure of those plans and in
+defeating the Spanish fleet, which had been boastingly named The
+Invincible Armada. Again his zeal and cool daring won for England the
+great victory of Cadiz, which has always ranked as the most remarkable
+achievement in the annals of naval warfare. With only seven ships he
+dashed in and destroyed a large Spanish fleet (fifty-five ships) in its
+own harbor with a dexterity and valor not surpassed even by Dewey at
+Manila nor by Schley at Santiago.
+
+Spain was always his foe because she feared him, and it seems like the
+Nemesis of fate that three hundred years later the death-blow of Spain
+as a world power was dealt in Manila Bay by the nation which Raleigh
+strove so hard to plant, himself all unconscious of what the years were
+to bring. On that famous morning when Dewey startled the world and
+chastised Spain for her insolence and cruelty, the ship which fired the
+first shot in a battle destined to change the rating of two nations,
+the ship which first replied to the fire of the Spanish forts, as if
+answering the challenge of an old-time foe,--that ship was the
+_Raleigh_, named in honor of that great man by the nation he had
+fostered, and in that battle Raleigh's foe was humbled, Raleigh's fame
+perpetuated, and Raleigh's death avenged.
+
+After the death of Elizabeth the star of Raleigh set. He whose most
+valiant work had been the defense of England against the attacks of
+Spain was falsely charged with treasonable negotiations with Spain, and
+after a farce of a trial was thrown into prison, where he remained more
+than twelve years. The only mitigations of the horrors of prison life
+were the presence of his devoted wife and his books. He had always been
+a student, and he spent the weary hours of his long confinement in
+that companionship which is known only to those who really love books,
+and to such minds they prove a panacea for sorrow and injustice. During
+that imprisonment he wrote his famous "History of the World," marking
+the eventful epoch by writing a history of the Old World at the same
+time that he was opening the gates of the future by planting English
+colonies in the New World. As soon as he was released from prison his
+mind returned to schemes of exploration. He made a voyage to South
+America, where new disasters befell him, and where his oldest son was
+killed. Shattered by grief and misfortune he returned to England, where
+his enemies had planned his certain downfall. Again he was sent to
+prison, but not for a long time, for soon his princely head paid the
+penalty which true greatness has too often paid to the power of a weak
+king. As a subject he was loyal and valiant, as a husband faithful and
+devoted, as a father affectionate and inspiring, as a scholar
+distinguished in prose and poetry, as a soldier he won fame and
+fortune, as a statesman he contributed to the renown of his sovereign's
+realm, and as a man he lived and died guided by the highest ideals.
+This was the man who spent a fortune trying to establish English
+colonies in North America, and who sent repeated expeditions to the
+island of Roanoak, situated where the waters of the Albemarle and
+Pamlico Sounds meet, on the coast of North Carolina, but which was then
+called Virginia.
+
+The island wears a cluster of historic jewels which should endear it to
+all patriotic Anglo-Americans. To them it should be the most sacred,
+the best loved spot in all the United States. There the first English
+settlements were made which led to English supremacy in the New World.
+There the first home altar was reared and the first child of English
+parents in the United States was born and baptized. There the blood of
+Englishmen first dyed the sod of North America, and there the first
+attempts at English agriculture were made. There was enacted the
+tragedy of American colonization, the disappearance of Raleigh's Lost
+Colony, and there the sacrament of baptism was first administered in
+the United States. Roanoak Island is a beautiful place, with fertile
+soil and wild luxuriance of vine-covered forests which are enveloped in
+a deep solitude which has become dignity. Restless waters ebb and flow
+by its side, restless winds kiss its bare sand dunes, a genial sun
+brings to maturity its wealth of tree and vine and shrub. Protected
+from the storms which ravage the ocean beyond, it sleeps in quiet
+beauty, content with its heritage of fame as _the first home of the
+English race in America_.
+
+Its isolated position, its wild beauty, its tragic associations, its
+dignified repose, all seem to have set it aside from the rush of modern
+progress that it might become a shrine for the homage of a patriotic
+people.
+
+The wonderful fertility of the soil of this island seemed a marvel to
+the early explorers, all of whom have testified to it. Ralph Lane,
+governor of the colony of 1585, in writing to Raleigh of the island and
+the surrounding country, declared it to be "the goodliest soil under
+the cope of heaven," and that "being inhabited with English no realm in
+Christendom were comparable to it;" every word of which is true now,
+provided that the English who inhabit it follow the suggestions of
+nature and adopt horticulture as the developing means. The surrounding
+country as well as Roanoak Island has a wealth of climbing vines and
+clustering grapes which point instinctively to grape culture. Amadas
+and Barlowe (1584) wrote that they found the land "so full of grapes as
+the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them, of which we
+found such plenty, as well there as in all places else, both on the
+sand and on the green soil, on the hills as on the plains, as well as
+on every little shrub as also climbing towards the top of high cedars,
+that I think in all the world the like abundance is not to be found."
+
+[Illustration: A Scuppernong Vineyard, Roanoak Island]
+
+Surely no other such natural vineyard was ever found outside the fabled
+Garden of the Gods!
+
+Even in this generation an old resident of the Banks, an ante-bellum
+pilot on these waters, has testified that his grandfather could
+remember the time "when if a vessel were stranded on any of the beaches
+the crew could crawl to land on the grapevines hanging over where now
+there is only a dry sand beach." Throughout the eastern part of that
+State (North Carolina) the grape riots in natural luxuriance and is
+luscious and fragrant. Many varieties remain wild, while others have
+been improved by cultivation. The three finest native American grapes,
+the Catawba, the Isabella, and the Scuppernong, are all indigenous to
+the soil of North Carolina. The Catawba, native to the banks of the
+river Catawba, from which it takes its name, is still found wild in
+North Carolina, while it has become celebrated at the North as a
+table-grape, and in Ohio as a wine-grape. In its adopted home it has
+revolutionized land values because of the money value of the product.
+The Isabella grape, so generally cultivated for table use, is thought
+to be a hybrid between the Burgundy and the native fox-grape of the
+Carolinas. The tradition runs that the Burgundy was brought to South
+Carolina by the Huguenots, and that cuttings from this hybrid were
+brought to North Carolina and successfully propagated. Mrs. Isabella
+Gibbs, for whom this well-known grape was named, carried a vine from
+North Carolina to Long Island, where it attracted attention because of
+its hardiness.
+
+To the people of the South Atlantic coast the Scuppernong is by far the
+most important of the native grapes, for while it refuses to flourish
+away from its native home, yet its great possibilities as a wine-grape
+are beginning to be appreciated. All the early explorers gave it
+special mention. Hariot in his famous Narrative wrote, "There are two
+kinds of grapes that the soil does yield naturally, the one is small
+and sour, of the ordinary bigness of ours in England; the other far
+greater and of _himself luscious sweet_. When they are planted and
+husbanded as they ought, a principal commodity of wines by them may be
+raised." (Hakluyt, 1586.) Lawson in his history (1714) describes
+several varieties, and dwells on the abundant supply of grapes and the
+great tangles of green vines. He wrote of a native _white_ grape, which
+many in that day thought existed only in his imagination; but it was
+a reality and was the now well-known Scuppernong, whose fame history
+and tradition both perpetuate, and whose real worth, greater than its
+legendary fame, is now being recognized and appreciated. There are
+several varieties of the Scuppernong, all luscious and yielding rich
+juices, and when ripe they fill the air with a fragrance unknown to any
+other grape.
+
+[Illustration: Old "Mother" Scuppernong Vine.]
+
+The first Scuppernong vine known to history was found on the mainland
+of the North Carolina coast by Amadas and Barlowe on their first voyage
+(1584). Tradition relates that they transplanted this vine to Roanoak
+Island. On this island there still flourishes an old vine, which
+despite its gnarled body and evident age continues to bear fruit. It is
+claimed that it is the same vine Amadas and Barlowe planted. Some
+insist that it was planted by Sir Walter Raleigh himself, but as that
+famous knight did not realize his wish to visit his new possessions in
+North America, the honor of having planted the vine must revert to
+Amadas and Barlowe. It seems to be endowed with perennial youth, and
+the harvest from its branches is an annual certainty.
+
+What the early explorers testified as to the abundant supply of grapes
+on the Carolina coast, and the propitious conditions existing for the
+propagation of the vine, is equally true to-day. The manifest destiny
+of North Carolina as the rival of Southern France in the production of
+wines seems to be inevitable. The marvel is how it has been so long
+delayed after Hariot's special mention of such possibilities. Hariot
+was a close observer with a practical mind, and the presence of an
+indigenous supply of material to sustain an important industry
+suggested to him that the people coming to this grape-laden land might
+establish such an industry to their advantage. The delay of the
+development of grape-culture in its native home can only be explained
+on the theory that when nature boldly invites, man becomes shy. This
+indifference to grape-culture is peculiar to America, for in Europe all
+the aristocracy who are land-owners, where the climate makes it
+possible, are cultivators of the grape, take great pride in their
+wines, boast of their rare and fine vintages, and hold the making of
+wine as one of the fine arts.
+
+The original Scuppernong has white skin, white pulp, white juice, and
+makes a white wine. Other varieties have dark purple skins and yield a
+reddish juice which makes a red wine. The dark varieties are said to be
+_seedlings_ from the original white variety, and tradition explains the
+metamorphosis in this way.
+
+[Illustration: Among the Scuppernongs.--A Modern Vineyard.]
+
+In the magic spring made famous in the legend of The White Doe, after
+the blood of Virginia Dare had melted from the silver arrow into the
+water of the spring, then the water disappeared. As the legend says:
+
+    "Dry became the magic fountain,
+    Leaving bare the silver arrow."
+
+Then while O-kis-ko looked on in wonderment he saw
+
+            "a tiny shoot with leaflets
+    Pushing upward to the sunlight."
+
+Tradition says that this "tiny shoot with leaflets" was a young
+seedling of the Scuppernong which had sprouted in the edge of the
+water, and it was not seen by O-kis-ko until all the water had
+disappeared. Then he saw it and immediately associated its appearance
+with the magic arrow, and so left it "reaching upward to the sunlight."
+After many days he returned to the spot-drawn by an irresistible
+longing, and covered the fatal arrow, which had brought him so much
+woe, with earth and leaves to hide it from his sight. The earth and
+leaves furnished the necessary nourishment to the tiny vine, which
+reached out with strength and vigor, and finding friendly bushes upon
+which to climb, it soon made a sheltering bower above the spot where
+had bubbled the magic spring. This tiny green bower became the favorite
+retreat of O-kis-ko, where he would linger to cherish thoughts of his
+lost love, Virginia Dare, and marvel on the wonders of her death. Then
+it came to pass that when fruit came upon this vine, lo! it was purple
+in hue instead of white like the other grapes, and yielded a _red_
+juice. Full of superstition, and still credulous of marvels, O-kis-ko
+imagined the change to be due to the magic arrow buried at its root. He
+gathered the grapes and pressed the juice from them, and lo! it was
+_red_--it was the semblance of blood, _Virginia Dare's blood_, absorbed
+from the water (in which it had melted from the arrow) by the vine, and
+yet potent for good. Surely it held some unseen power, for it combined
+in some mystic way through the mysterious earth at his feet all the
+power of the magic spring, the power of the silver arrow, and the power
+of human blood consecrated through human love. He reverently drank the
+juice of this new vine, believing that it would in some way link him
+with the spirit of her he had loved and lost. Year after year he drank
+this juice and fed his soul on thoughts of love, making unconsciously a
+sacrament, and finding happiness in the thought that the blood of the
+maiden would feed his spirit and lead him to her at last. To become
+good like her and to go to her became his highest hope. Aspiration had
+been born in his soul, and quickened by love it could not die, but led
+him blindly to strive to reach her, and such striving is never in vain.
+
+[Illustration: A "Virginia Dare" Vineyard.]
+
+Another fact that should be enshrined in the hearts and perpetuated in
+the memorials of the nation, is that on Roanoak Island the first
+Christian baptism in the United States was administered. By order of
+Sir Walter Raleigh, Manteo, the friendly Indian chief, was baptized
+soon after the arrival of the colony under Governor White, and the
+following Sunday Virginia Dare, the granddaughter of Governor White,
+was baptized, both events being officially reported to Raleigh. In this
+day of religious freedom any enforced adoption of religious forms
+shocks our pious instincts. Yet baptism has always been considered
+_necessary_ to salvation, and in the past the zeal of Christians for
+the salvation of their fellow-men often assumed the form of mild force.
+We read where the Spaniards, always religious fanatics, administered
+the Holy Sacrament to thousands in Central America and Mexico _at the
+point of the sword_; their zeal misleading them to force upon those
+less enlightened than themselves the hope of that heaven which they
+believed to be accessible only through certain Christian rites. So to
+order the baptism of an Indian chief seems a simple, kindly thing, and
+most probably Manteo desired it done. The only other Indian who
+received baptism in those early settlements was Pocahontas, in 1614.
+She was a captive at the time and held as a hostage to induce Powhatan
+to comply with certain demands of the colonists at Jamestown.
+
+Despite the fact that Virginia Dare was baptized twenty-seven years
+earlier than Pocahontas, yet it is the Indian Princess who is figured
+in the painting on the walls of the dome of the Capitol at Washington
+as receiving the first baptism in the colonies. Buried in the annals of
+that time lies the fact that twenty-seven years before any colonist
+even came to Jamestown, Virginia Dare was born and baptized, as the
+sequence of Christian birth and as the child of Christian parents.
+Virginia Dare was not a myth. She was a living, breathing reality, a
+human creature of good English descent, the granddaughter of the
+governor of the colonies, the daughter of the assistant governor, and a
+sharer in the mysterious fate of Raleigh's Lost Colony. The historical
+facts of her life and the legend of her fate and death are contained in
+the pages of "The White Doe."
+
+Her baptism would not have been mentioned in the records if it had not
+been official and proper. In a new land, surrounded by dangers and
+difficulties, with strange environment to divert the mind to other
+channels, it would have been easy and natural for her baptism to have
+been delayed if not altogether neglected amid the stress of events. Her
+prompt baptism and the official report of the event to Sir Walter
+Raleigh is convincing testimony to the presence of a chaplain at
+Roanoak.
+
+
+THE FIRST BAPTISM IN THE WILDS OF AMERICA!
+
+How naturally the scene rises before us. The young mother, her heart
+thrilling with the mysteries of love and life, and elated with the joy
+of motherhood, alert to the dangers of the new land, and suspicious of
+the strange people among whom her blue-eyed treasure must live, yet
+yielding cheerfully to the busy smiling English women who had crossed
+the ocean with her, and now with womanly intuition ministered to her
+needs. We can picture them making tidy the confused household, and
+stilling the cries of the infant as they prepare her to receive the
+sign of the cross. We can almost picture them deliberating over a
+choice from among their limited supply of vessels of one worthy to
+become the receptacle of the water to be used. It was on the
+Sabbath-Day, and the dedication to God of the wee creature who had so
+newly come among them was a fitting observance of the day. The solemn
+words of the ritual of the English Church, never before spoken in that
+primeval forest, must have awakened mysterious vibrations which linger
+yet and give to Roanoak Island that atmosphere of perpetual repose
+which envelops it. There must have come to those who witnessed the
+scene that holy Sabbath-Day, just as it comes now to those who view it
+from afar, a deep realization that the God of the English and the Great
+Spirit of the Indian are one and the same, then, now, and evermore. The
+One God to whom in baptism Virginia Dare was brought and in whose name
+Manteo the savage was signed with the cross and given the promise of
+salvation, and who remains the God of the millions of English-speaking
+people who now worship in the land which was then and there dedicated
+to the service of Christ.
+
+The mist of oblivion fades before the light of Truth, and Virginia Dare
+will be a shining jewel in the Chaplet of Memories which some day
+Christian America will place upon the tomb of the Past.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+A familiar knowledge of the history of one's own country increases
+patriotism and stimulates valor. For this reason the study of written
+records called history should be supplemented by research into myths,
+folk-lore, and legends. While the value of history lies ever in its
+truth, it must yet bear the ideals of the people who participated in
+the events narrated. Tradition was the mother of all history, and was
+necessarily robed in the superstitions of the era of which the
+tradition tells. History writers, jealously guarding the truth, have
+striven to banish all traditions which seemed colored by fancy or even
+freighted with a moral lesson. These exiled traditions, bearing the
+seed-germs of truth, cannot die, but, like wandering spirits, float
+down the centuries enveloped in the mists of superstition, until
+finally, embodied in romance or song, they assume a permanent form
+called legend and become the heritage of a people. Legends are the
+satellites of history because they have their origin in the same
+events, and the history of all countries is interspersed with them.
+
+The legend of The White Doe is probably the oldest and possibly the
+least known of all the legends which relate to the history of the
+United States. It is a genuine American legend, and the facts from
+which it had its origin form the first chapter in the history of
+English colonization in North America. Those facts are found in the
+repeated attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh to establish an English colony
+in the New World. The Spaniards were in Florida, the French were in
+Nova Scotia, but England had gained no possessions in North America
+when Raleigh began his efforts. This fact assumes more importance when
+we remember that civilization has made the greatest progress in those
+parts of America where the English became dominant. In South America,
+dominated by the Spaniards, civilization has made no strides, while in
+the United States a new nation has arisen whose ultimate destiny none
+may limit or foretell. As the gates of a new century open and disclose
+almost unlimited fields for human progress, this new nation, with an
+enthusiasm and courage born of success, has taken her place to lead in
+the eternal forward search for better opportunities and higher life
+for the human race. All this grand destiny, all this ripening
+opportunity, like a harvest from a few seeds, is traced back, event
+after event, to the early struggles of those who braved the dangers of
+sea and forest in the attempts to colonize America. Those pioneer
+efforts, so generously promoted by Sir Walter Raleigh, though only
+partially successful, were the stepping-stones which later led to the
+better-known settlement of Jamestown, in Virginia. A brief _résumé_ of
+those stepping-stones will make them familiar to all.
+
+In 1584 Queen Elizabeth made a grant to Raleigh for all the land from
+Nova Scotia to Florida, which was called Virginia, in honor of the
+Virgin Queen, as Elizabeth was called.
+
+The first expedition sent out under this grant was in the same year,
+1584, and was entirely at the expense of Sir Walter Raleigh, as were
+all of the expeditions up to 1590. It was solely for the purpose of
+exploration, and was under the command of Amadas and Barlowe, who,
+after coasting along the Atlantic shores, entered Pamlico Sound and
+landed on the island of Roanoak, on the coast of the present State of
+North Carolina. They made the acquaintance of the tribes there
+resident, explored the country on the coast, and returned to England to
+bear enthusiastic testimony to the delightsomeness of the country. They
+took with them back to England two native Indian chiefs, Manteo and
+Wanchese, who returned to America on a subsequent voyage, as the
+official records tell.
+
+The following year, 1585, a colony of one hundred and seven men landed
+on this same island of Roanoak. They came organized to occupy and
+possess the land granted to Raleigh, and to secure such benefits
+therefrom as in those days were deemed valuable. They remained one
+year, exploring the country and trying to establish relations with the
+Indians. They built houses, planted crops, and looked forward to the
+arrival of more men and food, which had been promised from England. But
+no ships came, provisions grew scarce, and before the crops they had
+planted were mature enough to harvest, Sir Francis Drake, the great
+sea-rover of that day, appeared off the island with a fleet of vessels.
+
+Knowing the dangers of that coast, he did not attempt to come to the
+island, but sent in to learn of the welfare of the colony, and offered
+to supply their immediate needs. They asked, among other things, that
+their sick and weak men be taken back to England, that food for those
+who remained be given them, and for a vessel in which they might return
+home if they so desired, all of which Drake granted. But a dreadful
+storm arose, which lasted three days and drove the promised vessel out
+to sea, with a goodly number of the colonists and the promised food on
+board. Seeing thus a part of their number and their food gone, the
+remaining colonists became homesick and panic-stricken and begged Drake
+to take them _all_ to England, which he did. Thus ended the first
+attempt at English colonization in North America.
+
+Fifteen days after their departure Sir Richard Grenville arrived with
+three vessels, bringing the promised supplies, but found the men gone.
+Wishing to hold the country for England until another colony could
+arrive, he left fifteen men on the island with provisions for two
+years, and he returned to England. Those fifteen men are supposed to
+have been murdered and captured by the Indians, as the next colony
+found only some bones, a ruined fort, and empty houses in which deer
+were feeding.
+
+The leaving of those fifteen men is considered the second attempt at
+colonization, and is recognized as a failure. But all success is built
+only by persistent repetition of effort, and so, in 1587, another
+colony came from England to this same island of Roanoak. Among those
+colonists were seventeen women and nine children, thus proving the
+intention of making permanent homes, and the hope of establishing
+family ties which should for all time unite England and North America.
+A few days after the arrival of this colony at Roanoak, Virginia Dare
+was born,--she being the first child born of English parents on the
+soil of North America,--and because she was the first child born in
+Virginia she was called Virginia. Her mother, Eleanor Dare, was the
+daughter of John White, the governor of the colony, and the wife of one
+of the assistant governors.
+
+The Sunday following her birth she was baptized, this being another
+fact of official record.
+
+By Sir Walter Raleigh's command the rite of baptism had been
+administered, a few days earlier, to Manteo, an Indian chief, who had
+visited England with a returning expedition, as previously mentioned.
+This baptism of the adult Indian and of the white infant were the first
+Christian sacraments administered in North America, and are worthy of
+commemoration.
+
+The colonists soon found that to make possible and permanent their home
+in a new land many things were needed more than they had provided. So
+at their urgent request their leader, Governor White, grandfather of
+Virginia Dare, consented to return to England to secure the needed
+supplies, with which he was to return to them the following year. When
+White reached England he found war going on with Spain, and England
+threatened with an invasion by the famous Spanish Armada. His queen
+needed and demanded his services, and not until 1590--three years
+later--did he succeed in returning to America. When at last he came the
+colonists had disappeared, and the only clue to their fate was the word
+"Croatoan," which he found carved on a tree; it having been agreed
+between them that if they changed their place of abode in his absence
+they would carve on a tree the name of the place to which they had
+gone.
+
+The arrival of those colonists, the birth and baptism of Virginia Dare,
+the return of White to England, the disappearance of the colony, and
+the finding of the word Croatoan, these facts form the record of that
+colony, the disappearance of which is a mystery which history has not
+solved.
+
+But tradition illumines many periods of the past which history leaves
+in darkness, and tradition tells how this colony found among friendly
+Indians a refuge from the dangers of Roanoak Island, and how this
+infant grew into fair maidenhood, and was changed by the sorcery of a
+rejected lover into _a white doe_, which roamed the lonely island and
+bore a charmed life, and how finally true love triumphed over magic and
+restored her to human form,--only to result in the death of the maiden
+from a silver arrow shot by a cruel chieftain.
+
+This tradition of a white doe and a silver arrow has survived through
+three centuries, and not only lingers where the events occurred, but
+some portions of it are found wherever in our land forests abound and
+deer abide. From Maine to Florida lumbermen are everywhere familiar
+with an old superstition that to see a white doe is an evil omen. In
+some localities lumbermen will quit work if a white deer is seen. That
+such a creature as a white deer really exists is demonstrated by their
+capture and exhibition in menageries, and to-day the rude hunters of
+the Alleghany Mountains believe that only a silver arrow will kill a
+white deer.
+
+The disappearance of this colony has been truly called "the tragedy of
+American colonization," and around it has hung a pathetic interest
+which ever leads to renewed investigation, in the hope of solving the
+mystery. From recent search into the subject by students of history a
+chain of evidence has been woven from which it has come to be believed
+that the lost colony, hopeless of succor from England, and deprived of
+all other human associations, became a part of a tribe of friendly
+Croatoan Indians, shared their wanderings, and intermarried with them,
+and that their descendants are to be found to-day among the Croatoan
+Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina.
+
+(Those who desire to investigate this supposed solution of the mystery
+can easily secure the facts and the conclusions formed by those who
+have made a careful study of the subject.)
+
+Of course, it can never be known _certainly_ whether Virginia Dare was
+or was not of that number, but the full tradition of her life among the
+Indians is embodied in the legend of The White Doe.
+
+Much has been written about the Indian princess Pocahontas, and much
+sentiment has clustered around her association with the Jamestown
+colony, while few have given thought to the young English girl whose
+birth, baptism, and mysterious disappearance link her forever with the
+earlier tragedies of the same era of history. It seems a strange
+coincidence that the Indian maiden Pocahontas, friend and companion of
+the _White_ Man, having adopted _his_ people as her own, should sleep
+in death on English soil, while the English maiden, Virginia Dare,
+friend and companion of the _Red_ Man, having adopted his people as
+_her_ own, should sleep in death on American soil,--the two maidens
+thus exchanging nationality, and linking in life and in death the two
+countries whose destinies seem most naturally to intermingle.
+
+The scattered fragments of this legend have been carefully collected
+and woven into symmetry for preservation. Notes from authentic sources
+have been appended for the benefit of searchers into the historical
+basis of the poem, which is offered to the public with the hope that it
+may increase interest in the early history of our home land and
+strengthen the tie which binds England and the United States.
+
+                                          SALLIE SOUTHALL COTTEN.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                            PAGE
+
+FORGOTTEN FACTS AND FANCIES OF AMERICAN HISTORY                i
+
+PREFACE                                                        5
+
+PROLOGUE                                                      19
+
+THE SEEDS OF TRUTH                                            23
+
+
+THE LEGEND OF THE WHITE DOE
+
+  I.--THE REFUGEES                                            31
+
+ II.--THE PALE-FACE MAIDEN                                    42
+
+III.--SAVAGE SORCERY                                          46
+
+ IV.--THE COUNTER-CHARM                                       55
+
+  V.--THE HUNT                                                63
+
+ VI.--THE SILVER ARROW                                        72
+
+APPENDIX                                                      81
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+_1 "While within its bright'ning dimness,
+    With the misty halo 'round her,
+    Stood a beautiful white maiden"_                 FRONTISPIECE
+
+_2 A Scuppernong Vineyard, Roanoak Island_                    _x_
+
+_3 Old "Mother" Scuppernong Vine_                           _xii_
+
+_4 Among the Scuppernongs.--A Modern Vineyard_              _xiv_
+
+_5 A "Virginia Dare" Vineyard_                              _xvi_
+
+_6 The Arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia_                _23_
+
+_7 "The Fierce, Brawny Red Man is King of the Wold"_         _24_
+
+_8 The Land-of-Wind-and-Water_                               _32_
+
+_9 Man-te-o, a Chiefe Lorde of Roanoak_                      _34_
+
+_10 "Then a New Canoe he fashioned"_                         _52_
+
+_11 The Magician of Po-mou-ik_                               _58_
+
+Frontispiece from an original drawing by May Louise
+Barrett.
+
+Maps and remaining illustrations reproduced from
+Theodore de Bry's edition of "The True Pictures and
+Fashions of the People in that Parte of America now
+called Virginia," 1590.
+
+
+
+
+PROLOGUE
+
+
+In the tomb of vanished ages sleep th' ungarnered truths of Time,
+Where the pall of silence covers deeds of honor and of crime;
+Deeds of sacrifice and danger, which the careless earth forgets,
+There, in ever-deep'ning shadows, lie embalmed in mute regrets.
+Would-be-gleaners of the Present vainly grope amid this gloom;
+Flowers of Truth to be immortal must be gathered while they bloom,
+Else they pass into the Silence, man's neglect their only blight,
+And the Gleaner of the Ages stores them far from human sight.
+Yet a perfume, sweet and subtle, lingers where each flower grew,
+Rising from the shattered petals, bathed and freshened by the dew;
+And this perfume, in the twilight, forms a mist beneath the skies,
+Out of which, like airy phantoms, legends and traditions rise;
+For the Seeds of Truth are buried in a legend's inmost heart,
+To transplant them in the sunlight justifies the poet's art.
+
+[Illustration: The arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia]
+
+
+
+
+THE SEEDS OF TRUTH
+
+ROANOAK, 1587
+
+
+Shimmering waters, aweary of tossing,
+Hopeful of rest, ripple on to the shore;
+Dimpling with light, as they waver and quiver,
+Echoing faintly the ocean's wild roar.
+Locked in the arms of the tremulous waters
+Nestles an island, with beauty abloom,
+Where the warm kiss of an amorous summer
+Fills all the air with a languid perfume.
+Windward, the roar of the turbulent breakers
+Warns of the dangers of rock and of reef;
+Burdened with mem'ries of sorrowful shipwreck,
+They break on the sands in torrents of grief.
+Leeward, the forest, grown giant in greenness,
+Shelters a land where a fervid sun shines;
+Wild with the beauty of riotous nature,
+Thick with the tangles of fruit-laden vines.[A]
+From fragrant clusters, grown purple with ripeness,
+Rare, spicy odors float out to the sea,[B]
+Where the gray gulls flit with restless endeavor,
+Skimming the waves in their frolicsome glee.
+
+Out from the shore stalks the stately white heron,
+Seeking his food from the deep without fear,
+Gracefully waving wide wings as he rises
+When the canoe of the Indian draws near.
+Through reedy brake and the tangled sea-grasses
+Wander the stag and the timid-eyed doe[C]
+Down to the water's edge, watchful and wary
+For arrows that fly from the red hunter's bow.
+Fearless Red Hunter! his birthright the forest,
+Lithe as the antelope, joyous and free.
+Trusting his bow for his food and his freedom,
+Wresting a tribute from forest and sea,
+No chilling forecast of doom in the future
+Daunts his brave spirit, by freedom made bold.
+Far o'er the wildwood he roams at his pleasure,
+The fierce, brawny Red Man is king of the wold.
+
+[Illustration: "The fierce, brawny Red Man is king of the wold"]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Lo! in the offing the white sails are gleaming,
+Ships from afar to the land drawing nigh;
+Laden with men, strong and brave to meet danger,
+Stalwart of form, fair of skin, blue of eye.
+Boldly they land where the white man is alien;
+Women are with them, with hearts true and brave;
+Sadly they stand where their countrymen perished,[D]
+Seeking a home where _they_ found but a grave.
+
+Friendly red hunters greet them with kindness,
+Tell the sad tale how their countrymen died,[E]
+Beg for a token of friendship and safety,[F]
+Promise in love and in peace to abide.
+Manteo's heart glows with friendly remembrance,
+He greets them as brothers and offers good cheer;
+No thrill of welcome is felt by Wanchese,[G]
+His heart is bitter with malice and fear.
+Envying men his superiors in wisdom,
+Fearing a race his superiors in skill;
+Sullen and silent he watches the strangers,
+Whom from the first he determines to kill.
+
+Then the sign of the Cross, on the brow of the Indian,[H]
+Seals to the savage the promise of life;
+Sweet symbol of sacrifice, emblem of duty,
+Standard of Peace, though borne amidst strife:
+Draped with the sombre, stained banner of Conquest,
+Dark with the guilt of man's murder and greed,
+Yet bright with God's message of love and forgiveness
+Unto a universe welded to creed.
+
+Gently the morning breeze tosses the tree-tops,
+Low ebbs the tide on the outlying sand;
+When a tiny white babe opens eyes to the sunlight,[I]
+Heaven's sweet pledge for the weal of the land.
+Babe of the Wilderness! tenderly cherished!
+Signed with the Cross on the next Sabbath Day;
+Brave English Mother! through danger and sorrow,
+For a nation of Christians thou leadest the way.
+
+Back to the home-land, across the deep water,
+Goes the wise leader, their needs to abate;[J]
+Leaving with sorrow the babe and its mother
+In a strange land as a hostage to Fate.
+Many long months pass in busy home-making,
+Sweet English customs prevail on the isle;
+Anxious eyes watch for the ship in the offing,
+Saddened hearts droop, but the lips bravely smile.
+
+Gone are the sweet dreamy days of the summer,
+In from the ocean the winter winds shriek;
+Dangers encompass and enemies threaten,
+Mother and child other refuge must seek.
+Mother and child, as in Bethlehem story,
+Flee from the hate of their blood-thirsty foes;
+Hopeless of help from their own land and people,
+They seek friendly tribes to find rest from their woes.
+
+To the fair borders of Croatoan Island,
+Over the night-covered waters they flee;
+Seeking for safety with Manteo's people,
+Leaving the word "Croatoan" on a tree.[K]
+Name of the refuge in which they sought shelter,
+Only the name of a tribe, nothing more;[L]
+Sign whereby those who would seek them might follow
+To their new home on the Croatoan's shore.
+
+Why did they leave the rude fort they had builded?
+Why did they seek far away a new home?
+O innocent babe! Roanoak's lost nestling!
+How shall we learn where thy footsteps did roam?
+'Mid the rude tribes of the primeval forest,
+Bearing the signet of Christ on thy brow,
+Wert thou the teacher and guide of the savage?
+Who, of thy mission, can aught tell us now?
+Through the dim ages comes only the perfume,
+Left where the flowers of Truth fell to earth;
+With ne'er a gleaner to treasure the blossoms,
+Save the sweet petals of baptism and birth.
+Vainly we seek on Time's shore for thy footprints,
+Hid in a mist of pathos is thy fate;
+Yet of a life under savage enchantment
+Quaint Indian legends do strangely relate.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote A: See Appendix, Note _a_.]
+
+[Footnote B: See Appendix, Note _b_.]
+
+[Footnote C: See Appendix, Note _c_.]
+
+[Footnote D: See Appendix, Note _d_.]
+
+[Footnote E: See Appendix, Note _e_.]
+
+[Footnote F: See Appendix, Note _e_.]
+
+[Footnote G: Pronounced Wan-chess-e.]
+
+[Footnote H: See Appendix, Note _f_.]
+
+[Footnote I: See Appendix, Note _g_.]
+
+[Footnote J: See Appendix, Note _h_.]
+
+[Footnote K: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote L: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+
+
+
+THE LEGEND OF THE WHITE DOE
+
+
+
+
+I
+
+THE REFUGEES
+
+
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water,
+Loud the sea bemoaned its sameness;
+Dashing shoreward with impatience
+To explore the landward mysteries.
+On the sand the waves spread boldly,
+Vainly striving to reach higher;
+Then abashed by vain ambition,
+Glided to their ordained duty.
+There the pine-tree, tall and stately,
+Whispered low the ocean's murmur;
+Strove to soothe the restless waters
+With its lullaby of sighing.
+There the tall and dank sea-grasses,
+From the storm-tide gathered secrets
+Of the caverns filled with treasures,
+Milky pearls and tinted coral,
+Stores of amber and of jacinth,
+In the caves festooned with sea-weed,
+Where the Sea-King held his revels
+And the Naiads danced in beauty.
+In this Land-of-Wind-and-Water,
+Dowered with the sunshine's splendor,
+Juicy grapes grew in profusion,
+Draping all the trees with greenness,
+And the maize grew hard and yellow,
+With the sunshine in its kernels.
+Through the forest roamed the black bear,
+And the red deer boldly herded;
+Through the air flew birds of flavor,
+And the sea was full of fishes,
+Till the Red Man knew no hunger,
+And his wigwam hung with trophies.
+
+[Illustration: The Land-of-Wind-and-Water]
+
+There brave Man-te-o, the Faithful,
+Ruled the Cro-a-to-ans with firmness,
+Dwelt in peace beside the waters,
+Smoked his pipe beneath the pine-tree,
+Gazed with pride upon his bear-skins
+Which hung ready for the winter.
+Told his people all the marvels
+Of the Land-of-the-Pale-Faces;
+Of the ships with wings like sea-birds
+Wherein he had crossed the water;[M]
+Of the Pale-Face Weroanza[N]
+Whom he saw in her own country;
+Of her robes of silken texture,
+Of her wisdom and her power;
+Told them of her warlike people
+And their ships which breathed the lightning.
+How he pledged with them a friendship,
+Hoping they would come to teach him
+How to make his people mighty,
+How to make them strong in battle
+So the other tribes would fear them.
+And the dream of future greatness
+Filled the Cro-a-to-ans with courage;
+And their hearts grew warm and friendly
+To the race of white-faced strangers.
+
+When bold white men came among them,
+To the isle of Ro-a-no-ak,
+Man-te-o, the friendly Weroance,
+Faithful proved to all his pledges.
+Smoked with them the pipe of friendship,
+Took their God to be his Father;
+Took upon his swarthy forehead
+Their strange emblem of salvation,[O]
+Emblem of the One Great Spirit,
+Father of all tribes and nations.
+Man-te-o, the friend and brother,
+Bade them fear the false Wan-ches-e,
+And the Weroance Win-gin-a,
+Whose hearts burned with bitter hatred
+For the men they feared in combat,
+For the strangers who defied them.
+
+[Illustration: Man-te-o, a chiefe lorde of Roanoak]
+
+When the Pale-Face, weak and hungry,
+Feeble from continued labor,
+Shivered in the blasts of winter
+Which blew cold across the water,
+Then Wan-ches-e planned their ruin,
+With Win-gin-a sought to slay them.
+
+To the isle of Ro-a-no-ak,
+Where the Pale-Face slept unguarded,
+Sped the swift canoes of Red Men,
+Gliding through the silent shadows.
+As the sky grew red with dawning,[P]
+While they dreamed of home and kindred,
+Suddenly with whoop of murder
+Wily Indians swarmed around them.
+
+Skill of Pale-Face, craft of Red Man,
+Met in fierce, determined battle;
+While within the Fort called Ralegh
+Many arrows fell, like raindrops.
+Arrows tipped with serpent's poison,
+Arrows tipped with blazing rosin,
+Winged with savage thirst for murder,
+Aimed with cruel skill to torture.
+Threatened by the blazing roof-tree
+Then the Pale-Face crouched in terror;
+Saw the folly of resistance,
+Feared his doom, and fled for safety.
+
+Man-te-o, alert for danger,
+From afar saw signs of conflict;
+Saw the waves of smoke ascending
+Heavenward, like prayers for rescue.
+Swift, with boats and trusty warriors,
+Crossed he then to Ro-a-no-ak;
+Strong to help his Pale-Face brothers,
+Faithful to his friendly pledges.
+
+As the daylight slowly faded,
+Hopeless of the bloody struggle,
+Stealthily the Pale-Face warriors
+Fled with Man-te-o's brave people.
+Left they then the Fort called Ralegh,
+Left the dead within its stockade;
+Sought another island refuge,
+Hoping there to rest in safety.
+
+Man-te-o sought for the mother,[Q]
+She with babe there born and nurtured
+'Neath the shadow of disaster,
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water.
+"Come," said he, "the darkness falleth,
+All your people must flee henceward;
+Wan-ches-e will show no mercy,
+You must not become his captive.
+Take the papoose from thy bosom,
+Call the white chief whom thou lovest,
+Haste with me upon the flood-tide
+To my wigwam on Wo-ko-kon."
+
+Noiseless, she amid the conflict
+Sought her heart's mate to flee with her;
+Useless all the strife and courage,
+Useless all the rude home-making;
+Shrine for worship, fort for safety,
+Hope of future peace and plenty,
+All were vain; yet life we cherish,
+Far above all boons we hold it:
+So she hastened on her mission
+For the life of self and loved ones.
+
+As they neared the island border,
+Pale-Face husband, child, and mother,
+Man-te-o in silence leading,
+Every sense alive to danger,
+Suddenly the Pale-Face father
+Thought him of the parting caution
+Given by their absent leader:
+If they fled in search of safety
+On a tree to leave a token,
+Whereby he might surely find them,
+In the land which gave them shelter,
+When he came again to seek them.[R]
+
+By his side a sturdy live-oak
+Spread its green, protecting branches;
+Quick he strove to carve the token
+Which should speak to all who followed.
+C. R. O., in bold, plain letters[S]
+Cut he in the tree's firm body,
+When a random, poisoned arrow
+Pierced his heart, and he fell lifeless.
+
+With a smothered cry of horror,
+In an agony of sorrow,
+She would fain have lingered near him,
+But that Man-te-o urged onward.
+If discovered, flight was futile,
+Weakness now meant worse disaster;
+She must save her helpless baby
+Though her heart be rent with anguish.
+
+Frantic with love's desolation,
+Strong with thoughts of home and father,
+With a woman's wondrous calmness
+When great peril calls for action,
+Safe she placed the sleeping infant
+'Cross the brawny arms of Man-te-o,
+While with knife drawn from his girdle
+Carved she on another live-oak
+Plain, the one word "CROATOAN"[T]
+As a sign to all her people.
+Trusting all to savage friendship,
+Cutting hope with every letter,
+Praying God to guide her father
+To the haven she was seeking.
+
+Trust is woman's strongest bulwark,
+All true manhood yields unto it.
+As her sad eyes turned upon him
+Man-te-o was moved with pity
+For the brave and tender woman,
+Friendless in the land without him.
+
+On the brow of Pale-Face baby
+First he made the Holy Cross-Sign;
+Then upon the sad-eyed mother
+Traced the sign her people taught him;
+Then again the sacred symbol
+Outlined on his own dark forehead;
+And with open hand uplifted
+Sealed his promise of protection;
+Linking thus his pledge of safety
+With her faith in Unseen Power.
+
+Mute with grief, she trusted in him;
+In his boat they crossed the water,
+While the night fell like a mantle
+Spread in mercy to help save them.
+
+When in Cro-a-to-an they landed,
+There they found the few survivors
+Of that day of doom to many,
+Glad once more to greet each other.
+Man-te-o within his wigwam
+From the cold wind gave them shelter,
+Shared with them his furry bear-skins,
+Made them warm, and warmth gave courage
+To meet life's relentless duties.
+
+Then he summoned all the people,
+Called the old men and the young men,
+Bade the squaws to come and listen,
+Showed the papoose to the women.
+They gazed on its tender whiteness,
+Stroked the mother's flaxen tresses;
+"'Tis a snow-papoose" they whispered,
+"It will melt when comes the summer."
+
+Man-te-o said to the warriors:
+"Ye all know these Pale-Face people
+Whom Wan-ches-e sought to murder,
+They have often made us welcome.
+Brave their hearts, but few are living,
+If left friendless these will perish;
+We have store of corn and venison,
+They are hungry, let us feed them;
+They have lightning for their arrows,
+Let them teach us how to shoot it.
+They with us shall search the forest,
+And our game shall be abundant;
+Let them teach us their strange wisdom
+And become with us one people."
+
+And the old men, grave in counsel,
+And the young men, mute with deference,
+While the uppowoc[U] was burning,
+Pondered on his words thus spoken,
+And to Man-te-o gave answer:
+"All your words are full of wisdom;
+We will share with them our venison,
+They shall be as our own people."
+
+From the isle of Ro-a-no-ak
+Thus the Pale-Face fled for succor,
+Thus in Cro-a-to-an's fair borders
+Found a home with friendly Red Men.
+Nevermore to see white faces,
+Nevermore to see their home-land,
+Yet to all the future ages
+Sending proof of honest daring;
+Forging thus a link of effort
+In the chain of human progress.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote M: See Appendix, Note _l_.]
+
+[Footnote N: Queen Elizabeth.]
+
+[Footnote O: See Appendix, Note _f_.]
+
+[Footnote P: See Appendix, Note _m_.]
+
+[Footnote Q: Eleanor Dare.]
+
+[Footnote R: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote S: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote T: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote U: Tobacco.]
+
+
+
+
+II
+
+THE PALE-FACE MAIDEN
+
+
+Nature feels no throb of pity,
+Makes no pause for human heartbreak;
+Though with agony we quiver,
+She gives forth no sign of feeling.
+Waxed and waned the moon, in season,
+Ebbed and flowed the tides obedient;
+Summers filled the land with plenty,
+Winters chilled the summers' ardor.
+No winged ships gleamed in the offing;
+No Pale-Faces sought their kindred;
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water
+Roamed the Red Man unmolested.
+
+While the babe of Ro-a-no-ak
+Grew in strength and wondrous beauty;
+Like a flower of the wildwood,
+Bloomed beside the Indian maidens.
+And Wi-no-na Skâ[V] they called her,
+She of all the maidens fairest.
+In the tangles of her tresses
+Sunbeams lingered, pale and yellow;
+In her eyes the limpid blueness
+Of the noonday sky was mirrored.
+And the squaws of darksome features
+Smiled upon her fair young beauty;
+Felt their woman hearts within them
+Warming to the Pale-Face maiden.
+And the braves, who scorned all weakness,
+Listened to her artless prattle,
+While their savage natures softened,
+Of the change themselves unconscious.
+
+Like the light of summer morning
+Beaming on a world in slumber
+Was the face of young Wi-no-na
+To the Cro-a-to-ans who loved her.
+She, whose mind bore in its dawning
+Impress of developed races,
+To the rude, untutored savage
+Seemed divinely 'dowed with reason.
+She, the heir of civilization,
+They, the slaves of superstition,
+Gave to her a silent rev'rence,
+Growing better with such giving.
+Oft she told them that the Cross-Sign,
+Made by Man-te-o before them
+When he talked to his own nation,
+Was the symbol of a Spirit
+Great, and good, and wise, and loving;
+He who kept the maize-fields fruitful,
+He who filled the sea with fishes,
+He who made the sun to warm them
+And sent game to feed His children.
+
+If, when in their games or councils,
+They grew quarrelsome and angry,
+Suddenly among them standing
+Was a maiden like the sunrise,
+Making with her taper finger
+This strange sign which they respected;
+And without a word of pleading
+Strife and wrath would no more vex them,
+While the influence of her presence
+Lingered 'round them like enchantment.
+
+Thus the babe of Ro-a-no-ak
+Grew to be the joy and teacher
+Of a tribe of native heathen
+In the land which gave her shelter.
+And the tide of her affections
+Flowed to those who gave her friendship;
+Whom alone she knew as human,
+Whom to her became as kindred.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote V: Literally, "first-born white daughter."]
+
+
+
+
+III
+
+SAVAGE SORCERY
+
+
+Man-to-ac, the Mighty Father,
+When he filled the earth with blessings,
+Deep within the heart of Woman
+Hid the burning Need-of-Loving;
+Which through her should warm the ages
+With a flame of mutual feeling,
+Throbbing through her sons and daughters
+With a force beyond their power.
+And this law of human loving,
+Changeless through unending changes,
+Fills each living heart with yearning
+For another heart to love it;
+And against this ceaseless craving
+Creed, nor clime, nor color standeth;
+Heart to heart all nature crieth
+That the earth may thrill with gladness.
+
+So the young braves of the nation,
+Thrilled with love for fair Wi-no-na,
+Made rude ornaments to please her,
+Laid the red deer at her wigwam.
+Brought her skins of furry rabbits
+Soft and white as her own skin was;
+Robbed the black bear and the otter
+That her bed might soft and warm be.
+And the children of the forest
+Were uplifted by such loving
+Of a higher type of being,
+Who yet throbbed with human instincts.
+
+Brave O-kis-ko loved the maiden
+With a love which made him noble;
+With the love that self-forgetting
+Fills the soul with higher impulse.
+As the sun with constant fervor,
+Heat and light to earth bestowing,
+Seeks for no return of blessing,
+Feels no loss for all his giving,
+So O-kis-ko loved Wi-no-na,
+Gave her all his heart's rude homage,
+Felt no loss for all his giving,
+Loved her for the joy of loving.
+Scorned he all fatigue and danger
+Which would bring her food or pleasure;
+And each day brought proof of fealty,
+For his deeds were more than language.
+
+For her sake he tried to fasten
+To his rude canoe white pinions
+Like the winged ships of the white man,
+That with her he might sail boldly
+Out towards the rosy sunrise,
+Seeking for her lost grandsire[W]
+For whose coming her heart saddened.
+Though his red companions mocked him,
+His endeavor pleased the maiden,
+And her eyes beamed kindly on him,
+Though no passion stirred her pulses.
+For sweet maiden hopes and fancies
+Filled her life with happy dreaming
+Ere her woman's heart awakened
+To O-kis-ko's patient waiting.
+Waiting for her eyes to brighten
+'Neath the ardor of his glances;
+Waiting for her soul to quicken
+With the answer to his longing;
+Finding sweet content in silence,
+Glad each day to see and serve her.
+
+Now old Chi-co, the Magician,
+Also loved the fair Wi-no-na,
+All his youth to him returning
+As he gazed upon her beauty.
+In his wigwam pelt of gray wolf,
+Antlers of the deer and bison,
+Hung to prove his deeds of valor;
+And he wooed the gentle maiden
+With his cunning tales of prowess.
+
+She would not rebuke his boasting,
+Fearful lest her words offend him;
+For her nature kind and loving
+Could not scorn the vaunting Chi-co.
+
+When he walked among the maidens,
+Gay with paint and decked with feathers,
+She would look on him with kindness
+That the others might not scoff him;
+She would smile upon his weakness,
+Though she did not wish to wed him.
+
+Chi-co's love was fierce as fire
+Which from flame yields only ashes;
+Which gives not for joy of giving,
+But demands unceasing tribute,
+More and more to feed its craving.
+He grew eager and impatient,
+He would share with none her favor;
+All for him her eyes must brighten,
+Else his frown would blight her pleasure.
+
+When the young men played or wrestled,
+If O-kis-ko came out victor;
+Or returning with the hunters
+He it was who bore the stag home;
+If with eyes abrim with pleasure
+Sweet Wi-no-na smiled upon him,
+Or with timid maiden shyness
+Drooped her eyes beneath his glances,
+Then old Chi-co's heart would wither
+With the fire of jealous fury,
+Till at length in bitter anger
+He determined none should win her,
+As from him she turned in coldness.
+
+Wrapped in silence grim and sullen,
+Much he wandered near the water;
+With his soul he took dark counsel,
+Seeking for devices cruel
+For the torture of his rival
+And destruction of the maiden.
+
+Though he rarely used his power,
+Chi-co was a great magician.
+He knew all the spells of starlight
+And the link 'tween moon and water;
+Knew the language of lost spirits
+And the secret of their power;
+Knew the magic words and symbols
+Whereby man may conquer nature.
+
+Long he plotted,--much he brooded,
+While he gathered from the water
+Mussel-pearls all streaked and piedèd,[X]
+All with rays like purple halos.
+
+Such pearls are the souls of Naiads
+Who have disobeyed the Sea-King,
+And in mussel-shells are prisoned
+For this taint of human frailty.
+When by man released from durance
+These souls, grateful for their freedom,
+Are his slaves, and ever render
+Good or evil at his bidding.
+
+Chi-co steeped each one he gathered
+In a bath of mystic brewing;
+Told each purple, piedèd pearl-drop
+What the evil was he plotted.
+Never once his purpose wavered,
+Never once his fury lessened;
+Nursing vengeance as a guerdon
+While the mussel-pearls he polished.
+
+Then a new canoe he fashioned,
+Safe, and strong, and deep he made it;[Y]
+And then sought to work his magic
+On the innocent Wi-no-na;
+Asked the maiden to go with him
+In his boat across the water.
+"Come," said he, "to Ro-a-no-ak,
+Where the waves are white with blossoms,
+Where the grapes hang ripe in clusters,
+Come with me and drink their juices."
+
+[Illustration: "Then a new canoe he fashioned"]
+
+And the innocent Wi-no-na
+Listened to his artful pleading;
+Went with him in search of pleasure,
+Glad to show him friendly feeling.
+
+While with idle stroke they floated
+To the fragrant lily-blossoms,
+He a string of pearls gave to her,
+Smooth and polished, pied and purple.
+'Round her snowy neck she placed them
+With no thought of harm or cunning;
+And with simple, maiden speeches
+Filled the time as they sped onward.
+
+To each pearl had Chi-co chanted,
+Each had bathed in mystic water,
+Each held fast the same weird power,
+Till the time grew ripe for evil.
+On the waves they could not harm her,
+There the Sea-King ruled them ever;
+But when on the shore she landed
+They would work their evil mission.
+
+On the shore of Ro-a-no-ak
+Chi-co sent his boat with vigor.
+Lithe and happy she sprang shoreward,
+When,--from where her foot first lightly
+Pressed the sand with human imprint,--
+On--away--towards the thicket,
+Sprang _a White Doe_, fleet and graceful.
+
+His revenge thus wrought in safety,
+Drifting seaward Chi-co chanted:
+"Go, White Doe, hide in the forest,
+Feed upon the sweet wild-grasses;
+No winged arrow e'er shall harm you,
+No Red Hunter e'er shall win you;
+Roam forever, fleet and fearless,
+Living free and yet in fetters."
+
+O fair maiden! born and nurtured
+'Neath the shadow of disaster!
+Isle of Fate was Ro-a-no-ak,
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water.
+Nevermore to fill with gladness
+The sad heart of stricken mother;
+Nevermore to hear the wooing
+Of the brave and true O-kis-ko.
+Gone thy charm of youthful beauty,
+Gone thy sway o'er savage natures;
+Doomed to flee before the hunter,
+Doomed to roam the lonely island,
+Doomed to bondage e'en in freedom.
+Is the seal of doom eternal?
+Hath the mussel-pearl all power?
+Cannot _love_ thy fetters loosen?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote W: Governor White, of the lost colony.]
+
+[Footnote X: See Appendix, Note _n_.]
+
+[Footnote Y: See Appendix, Note _o_.]
+
+
+
+
+IV
+
+THE COUNTER-CHARM
+
+
+Man-te-o and all his warriors
+Long and far sought for Wi-no-na;
+Sought to find the sky-eyed maiden
+Sent by Man-to-ac, the Mighty,
+To the Cro-a-to-ans to bless them,
+And to make them wise and happy.
+As a being more than mortal,
+As a deity they held her;
+And when no more seen among them
+Lamentations filled the island.
+Through Wo-ko-kon's sandy stretches,
+Through the bog-lands of Po-mou-ik,
+Even unto Das-a-mon-que-peu,
+Hunted they the missing maiden;
+If perchance some other nation,
+Envious of their peace and plenty,
+Had the maiden boldly captured,
+For themselves to win her power.
+Louder grew their lamentations
+When they found no trail to follow;
+Wilder grew their threats of vengeance
+'Gainst the tribe which held her captive.
+
+While they wailed the Pale-Face Mother,
+She who once was brave for love's sake,
+Weak from hardships new and wearing,
+Utterly bereft of kindred,
+Her heart's comfort thus torn from her,
+Died beneath her weight of sorrow.
+And a pity, soft and human,
+Though he knew no name to call it,
+Thrilled the Red Man as he laid her
+'Neath the forest leaves to slumber.
+
+But the wary, wily Chi-co
+Told his secret unto no one,
+While he listened to the stories,
+Strange and true, told by the hunters
+Of a fleet and graceful White Doe
+On the banks of Ro-a-no-ak.
+And the hunters said, no arrow
+Howsoever aimed could reach her;
+Said the deer herd round her gathered,
+And where e'er she led they followed.
+
+The old women of the nation
+Heard the tales about this White Doe.
+Children they of superstition,
+With their faith firm in enchantment,
+Linked the _going_ of the maiden
+With the _coming_ of the White Doe.
+They believed in magic powers,
+They knew Chi-co's hopeless passion,
+So they shook their heads and whispered,
+Looked mysterious at each other,
+"Ho," they whispered to each other,
+"Chi-co is a great Magician,
+Chi-co should go hunt this White Doe;
+He is not too old for loving;
+Love keeps step with Youth and Courage;
+Old age should not make him tremble.
+Timid is a doe, and gentle
+Like a maiden,--like Wi-no-na.
+Oho! Oho!" and they chuckled,
+Casting dark looks at old Chi-co,
+"He," said they, "has 'witched our maiden."
+
+When O-kis-ko heard the whispers
+Of the garrulous old women,
+Glad belief he gave unto them
+That the Doe on Ro-a-no-ak
+Was in truth the Pale-Face Maiden
+Wrung from him by cruel magic.
+He was not a gabbling boaster,
+He could think and act in silence;
+And alone he roamed the island
+Seeking this White Doe to capture,
+So that he might tame and keep her
+Near him to assuage his sorrow.
+
+All in vain,--no hand could touch her.
+All in vain,--no hunter won her.
+Up the dunes of Ro-a-no-ak
+Still she led the herd of wild deer.
+
+Then O-kis-ko sought We-nau-don,
+The Magician of Po-mou-ik.[Z]
+Gave him store of skins and wampum,
+Promised all his greed demanded,
+If he would restore the maiden,
+Break the spell which held her spirit.
+
+[Illustration: The magician of Po-mou-ik]
+
+In his heart We-nau-don cherished
+Hatred for his rival Chi-co
+For some boyhood's cause of anger,
+For defeat in public wrestling;
+And because of this he welcomed
+Now the time to vent his malice.
+So he promised from enchantment
+To release the captive maiden.
+
+In the days of pristine nature,
+In the dells of Ro-a-no-ak,
+Bubbling from the earth's dark caverns,
+Was a spring of magic water.
+There the Naiads held their revels,
+There in secret met their lovers;
+And they laid a spell upon it
+Which should make true lovers happy;
+For to them true love was precious.
+
+He who drank of it at midnight
+When the Harvest Moon was brightest,
+Using as a drinking-vessel
+Skull-bowl of his greatest rival
+Killed in open, honest combat,
+And by summer sunshine whitened,
+He gained youth perennial from it
+And the heart he wished to love him.
+
+He who bathed within its waters,
+Having killed a dove while moaning,
+And had killed no other creature
+Since three crescent moons had rounded;
+Vowing to be kind and helpful
+To the sad and weary-hearted:
+He received the magic power
+To undo all spells of evil
+Which divided faithful lovers.
+
+In this spring had bathed We-nau-don,
+And he held its secrets sacred;
+But a feeling ever moved him
+To make glad the heavy-hearted.
+So he showed unto O-kis-ko
+Where to find the magic water;
+With this counter-charm, he told him
+How to free the charmed Wi-no-na:
+
+"In a shark's tooth, long and narrow
+In a closely wrought triangle,
+Set three mussel-pearls of purple,
+Smooth and polished with much rubbing.
+To an arrow of witch-hazel,
+New, and fashioned very slender,
+Set the shark's tooth, long and narrow,
+With its pearl-inlaid triangle.
+From the wing of living heron
+Pluck one feather, white and trusty;
+With this feather wing the arrow,
+That it swerve not as it flyeth.
+Fashioned thus with care and caution,
+Let no mortal eye gaze on it;
+Tell no mortal of your purpose;
+Secretly at sunset place it
+In the spring of magic water.
+Let it rest there through three sunsets,
+Then when sunrise gilds the tree-tops
+Take it dripping from the water,
+At the rising sun straight point it,
+While three times these words repeating:
+_Mussel-pearl arrow, to her heart go;
+Loosen the fetters which bind the White Doe;
+Bring the lost maiden back to O-kis-ko._
+With this arrow hunt the White Doe,
+Have no timid fear of wounding;
+When her heart it enters boldly
+Chi-co's charm will melt before it."
+
+Every word O-kis-ko heeded,
+Hope, once dead, now cheered his spirit.
+From the sea three pearls he gathered;
+From the thicket brought witch-hazel
+For the making of the arrow;
+From the heron's wing a feather
+Plucked to true its speed in flying.
+Patiently he cut and labored,
+As for love's sake man will labor;
+Shaped the arrow, new and slender,
+Set the pearls into the shark's tooth,
+Fastened firm the heron's feather,
+With a faith which mastered reason.
+In the magic spring he steeped it,
+Watching lest some eye should see it;
+Through three sunsets steeped and watched it;
+Three times o'er the charm repeated
+While the sunrise touched the tree-tops;
+Then prepared to test its power.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote Z: See Appendix, Note _s_.]
+
+
+
+
+V
+
+THE HUNT
+
+
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water
+Long the Summer-Glory lingered,
+Loath to yield its ripened beauty
+To the cold embrace of Winter.
+And the greenness of the forest
+Gave no sign of coming treason,
+Till the White Frost without warning
+Hung his banners from the tree-tops.
+Then a blush of brilliant color
+Decked each shrub with tinted beauty;
+Gold, and brown, and scarlet mingled
+Till no color seemed triumphant;
+And the Summer doomed to exile
+Fled before the chilling Autumn.
+
+While the glow of colors deepened,
+The proud Weroance Win-gin-a,
+Chief of Das-a-mon-gue-pue land,
+Made a feast for all his people;
+Called them forth with bow and arrow
+To a test of skill and valor.
+He was weary of the mysteries
+Whispered of the famous White Doe,
+Whose strange courage feared no hunter,
+For no arrow ever reached her.
+"Ha!" said he, "a skilful hunter
+Is not daunted by a white doe;
+Craven hearts make trembling fingers,
+Arrows fail when shot by cowards.
+_I_ will shoot this doe so fearless,
+Her white skin shall be my mantle,[AA]
+Her white meat shall serve for feasting,
+And my braves shall cease from fearing.
+From the fields the maize invites us,
+Sturgeons have been fat and plenty.
+We are weary of fish-eating,
+We will feast on meat of white deer."
+
+Messengers of invitation
+Sent he to the other nations,
+Saying, "Come and hunt the White Doe,
+Bring your surest, fleetest arrows;
+We will eat the meat of white deer,
+We will drink the purple grape-juice,
+Burn the uppowoc in pipe-bowls,
+While we shame the trembling hunters."
+
+But the Cro-a-to-ans kept silence,
+Sent no answer to his greeting.
+They believed the charmèd White Doe
+Was Wi-no-na Skâ's pure spirit,
+Who in freedom still was happy,
+And they would not wound or harm her,
+They would shoot no arrows at her,
+Nor help feast upon her body.
+
+Then O-kis-ko answered boldly;
+"I will go and hunt this White Doe,
+I will shoot from my own ambush,
+I will take my fleetest arrow."
+And the men and women wondered,
+For they knew his former loving.
+
+But O-kis-ko kept his secret,
+Showed no one his new-made arrow;
+'Round his shoulders threw a mantle
+Made of skins of many sea-gulls,
+So that he could hide his arrow,
+And no mortal eye could see it
+Till he sent it on its mission
+Winged with magic, fraught with mercy.
+
+Thus he went to Ro-a-no-ak,
+Love, and hope, and faith impelling,
+Conscious of his aim unerring,
+Trusting in the arrow's power.
+
+From Po-mou-ik came Wan-ches-e,
+For the hunt and feast impatient,
+Boasting of his skill and valor,
+Saying in his loud vainglory:
+"I will teach the braves to shoot deer,
+Young men now are not great hunters,
+Hearts like squaws they have within them,
+Nothing fears them but a papoose."
+
+Wan-ches-e had crossed the water[AB]
+In the ships with wings like sea-birds,
+And the Pale-Face Weroanza,
+Whom he saw in her own country,
+Him to please and show her friendship,
+Gave an arrow-head of silver
+To him as a mark of favor.
+
+This he now brought proudly with him,
+As of all his arrows fleetest;
+Bearing in its lustrous metal,
+As he thought, some gift of power
+From the mighty Weroanza
+Which would bring success unto him;
+And the warriors all would praise him
+As around the feast they gathered,
+Saying as he walked among them:
+"There is none like brave Wan-ches-e,
+He can bend the bow with firmness,
+He has arrow-points of silver,
+And the White Doe falls before him."
+And he polished well the arrow
+Which he thought would bring him praises.
+
+Where the deer were wont to wander
+All the hunters took their stations,
+While the stalkers sought the forest,
+From its depths to start the deer-herd.
+
+Near the shore Win-gin-a lingered
+That he first might shoot his arrow,
+And thus have the certain glory
+Of the White Doe's death upon him.
+
+By a pine-tree stood Wan-ches-e
+With his silver arrow ready;
+While O-kis-ko, unseen, waited
+Near by in his chosen ambush,
+Where he oft had watched the White Doe,
+Where he knew she always lingered.
+
+Soon the stalkers with great shouting
+Started up the frightened red deer;
+On they came through brake and thicket,
+In the front the White Doe leading,
+With fleet foot and head uplifted,
+Daring all the herd to follow.
+
+Easy seemed the task of killing,
+So Win-gin-a twanged his bow-string,
+But his arrow fell beside her
+As she sprang away from danger.
+
+Through the tanglewood, still onward,
+Head uplifted, her feet scorning
+All the wealth of bright-hued foliage
+Which lay scattered in her pathway.
+Up the high sand-dunes she bounded,
+In her wake the whole herd followed,
+While the arrows aimed from ambush
+Fell around her ever harmless.
+
+On she sped, towards the water,
+Nostrils spread to sniff the sea-breeze;
+Through the air a whizzing arrow
+Flew, but did not touch the White Doe;
+But a stag beside her bounding
+Wounded fell among the bushes,
+And the herd fled in confusion,
+Waiting now not for the leader.
+
+On again, with leaping footsteps,
+Tossing head turned to the sea-shore;
+For one fatal minute standing
+Where the White Man's Fort had once stood;
+In her eyes came wistful gleamings
+Like a lost hope's fleeting shadow.
+
+While with graceful poise she lingered,
+Swift, Wan-ches-e shot his arrow
+Aimed with cruel thought to kill her;
+While from near and secret ambush,
+With unerring aim, O-kis-ko
+Forward sent his magic arrow,
+Aimed with thought of love and mercy.
+
+To her heart straight went _both_ arrows,
+And with leap of pain she bounded
+From the earth, and then fell forward,
+Prone, amidst the forest splendor.
+O-kis-ko, with fond heart swelling,
+Wan-ches-e, with pride exultant,
+To the Doe both sprang to claim it,
+Each surprised to see the other.
+
+Suddenly, within the forest,
+Spread a gleaming mist around them,
+Like a dense white fog in summer,
+So they scarce could grope their pathway.
+Slowly, as if warmed by sunbeams,
+From one spot the soft mist melted,
+While within its bright'ning dimness,
+With the misty halo 'round her,
+Stood a beautiful white maiden,--
+_Stood the gentle, lost Wi-no-na_.
+
+Through her heart two arrows crosswise
+Pierced the flesh with cruel wounding;
+Downward flowed the crimson blood-tide,
+Staining red the snow-white doe-skin
+Which with grace her form enveloped,
+While her arms with pleading gesture
+To O-kis-ko were outstretching.
+
+As they gazed upon the vision,
+All their souls with wonder filling;
+While the white mist slowly melted,
+_Prostrate fell the wounded maiden_.
+
+Then revealed was all the myst'ry,
+Then they saw what had befallen.
+To her heart the magic arrow
+First had pierced, and lo! Wi-no-na
+Once more breathed in form of maiden.
+
+But while yet the charm was passing
+Came the arrow of Wan-ches-e;
+To her heart it pierced unerring,
+Pierced the pearl-inlaid triangle,
+Struck and broke the shark's tooth narrow,
+_Charm and counter-charm undoing_;
+Leaving but a mortal maiden
+Wounded past the hope of healing.
+
+Woe to love, and hope, and magic!
+Woe to hearts whom death divideth!
+While upon her bleeding bosom
+Fatal arrows made the Cross-Sign,
+Wistful eyes she turned to Heaven;
+"O forget not your Wi-no-na,"
+Whispered she unto O-kis-ko,
+As her soul passed to the silence.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote AA: See Appendix, Note _p_.]
+
+[Footnote AB: See Appendix, Note _l_.]
+
+
+
+
+VI
+
+THE SILVER ARROW
+
+
+Fear seized on the bold Wan-ches-e
+When he saw the Pale-Face maiden
+Standing where had poised the White Doe,
+Where the White Man's Fort had once stood.
+He knew naught of magic arrows,
+Nor O-kis-ko's secret mission;
+He saw only his own arrow
+Piercing through her tender bosom,
+Never doubting but the wonder
+Which his awe-struck eyes had witnessed
+Had been wrought by his own arrow,
+Silver arrow from a far land,
+Fashioned by the skill of Pale-Face,
+Gift of Pale-Face Weroanza
+To a race she willed to conquer.
+
+All his hatred of the Pale-Face,
+Fed by fear and superstition,
+To him made this sudden vision
+Seem an omen of the future,
+When the Red Man, like the White Doe,
+Should give place unto the Pale-Face,
+And the Indian, like the white mist,
+Fade from out his native forest.
+All his courage seemed to weaken
+With the dread of dark disaster;
+And with instincts strong for safety
+Fled he from the place in terror.
+
+Love hath not the fear of danger,
+And O-kis-ko's faith in magic
+Kept him brave to meet the changes
+Which had each so quickly followed.
+For he saw the human maiden
+Where had stood the living White Doe;
+And he knew his hazel arrow,
+Charmed with all We-nau-don's magic,
+Had restored the lost Wi-no-na
+To reward his patient loving.
+
+But the conflict of _two_ arrows,
+Bringing death unto the maiden,
+Was a deep and darksome myst'ry
+Which his ignorance could not fathom.
+All the cause of his undoing
+Saw he in the silver arrow;
+So with true love's tireless effort,
+Quick he strove to break its power.
+
+From her heart he plucked the arrow,
+Hastened to the magic water,
+Hoping to destroy the evil
+Which had stilled the maiden's pulses.
+In the sparkling spring he laid it
+So no spot was left uncovered,
+So the full charm of the water
+Might act on the blood-stained arrow.
+
+As the blood-stains from it melted,
+Blood of Pale-Face shed by Red Man,
+Slowly, while he watched and waited,
+_All the sparkling water vanished;_
+Dry became the magic fountain,
+Leaving bare the silver arrow.
+
+Was it thus the spell would weaken
+Which had wrought his love such evil?
+Would she be again awakened
+When he sought her in the thicket?
+Must he shoot this arrow at her
+To restore her throbbing pulses?
+Must he seek again We-nau-don
+To make warm her icy beauty?
+
+While he of himself sought guidance,
+Sought to know the hidden meaning
+Of the mysteries he witnessed;
+Lo! another mystic wonder
+Met his eyes as he sat musing.
+
+From the arrow made by Pale-Face,
+As th' enchanted water left it,
+Sprang a tiny shoot with leaflets
+Pushing upward to the sunlight.
+
+Did the arrow dry the fountain
+With the blight of death it carried?
+Or in going, had the water
+Left a charm upon the arrow?
+Did the heart-blood of the Pale-Face
+From the arrow in the water
+Cause the coming of the green shoot,
+Which reached upward to the sunlight?
+
+All O-kis-ko's love and courage
+Could not give him greater knowledge.
+Savage mind could not unravel
+All the meaning of this marvel.
+Fear forbade him touch the arrow
+Lest he should destroy the green shoot;
+So he left the tender leaflets
+Reaching upward to the sunlight,
+Sought again the lifeless maiden
+For whose love his soul had hungered;
+Knelt beside her in the forest,
+With the awe of death upon him,
+Which in heathen as in Christian
+Moves the human soul to worship.
+
+All his faith in savage magic
+Turned to frenzy at his failure;
+And the helplessness of mortals
+Pressed upon him like a burden;
+While a mighty longing seized him
+For a knowledge of the Unknown,
+For a light to pierce the Silence
+Into which none enter living.
+And unconsciously his spirit
+Rose in quest of Might Supernal,
+Which should rule both dead and living,
+Leaving naught to chance or magic;
+Which should seize the throbbing pulses
+Ebbing from a dying mortal,
+And create a higher being
+Free from thrall of earthly nature;
+Almost grasping in his yearning
+Knowledge of the God Eternal,
+In whose hand the earth lies helpless,
+In whose heart all souls find refuge.
+
+But no light came to O-kis-ko;
+Still the burden pressed upon him,
+And a pall of hopeless yearning
+Wrapped his soul in voiceless sorrow
+As he gazed upon the maiden
+With death's mysteries enfolded.
+Then he made upon her bosom
+The strange Cross-Sign she had taught him;
+From his shoulders took the mantle
+Made of skins of many sea-gulls,
+Gently wrapped the maiden in it,
+Heaped the tinted leaves about her;
+Leaving all his own life's brightness
+With her where the shadows darkened.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Thus the ancient legend runneth, with its plaint of hopeless doom,
+Bearing in its heart the fragrance of the Truth's enduring bloom,
+Standing in the light of knowledge, where developed ages meet,
+We can read the mystic omens which O-kis-ko's eyes did greet.
+And to us they seem the symbols of what coming ages brought,
+Realization gives the answer, which in vain the Savage sought.
+For we know the silver arrow, fatal to all sorcery,
+Was the gleaming light of Progress speeding from across the sea,
+Before which the Red Man vanished, shrinking from its silvery light
+As the magic waters yielded to the silver arrow's blight.
+And the tiny shoot with leaflets, by the sunlight warmed to life,
+Was the Vine of Civilization in the wilderness of strife;
+With no friendly hand to tend it, yet it grew midst slight and wrong,
+Taking root in other places,[AC]--growing green, and broad, and strong,
+Till its vigor knew no weakness, with its branches flower-fraught,
+Till a prosp'rous land it sheltered where th' oppressed a refuge sought,
+Till its fruit made all who labored 'neath its shade both bold and free,
+Till a people dwelt beneath it strong to meet their destiny.
+
+Now beneath its spreading branches dwells a nation brave and free,
+Raising glad, triumphant pæans for the boon of Liberty;
+Holding fast the Holy Cross-Sign,--Heirs of Duty and of Light,--
+Still they speed the arrow, Progress, on its civilizing flight;
+Keeping bright the Fires of Freedom, where Man, Brotherhood may know,
+For God's breath upon the altar keeps the sacred flame aglow.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote AC: Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.]
+
+
+
+
+APPENDIX
+
+
+NOTE _a_.--"We viewed the land about us, being where we first landed
+very sandy and low towards the water side, but so full of grapes as the
+very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them, of which we found
+such plenty, as well there as in all places else, both on the sand and
+on the green soil, on the hills as in the plains, as well on every
+little shrub, as also climbing towards the tops of high cedars, that I
+think in all the world the like abundance is not to be found."--_First
+voyage of Amadas and Barlowe, 1584. From Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _b_.--"The second of July we found shoal water, where we smelled
+so sweet and so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some
+delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers, by
+which we were assured that the land could not be far distant."--_First
+voyage of Amadas and Barlowe, 1584._
+
+NOTE _c_.--"Deer, in some places there are great store: near unto the
+seacoast they are of the ordinary bigness of ours in England, and some
+less: but further up into the country where there is better feed, they
+are greater."--_Harriot's Report._
+
+NOTE _d_.--"The Governor (John White) with divers of his company,
+walked to the north end of the island, where Master Ralph Lane had his
+fort, with sundry necessary and decent dwelling houses, made by his men
+about it, the year before, where we hoped to find some signs, or
+certain knowledge of our fifteen men. When we came thither we found the
+fort razed down, but all the houses standing unhurt, saving that the
+neather rooms of them, and also of the fort, were overgrown with melons
+of divers sorts, and deer within them, feeding on those melons; so we
+returned to our company, without hope of ever seeing any of the fifteen
+alive."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _e_.--"At our first landing they seemed as though they would fight
+with us, but perceiving us begin to march with our shot towards them,
+they turned their backs and fled. Then Manteo, their countryman, called
+to them in their own language, whom, as soon as they heard, they
+returned, and threw away their bows and arrows, and some of them came
+unto us embracing and entertaining us friendly, desiring us not to
+gather or spoil any of their corn, for that they had but little. We
+answered them that neither their corn nor any other thing of theirs
+should be diminished by any of us, and that our coming was only to
+renew the old love, that was between us and them at the first, and to
+live with them as brethren and friends; which answer seemed to please
+them well, wherefore they requested us to walk up to their town, who
+there feasted us after their manner, and desired us earnestly _that
+there might be some token or badge given them of us_, whereby we might
+know them to be our friends," etc.
+
+"And also we understood by them of Croatoan, how that the fifteen
+Englishmen left at Roanoak the year before, by Sir Richard Grenville,
+were suddenly set upon by thirty of the men of Secota, Aquoscogoc, and
+Dasamonguepeuc, in manner following. They conveyed themselves secretly
+behind the trees, near the houses where our men carelessly lived, and
+having perceived that of those fifteen they could see but eleven only,
+two of those savages appeared to the eleven Englishmen, calling to them
+by friendly signs that but two of their chief men should come unarmed
+to speak with those two savages, who seemed also to be unarmed.
+Wherefore two of the chiefest of our Englishmen went gladly to them;
+but whilst one of those savages traitorously embraced one of our men,
+the other with his sword of wood, which he had secretly hidden under
+his mantle, struck him on the head and slew him, and presently the
+other eight and twenty savages shewed themselves; the other Englishman
+perceiving this, fled to his company, whom the savages pursued with
+their bows and arrows so fast that the Englishmen were forced to take
+the house, wherein all their victuals and weapons were; but the savages
+forthwith set the same on fire, by means whereof our men were forced to
+take up such weapons as came first to hand, and without order to run
+forth among the savages, with whom they skirmished above an hour. In
+this skirmish another of our men was shot into the mouth with an
+arrow, where he died; and also one of the savages was shot into the
+side by one of our men, with a wild fire arrow, whereof he died
+presently. The place where they fought was of great advantage to the
+savages, by means of the thick trees, behind which the savages through
+their nimbleness defended themselves, and so offended our men with
+their arrows, that our men, being some of them hurt, retired fighting
+to the water side where their boat lay, with which they fled towards
+Hatorask. By that time they had rowed but a quarter of a mile, they
+espied their four fellows coming from a creek thereby, where they had
+been to fetch oysters; these four they received into their boat,
+leaving Roanoak, and landed on a little island on the right hand of our
+entrance into the harbor of Hatorask, where they remained awhile, but
+afterwards departed, whither as yet we know not."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _f_.--"The thirteenth of August, our savage, Manteo, by the
+commandment of Sir Walter Raleigh, was christened in Roanoak, and
+called Lord thereof, and of Dasamonguepeuc, in reward of his faithful
+services."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _g_.--"The eighteenth, Eleanor, daughter to the Governor, and wife
+to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter, in
+Roanoak, and the same was christened there the Sunday following, and
+because this child was the first Christian born in Virginia, she was
+named Virginia."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _h_.--"The twenty-second of August, the whole company, both of the
+assistants and planters, came to the Governor, and with one voice
+requested him to return himself into England, for the better and sooner
+obtaining of supplies and other necessaries for them; but he refused
+it, and alleged many sufficient causes why he would not.... The next
+day, not only the assistants, but divers others, as well women as men,
+began to renew their requests to the Governor again, to take upon him
+to return into England for the supplies and dispatch of all such things
+as there were to be done.... The Governor being at the last, through
+their extreme entreating, constrained to return into England, having
+then but half a day's respite to prepare himself for the same, departed
+from Roanoak the seven and twentieth of August in the morning, and the
+same day about midnight came aboard the Fly-boat who already had
+weighed anchor, and rode without the bar, the admiral riding by them,
+who but the same morning was newly come thither again. The same day
+both the ships weighed anchor and set sail for England."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _k_.--"Our boats and all things filled again, we put off from
+Hatorask, being the number of nineteen persons in both boats; but
+before we could get to the place where our planters were left, it was
+so exceeding dark, that we overshot the place a quarter of a mile,
+where we espied towards the North end of the island the light of a
+great fire through the woods to the which we presently rowed: when we
+came right over against it we let fall our grapnel near the shore, and
+sounded with a trumpet a call, and afterwards many familiar English
+tunes of songs, and called to them friendly; but we had no answer, we
+therefore landed at daybreak, and coming to the fire we found the grass
+and sundry rotten trees burning about the place. From hence we went
+through the woods to that part of the island directly over against
+Dasamonguepeuc, and from thence we returned by the water side round
+about the north point of the island, until we came to the place where I
+left our colony in the year 1586. In all this way we saw in the sand
+the print of the savages' feet of two or three sorts trodden in the
+night; and as we entered up the sandy bank, upon a tree, in the very
+brow thereof, were curiously carved these fair Roman letters C. R. O.,
+which letters presently we knew to signify the place where I should
+find the planters seated, according to a secret token agreed upon
+between them and me at my last departure from them; which was, that in
+any way they should not fail to write or carve on the trees or posts of
+the doors the name of the place where they should be seated; for at my
+coming away they were prepared to remove from Roanoak fifty miles into
+the main. Therefore at my departure from them in An. 1587, I willed
+them that if they should happen to be distressed in any of those
+places, that then they should carve over the letters or name, a cross †
+in this form; but we found no such sign of distress.... And having well
+considered of this, we passed towards the place where they were left in
+sundry houses, but we found the houses taken down, and the place very
+strongly enclosed with a high palisade of great trees, with curtains
+and flankers, very fort-like, and one of the chief trees or posts at
+the right side of the entrance had the bark taken off, and five feet
+from the ground in fair capital letters was graven CROATOAN without any
+cross or sign of distress.... I greatly joyed that I had safely found a
+certain token of their safe being at Croatoan, which is the place where
+Manteo was born, and the savages of the island our friends."--_From
+Governor White's account of his voyage in search of the colonists,
+after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Hakluyt, Vol. III._
+
+NOTE _l_.--"We brought home also two of the savages, being lusty men,
+whose names were Wan-ches-e and Man-te-o."--_First voyage by Amadas and
+Barlowe._
+
+NOTE _m_.--All authorities agree in the statement that the favorite
+time among the Indians for an attack on an enemy was at, or about,
+daybreak.
+
+NOTE _n_.--"Into this river falls another great river called Cipo in
+which there is found great store of mussels in which there are
+pearls."--_Voyage of Amadas and Barlowe._
+
+"In her ears she had bracelets of pearls, hanging down to her middle,
+and these were of the bigness of good pease."--_Voyage of Amadas and
+Barlowe._
+
+"Sometimes feeding on mussels, we found some pearle, but it was our hap
+to meet with ragges, or of a pied colour; not having yet discovered
+those places where we heard of better and more plenty."--_Harriot's
+Report._
+
+NOTE _o_.--"The manner of making their boats in Virginia is very
+wonderful. For whereas they want instruments of iron or others like
+unto ours, yet they know how to make them as handsomely, to sail with
+where they list in their rivers, and to fish withal, as ours. First
+they choose some long and thick tree, according to the bigness of the
+boat which they would frame, and make a fire on the ground about the
+roots thereof, kindling the same by little and little with dry moss of
+trees, and chips of wood that the flame should not mount up too high,
+and burn too much of the length of the tree. When it is almost burnt
+through, and ready to fall they make a new fire which they suffer to
+burn until the tree falls of its own accord. Then burning off the top
+and boughs of the tree in such wise that the body of the same may
+retain his just length, they raise it upon poles laid over cross wise
+upon forked posts at such a reasonable height as they may handsomely
+work upon it. Then take they off the bark with certain shells; they
+reserve the innermost part of the bark for the nethermost part of the
+boat. On the other side they make a fire according to the length of the
+body of the tree saving at both the ends. That which they think is
+sufficiently burned, they quench and scrape away with shells, and
+making a new fire they burn it again and so they continue, sometimes
+burning and sometimes scraping until the boat have sufficient
+bottoms."--_Harriot's Report._
+
+NOTE _p_.--"They are a people clothed with loose mantles made of deer
+skin, and aprons of the same round about their middles."--_Harriot's
+Report._
+
+NOTE _s_.--"They have commonly conjurers or jugglers, which use strange
+gestures, and often contrary to nature in their enchantments: For they
+be very familiar with devils of whom they inquire what their enemies
+do, or other such things."--_Harriot's Report._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes
+
+
+Page xiii: Changed thay to that
+  (Tradition relates thay they transplanted this vine).
+
+Spelling variations:
+
+Page 55: Das-a-mon-que-peu
+Page 63: Das-a-mon-gue-pue
+Pages 83, 84, 86: Dasamonguepeuc
+
+Pages xii, xiv: Hariot
+Appendix Notes: Harriot
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+THE WHITE DOE
+
+THE FATE OF
+VIRGINIA DARE
+
+_AN INDIAN LEGEND_
+
+BY
+
+SALLIE
+SOUTHALL
+COTTEN
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Printed for the Author
+BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA
+
+
+
+
+Copyright, 1901
+
+BY SALLIE SOUTHALL COTTEN
+
+_All rights reserved_
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+"While within its bright'ning dimness,
+With the misty halo 'round her,
+Stood a beautiful white maiden"
+
+Page 70]
+
+
+
+
+TO
+
+The National Society
+of
+Colonial Dames of America
+
+WHOSE PATRIOTIC WORK HAS STIMULATED
+RESEARCH INTO AN IMPORTANT AND
+INTERESTING PERIOD OF THE HISTORY OF
+
+OUR BELOVED COUNTRY
+
+
+
+
+FORGOTTEN FACTS AND FANCIES
+OF AMERICAN HISTORY
+
+
+AS civilization advances there develops in the heart of man a higher
+appreciation of the past, and the deeds of preceding generations come
+to be viewed with a calm criticism which denudes those deeds of false
+splendor and increases the lustre of real accomplishment. Man cannot
+see into the future and acquire the prescience of coming events which
+would make him infallible, but he can remove the veil from the past,
+contemplate the mistakes and successes of those who have lived before
+him, and who struggled with the same problems which now confront him.
+The results of their efforts are recorded in history, and inspired by
+high ideals he can study the past, and by feeding his lamp of wisdom
+with the oil of their experiences he secures a greater light to guide
+his own activities. Man remains a slave to Fate until Knowledge makes
+him free, and while all true knowledge comes from experience, it need
+not necessarily be _personal_ experience.
+
+In studying the past, deeds come to be estimated more with reference to
+their ultimate results and as factors in universal progress, and less
+as personal efforts; just as more and more the personal merges into the
+universal in all lines of endeavor. Viewed in this light of ultimate
+results an imperishable and increased lustre envelops the name of Sir
+Walter Raleigh as the pioneer and faithful promoter of English
+colonization in America. The recognition of his services by the people
+who reap the reward of his labors has ever been too meagre. A portrait
+here and there, the name of the capital city in a State, a mention
+among other explorers on a tablet in the National Library, the name of
+a battleship, and a few pages in history, help to remind us of his
+association with this nation. Perhaps a few may recognize his personal
+colors--red and white--in the binding in this book, and his Coat of
+Arms in the heraldic device which ornaments the cover, and which are
+mentioned "lest we forget" one we should honor.
+
+The present and ever increasing greatness of these United States is due
+to the efforts of this remarkable man, who so wondrously combined in
+one personality the attributes of statesman, courtier, soldier,
+scientist, poet, explorer, and martyr. Isabella of Spain offered her
+jewels to aid Columbus, and the deed has been lauded and celebrated as
+of international value, yet it contained no touch of personal
+sacrifice. She was never deprived of her jewels, and while her generous
+offer proved her faith in the theories and ability of Columbus, it
+brought to her no suffering. On the other hand, the efforts of Sir
+Walter Raleigh were at his own expense, and entailed financial disaster
+on him in the end. That he sought to extend the power of England must
+be admitted by those who correctly estimate his character; yet no one
+will deny that he was the most important factor in the colonization of
+America by the English. Spain, France, and England contended long for
+supremacy in the New World, but France failed to gain any permanent
+power, and Spanish dominance, as illustrated in South America and
+Mexico, was followed by slow progress. It was the English race, _led by
+Raleigh_, which has become the leading power and modern strength of
+America. Colony after colony he sent to the new land, and desisted not,
+even after the death of his half-brother and coadjutor, Sir Humphrey
+Gilbert. Disaster could not daunt so brave a spirit, and with
+unsurpassed enterprise and perseverance he continued to send
+expeditions year after year to what is now the coast of North Carolina,
+but which was then called Virginia, and recognized as Raleigh's
+possessions. Much money was required, and when his own fortune was
+exhausted he transferred to what is known as the London Company his
+rights to the land, and _by his advice_ they avoided his mistakes and
+made the next settlement at Jamestown instead of Roanoak Island.
+
+These facts have been temporarily obscured by the moss of neglect, but
+they cannot be destroyed. They will ever remain the foundation-stones
+of the great structure known and respected among nations as the United
+States of America, and were laid by Sir Walter Raleigh at Roanoak
+Island, on the coast of North Carolina, which was then called Virginia.
+The intervening years have brought great results, those early struggles
+have ripened into success and greatness beyond Raleigh's most sanguine
+dreams. A new race has arisen, yet bearing the characteristics of the
+race from which it sprung. Our English ancestors, our heritage of
+English law and custom, of religion and home life, of language and
+ideals, all tempered by the development of new characteristics, bind us
+_through him_ to England.
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh was not an ordinary man. He was one of the most
+remarkable of a coterie of remarkable men whom a remarkable queen
+(Elizabeth) gathered around her, and to whom she owed much of the
+grandeur of her remarkable reign. Elizabeth's greatest gift was a
+capacity for discerning and using great minds, and she had the good
+fortune to find many around her at that period of time. Raleigh won her
+favor, and received from her many benefits, among which was the honor
+of knighthood with its emoluments, which she conferred. In the end her
+favor cost him dear, because his heart had the courage to be true to
+itself in love. Elizabeth never forgave him for loving, marrying, and
+being true until death to her maid of honor, the beautiful Elizabeth
+Throckmorton. That vain and jealous queen permitted no rivals, and she
+wished to reign over the heart of this man, who, handsome, brave,
+gallant, intelligent, and romantic, made an ideal courtier. His life at
+court was brilliant but brief. Love anchored a soul attuned to loftier
+deeds, and after his marriage his career as a courtier was eclipsed by
+his later exploits as a statesman, warrior, explorer, and author. He
+planned and participated in many expeditions which brought benefit to
+his queen and added to his own fortune, yet none of his expeditions
+have borne such an ever-increasing harvest of results as those he sent
+to America. He began that work in 1584, and continued to send
+expeditions in 1585-1586-1587, until the invasion of England by the
+Spanish Armada forced him to other activities, and even then he sent
+two expeditions to the relief of the colonists, which, because of the
+exigencies of war, failed to reach America. In fact, the attitude of
+Spain towards England at that time was the greatest obstacle which
+militated against the success of his colonies. His ships and his valor
+were necessary to suppress and check the insolence and ambition of
+Spain, who designed to conquer England and become mistress of the
+world. By his valor, loyalty, and wisdom Raleigh was largely
+instrumental in bringing about the failure of those plans and in
+defeating the Spanish fleet, which had been boastingly named The
+Invincible Armada. Again his zeal and cool daring won for England the
+great victory of Cadiz, which has always ranked as the most remarkable
+achievement in the annals of naval warfare. With only seven ships he
+dashed in and destroyed a large Spanish fleet (fifty-five ships) in its
+own harbor with a dexterity and valor not surpassed even by Dewey at
+Manila nor by Schley at Santiago.
+
+Spain was always his foe because she feared him, and it seems like the
+Nemesis of fate that three hundred years later the death-blow of Spain
+as a world power was dealt in Manila Bay by the nation which Raleigh
+strove so hard to plant, himself all unconscious of what the years were
+to bring. On that famous morning when Dewey startled the world and
+chastised Spain for her insolence and cruelty, the ship which fired the
+first shot in a battle destined to change the rating of two nations,
+the ship which first replied to the fire of the Spanish forts, as if
+answering the challenge of an old-time foe,--that ship was the
+_Raleigh_, named in honor of that great man by the nation he had
+fostered, and in that battle Raleigh's foe was humbled, Raleigh's fame
+perpetuated, and Raleigh's death avenged.
+
+After the death of Elizabeth the star of Raleigh set. He whose most
+valiant work had been the defense of England against the attacks of
+Spain was falsely charged with treasonable negotiations with Spain, and
+after a farce of a trial was thrown into prison, where he remained more
+than twelve years. The only mitigations of the horrors of prison life
+were the presence of his devoted wife and his books. He had always been
+a student, and he spent the weary hours of his long confinement in
+that companionship which is known only to those who really love books,
+and to such minds they prove a panacea for sorrow and injustice. During
+that imprisonment he wrote his famous "History of the World," marking
+the eventful epoch by writing a history of the Old World at the same
+time that he was opening the gates of the future by planting English
+colonies in the New World. As soon as he was released from prison his
+mind returned to schemes of exploration. He made a voyage to South
+America, where new disasters befell him, and where his oldest son was
+killed. Shattered by grief and misfortune he returned to England, where
+his enemies had planned his certain downfall. Again he was sent to
+prison, but not for a long time, for soon his princely head paid the
+penalty which true greatness has too often paid to the power of a weak
+king. As a subject he was loyal and valiant, as a husband faithful and
+devoted, as a father affectionate and inspiring, as a scholar
+distinguished in prose and poetry, as a soldier he won fame and
+fortune, as a statesman he contributed to the renown of his sovereign's
+realm, and as a man he lived and died guided by the highest ideals.
+This was the man who spent a fortune trying to establish English
+colonies in North America, and who sent repeated expeditions to the
+island of Roanoak, situated where the waters of the Albemarle and
+Pamlico Sounds meet, on the coast of North Carolina, but which was then
+called Virginia.
+
+The island wears a cluster of historic jewels which should endear it to
+all patriotic Anglo-Americans. To them it should be the most sacred,
+the best loved spot in all the United States. There the first English
+settlements were made which led to English supremacy in the New World.
+There the first home altar was reared and the first child of English
+parents in the United States was born and baptized. There the blood of
+Englishmen first dyed the sod of North America, and there the first
+attempts at English agriculture were made. There was enacted the
+tragedy of American colonization, the disappearance of Raleigh's Lost
+Colony, and there the sacrament of baptism was first administered in
+the United States. Roanoak Island is a beautiful place, with fertile
+soil and wild luxuriance of vine-covered forests which are enveloped in
+a deep solitude which has become dignity. Restless waters ebb and flow
+by its side, restless winds kiss its bare sand dunes, a genial sun
+brings to maturity its wealth of tree and vine and shrub. Protected
+from the storms which ravage the ocean beyond, it sleeps in quiet
+beauty, content with its heritage of fame as _the first home of the
+English race in America_.
+
+Its isolated position, its wild beauty, its tragic associations, its
+dignified repose, all seem to have set it aside from the rush of modern
+progress that it might become a shrine for the homage of a patriotic
+people.
+
+The wonderful fertility of the soil of this island seemed a marvel to
+the early explorers, all of whom have testified to it. Ralph Lane,
+governor of the colony of 1585, in writing to Raleigh of the island and
+the surrounding country, declared it to be "the goodliest soil under
+the cope of heaven," and that "being inhabited with English no realm in
+Christendom were comparable to it;" every word of which is true now,
+provided that the English who inhabit it follow the suggestions of
+nature and adopt horticulture as the developing means. The surrounding
+country as well as Roanoak Island has a wealth of climbing vines and
+clustering grapes which point instinctively to grape culture. Amadas
+and Barlowe (1584) wrote that they found the land "so full of grapes as
+the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them, of which we
+found such plenty, as well there as in all places else, both on the
+sand and on the green soil, on the hills as on the plains, as well as
+on every little shrub as also climbing towards the top of high cedars,
+that I think in all the world the like abundance is not to be found."
+
+[Illustration: A Scuppernong Vineyard, Roanoak Island]
+
+Surely no other such natural vineyard was ever found outside the fabled
+Garden of the Gods!
+
+Even in this generation an old resident of the Banks, an ante-bellum
+pilot on these waters, has testified that his grandfather could
+remember the time "when if a vessel were stranded on any of the beaches
+the crew could crawl to land on the grapevines hanging over where now
+there is only a dry sand beach." Throughout the eastern part of that
+State (North Carolina) the grape riots in natural luxuriance and is
+luscious and fragrant. Many varieties remain wild, while others have
+been improved by cultivation. The three finest native American grapes,
+the Catawba, the Isabella, and the Scuppernong, are all indigenous to
+the soil of North Carolina. The Catawba, native to the banks of the
+river Catawba, from which it takes its name, is still found wild in
+North Carolina, while it has become celebrated at the North as a
+table-grape, and in Ohio as a wine-grape. In its adopted home it has
+revolutionized land values because of the money value of the product.
+The Isabella grape, so generally cultivated for table use, is thought
+to be a hybrid between the Burgundy and the native fox-grape of the
+Carolinas. The tradition runs that the Burgundy was brought to South
+Carolina by the Huguenots, and that cuttings from this hybrid were
+brought to North Carolina and successfully propagated. Mrs. Isabella
+Gibbs, for whom this well-known grape was named, carried a vine from
+North Carolina to Long Island, where it attracted attention because of
+its hardiness.
+
+To the people of the South Atlantic coast the Scuppernong is by far the
+most important of the native grapes, for while it refuses to flourish
+away from its native home, yet its great possibilities as a wine-grape
+are beginning to be appreciated. All the early explorers gave it
+special mention. Hariot in his famous Narrative wrote, "There are two
+kinds of grapes that the soil does yield naturally, the one is small
+and sour, of the ordinary bigness of ours in England; the other far
+greater and of _himself luscious sweet_. When they are planted and
+husbanded as they ought, a principal commodity of wines by them may be
+raised." (Hakluyt, 1586.) Lawson in his history (1714) describes
+several varieties, and dwells on the abundant supply of grapes and the
+great tangles of green vines. He wrote of a native _white_ grape, which
+many in that day thought existed only in his imagination; but it was
+a reality and was the now well-known Scuppernong, whose fame history
+and tradition both perpetuate, and whose real worth, greater than its
+legendary fame, is now being recognized and appreciated. There are
+several varieties of the Scuppernong, all luscious and yielding rich
+juices, and when ripe they fill the air with a fragrance unknown to any
+other grape.
+
+[Illustration: Old "Mother" Scuppernong Vine.]
+
+The first Scuppernong vine known to history was found on the mainland
+of the North Carolina coast by Amadas and Barlowe on their first voyage
+(1584). Tradition relates that they transplanted this vine to Roanoak
+Island. On this island there still flourishes an old vine, which
+despite its gnarled body and evident age continues to bear fruit. It is
+claimed that it is the same vine Amadas and Barlowe planted. Some
+insist that it was planted by Sir Walter Raleigh himself, but as that
+famous knight did not realize his wish to visit his new possessions in
+North America, the honor of having planted the vine must revert to
+Amadas and Barlowe. It seems to be endowed with perennial youth, and
+the harvest from its branches is an annual certainty.
+
+What the early explorers testified as to the abundant supply of grapes
+on the Carolina coast, and the propitious conditions existing for the
+propagation of the vine, is equally true to-day. The manifest destiny
+of North Carolina as the rival of Southern France in the production of
+wines seems to be inevitable. The marvel is how it has been so long
+delayed after Hariot's special mention of such possibilities. Hariot
+was a close observer with a practical mind, and the presence of an
+indigenous supply of material to sustain an important industry
+suggested to him that the people coming to this grape-laden land might
+establish such an industry to their advantage. The delay of the
+development of grape-culture in its native home can only be explained
+on the theory that when nature boldly invites, man becomes shy. This
+indifference to grape-culture is peculiar to America, for in Europe all
+the aristocracy who are land-owners, where the climate makes it
+possible, are cultivators of the grape, take great pride in their
+wines, boast of their rare and fine vintages, and hold the making of
+wine as one of the fine arts.
+
+The original Scuppernong has white skin, white pulp, white juice, and
+makes a white wine. Other varieties have dark purple skins and yield a
+reddish juice which makes a red wine. The dark varieties are said to be
+_seedlings_ from the original white variety, and tradition explains the
+metamorphosis in this way.
+
+[Illustration: Among the Scuppernongs.--A Modern Vineyard.]
+
+In the magic spring made famous in the legend of The White Doe, after
+the blood of Virginia Dare had melted from the silver arrow into the
+water of the spring, then the water disappeared. As the legend says:
+
+    "Dry became the magic fountain,
+    Leaving bare the silver arrow."
+
+Then while O-kis-ko looked on in wonderment he saw
+
+            "a tiny shoot with leaflets
+    Pushing upward to the sunlight."
+
+Tradition says that this "tiny shoot with leaflets" was a young
+seedling of the Scuppernong which had sprouted in the edge of the
+water, and it was not seen by O-kis-ko until all the water had
+disappeared. Then he saw it and immediately associated its appearance
+with the magic arrow, and so left it "reaching upward to the sunlight."
+After many days he returned to the spot-drawn by an irresistible
+longing, and covered the fatal arrow, which had brought him so much
+woe, with earth and leaves to hide it from his sight. The earth and
+leaves furnished the necessary nourishment to the tiny vine, which
+reached out with strength and vigor, and finding friendly bushes upon
+which to climb, it soon made a sheltering bower above the spot where
+had bubbled the magic spring. This tiny green bower became the favorite
+retreat of O-kis-ko, where he would linger to cherish thoughts of his
+lost love, Virginia Dare, and marvel on the wonders of her death. Then
+it came to pass that when fruit came upon this vine, lo! it was purple
+in hue instead of white like the other grapes, and yielded a _red_
+juice. Full of superstition, and still credulous of marvels, O-kis-ko
+imagined the change to be due to the magic arrow buried at its root. He
+gathered the grapes and pressed the juice from them, and lo! it was
+_red_--it was the semblance of blood, _Virginia Dare's blood_, absorbed
+from the water (in which it had melted from the arrow) by the vine, and
+yet potent for good. Surely it held some unseen power, for it combined
+in some mystic way through the mysterious earth at his feet all the
+power of the magic spring, the power of the silver arrow, and the power
+of human blood consecrated through human love. He reverently drank the
+juice of this new vine, believing that it would in some way link him
+with the spirit of her he had loved and lost. Year after year he drank
+this juice and fed his soul on thoughts of love, making unconsciously a
+sacrament, and finding happiness in the thought that the blood of the
+maiden would feed his spirit and lead him to her at last. To become
+good like her and to go to her became his highest hope. Aspiration had
+been born in his soul, and quickened by love it could not die, but led
+him blindly to strive to reach her, and such striving is never in vain.
+
+[Illustration: A "Virginia Dare" Vineyard.]
+
+Another fact that should be enshrined in the hearts and perpetuated in
+the memorials of the nation, is that on Roanoak Island the first
+Christian baptism in the United States was administered. By order of
+Sir Walter Raleigh, Manteo, the friendly Indian chief, was baptized
+soon after the arrival of the colony under Governor White, and the
+following Sunday Virginia Dare, the granddaughter of Governor White,
+was baptized, both events being officially reported to Raleigh. In this
+day of religious freedom any enforced adoption of religious forms
+shocks our pious instincts. Yet baptism has always been considered
+_necessary_ to salvation, and in the past the zeal of Christians for
+the salvation of their fellow-men often assumed the form of mild force.
+We read where the Spaniards, always religious fanatics, administered
+the Holy Sacrament to thousands in Central America and Mexico _at the
+point of the sword_; their zeal misleading them to force upon those
+less enlightened than themselves the hope of that heaven which they
+believed to be accessible only through certain Christian rites. So to
+order the baptism of an Indian chief seems a simple, kindly thing, and
+most probably Manteo desired it done. The only other Indian who
+received baptism in those early settlements was Pocahontas, in 1614.
+She was a captive at the time and held as a hostage to induce Powhatan
+to comply with certain demands of the colonists at Jamestown.
+
+Despite the fact that Virginia Dare was baptized twenty-seven years
+earlier than Pocahontas, yet it is the Indian Princess who is figured
+in the painting on the walls of the dome of the Capitol at Washington
+as receiving the first baptism in the colonies. Buried in the annals of
+that time lies the fact that twenty-seven years before any colonist
+even came to Jamestown, Virginia Dare was born and baptized, as the
+sequence of Christian birth and as the child of Christian parents.
+Virginia Dare was not a myth. She was a living, breathing reality, a
+human creature of good English descent, the granddaughter of the
+governor of the colonies, the daughter of the assistant governor, and a
+sharer in the mysterious fate of Raleigh's Lost Colony. The historical
+facts of her life and the legend of her fate and death are contained in
+the pages of "The White Doe."
+
+Her baptism would not have been mentioned in the records if it had not
+been official and proper. In a new land, surrounded by dangers and
+difficulties, with strange environment to divert the mind to other
+channels, it would have been easy and natural for her baptism to have
+been delayed if not altogether neglected amid the stress of events. Her
+prompt baptism and the official report of the event to Sir Walter
+Raleigh is convincing testimony to the presence of a chaplain at
+Roanoak.
+
+
+THE FIRST BAPTISM IN THE WILDS OF AMERICA!
+
+How naturally the scene rises before us. The young mother, her heart
+thrilling with the mysteries of love and life, and elated with the joy
+of motherhood, alert to the dangers of the new land, and suspicious of
+the strange people among whom her blue-eyed treasure must live, yet
+yielding cheerfully to the busy smiling English women who had crossed
+the ocean with her, and now with womanly intuition ministered to her
+needs. We can picture them making tidy the confused household, and
+stilling the cries of the infant as they prepare her to receive the
+sign of the cross. We can almost picture them deliberating over a
+choice from among their limited supply of vessels of one worthy to
+become the receptacle of the water to be used. It was on the
+Sabbath-Day, and the dedication to God of the wee creature who had so
+newly come among them was a fitting observance of the day. The solemn
+words of the ritual of the English Church, never before spoken in that
+primeval forest, must have awakened mysterious vibrations which linger
+yet and give to Roanoak Island that atmosphere of perpetual repose
+which envelops it. There must have come to those who witnessed the
+scene that holy Sabbath-Day, just as it comes now to those who view it
+from afar, a deep realization that the God of the English and the Great
+Spirit of the Indian are one and the same, then, now, and evermore. The
+One God to whom in baptism Virginia Dare was brought and in whose name
+Manteo the savage was signed with the cross and given the promise of
+salvation, and who remains the God of the millions of English-speaking
+people who now worship in the land which was then and there dedicated
+to the service of Christ.
+
+The mist of oblivion fades before the light of Truth, and Virginia Dare
+will be a shining jewel in the Chaplet of Memories which some day
+Christian America will place upon the tomb of the Past.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+A familiar knowledge of the history of one's own country increases
+patriotism and stimulates valor. For this reason the study of written
+records called history should be supplemented by research into myths,
+folk-lore, and legends. While the value of history lies ever in its
+truth, it must yet bear the ideals of the people who participated in
+the events narrated. Tradition was the mother of all history, and was
+necessarily robed in the superstitions of the era of which the
+tradition tells. History writers, jealously guarding the truth, have
+striven to banish all traditions which seemed colored by fancy or even
+freighted with a moral lesson. These exiled traditions, bearing the
+seed-germs of truth, cannot die, but, like wandering spirits, float
+down the centuries enveloped in the mists of superstition, until
+finally, embodied in romance or song, they assume a permanent form
+called legend and become the heritage of a people. Legends are the
+satellites of history because they have their origin in the same
+events, and the history of all countries is interspersed with them.
+
+The legend of The White Doe is probably the oldest and possibly the
+least known of all the legends which relate to the history of the
+United States. It is a genuine American legend, and the facts from
+which it had its origin form the first chapter in the history of
+English colonization in North America. Those facts are found in the
+repeated attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh to establish an English colony
+in the New World. The Spaniards were in Florida, the French were in
+Nova Scotia, but England had gained no possessions in North America
+when Raleigh began his efforts. This fact assumes more importance when
+we remember that civilization has made the greatest progress in those
+parts of America where the English became dominant. In South America,
+dominated by the Spaniards, civilization has made no strides, while in
+the United States a new nation has arisen whose ultimate destiny none
+may limit or foretell. As the gates of a new century open and disclose
+almost unlimited fields for human progress, this new nation, with an
+enthusiasm and courage born of success, has taken her place to lead in
+the eternal forward search for better opportunities and higher life
+for the human race. All this grand destiny, all this ripening
+opportunity, like a harvest from a few seeds, is traced back, event
+after event, to the early struggles of those who braved the dangers of
+sea and forest in the attempts to colonize America. Those pioneer
+efforts, so generously promoted by Sir Walter Raleigh, though only
+partially successful, were the stepping-stones which later led to the
+better-known settlement of Jamestown, in Virginia. A brief _résumé_ of
+those stepping-stones will make them familiar to all.
+
+In 1584 Queen Elizabeth made a grant to Raleigh for all the land from
+Nova Scotia to Florida, which was called Virginia, in honor of the
+Virgin Queen, as Elizabeth was called.
+
+The first expedition sent out under this grant was in the same year,
+1584, and was entirely at the expense of Sir Walter Raleigh, as were
+all of the expeditions up to 1590. It was solely for the purpose of
+exploration, and was under the command of Amadas and Barlowe, who,
+after coasting along the Atlantic shores, entered Pamlico Sound and
+landed on the island of Roanoak, on the coast of the present State of
+North Carolina. They made the acquaintance of the tribes there
+resident, explored the country on the coast, and returned to England to
+bear enthusiastic testimony to the delightsomeness of the country. They
+took with them back to England two native Indian chiefs, Manteo and
+Wanchese, who returned to America on a subsequent voyage, as the
+official records tell.
+
+The following year, 1585, a colony of one hundred and seven men landed
+on this same island of Roanoak. They came organized to occupy and
+possess the land granted to Raleigh, and to secure such benefits
+therefrom as in those days were deemed valuable. They remained one
+year, exploring the country and trying to establish relations with the
+Indians. They built houses, planted crops, and looked forward to the
+arrival of more men and food, which had been promised from England. But
+no ships came, provisions grew scarce, and before the crops they had
+planted were mature enough to harvest, Sir Francis Drake, the great
+sea-rover of that day, appeared off the island with a fleet of vessels.
+
+Knowing the dangers of that coast, he did not attempt to come to the
+island, but sent in to learn of the welfare of the colony, and offered
+to supply their immediate needs. They asked, among other things, that
+their sick and weak men be taken back to England, that food for those
+who remained be given them, and for a vessel in which they might return
+home if they so desired, all of which Drake granted. But a dreadful
+storm arose, which lasted three days and drove the promised vessel out
+to sea, with a goodly number of the colonists and the promised food on
+board. Seeing thus a part of their number and their food gone, the
+remaining colonists became homesick and panic-stricken and begged Drake
+to take them _all_ to England, which he did. Thus ended the first
+attempt at English colonization in North America.
+
+Fifteen days after their departure Sir Richard Grenville arrived with
+three vessels, bringing the promised supplies, but found the men gone.
+Wishing to hold the country for England until another colony could
+arrive, he left fifteen men on the island with provisions for two
+years, and he returned to England. Those fifteen men are supposed to
+have been murdered and captured by the Indians, as the next colony
+found only some bones, a ruined fort, and empty houses in which deer
+were feeding.
+
+The leaving of those fifteen men is considered the second attempt at
+colonization, and is recognized as a failure. But all success is built
+only by persistent repetition of effort, and so, in 1587, another
+colony came from England to this same island of Roanoak. Among those
+colonists were seventeen women and nine children, thus proving the
+intention of making permanent homes, and the hope of establishing
+family ties which should for all time unite England and North America.
+A few days after the arrival of this colony at Roanoak, Virginia Dare
+was born,--she being the first child born of English parents on the
+soil of North America,--and because she was the first child born in
+Virginia she was called Virginia. Her mother, Eleanor Dare, was the
+daughter of John White, the governor of the colony, and the wife of one
+of the assistant governors.
+
+The Sunday following her birth she was baptized, this being another
+fact of official record.
+
+By Sir Walter Raleigh's command the rite of baptism had been
+administered, a few days earlier, to Manteo, an Indian chief, who had
+visited England with a returning expedition, as previously mentioned.
+This baptism of the adult Indian and of the white infant were the first
+Christian sacraments administered in North America, and are worthy of
+commemoration.
+
+The colonists soon found that to make possible and permanent their home
+in a new land many things were needed more than they had provided. So
+at their urgent request their leader, Governor White, grandfather of
+Virginia Dare, consented to return to England to secure the needed
+supplies, with which he was to return to them the following year. When
+White reached England he found war going on with Spain, and England
+threatened with an invasion by the famous Spanish Armada. His queen
+needed and demanded his services, and not until 1590--three years
+later--did he succeed in returning to America. When at last he came the
+colonists had disappeared, and the only clue to their fate was the word
+"Croatoan," which he found carved on a tree; it having been agreed
+between them that if they changed their place of abode in his absence
+they would carve on a tree the name of the place to which they had
+gone.
+
+The arrival of those colonists, the birth and baptism of Virginia Dare,
+the return of White to England, the disappearance of the colony, and
+the finding of the word Croatoan, these facts form the record of that
+colony, the disappearance of which is a mystery which history has not
+solved.
+
+But tradition illumines many periods of the past which history leaves
+in darkness, and tradition tells how this colony found among friendly
+Indians a refuge from the dangers of Roanoak Island, and how this
+infant grew into fair maidenhood, and was changed by the sorcery of a
+rejected lover into _a white doe_, which roamed the lonely island and
+bore a charmed life, and how finally true love triumphed over magic and
+restored her to human form,--only to result in the death of the maiden
+from a silver arrow shot by a cruel chieftain.
+
+This tradition of a white doe and a silver arrow has survived through
+three centuries, and not only lingers where the events occurred, but
+some portions of it are found wherever in our land forests abound and
+deer abide. From Maine to Florida lumbermen are everywhere familiar
+with an old superstition that to see a white doe is an evil omen. In
+some localities lumbermen will quit work if a white deer is seen. That
+such a creature as a white deer really exists is demonstrated by their
+capture and exhibition in menageries, and to-day the rude hunters of
+the Alleghany Mountains believe that only a silver arrow will kill a
+white deer.
+
+The disappearance of this colony has been truly called "the tragedy of
+American colonization," and around it has hung a pathetic interest
+which ever leads to renewed investigation, in the hope of solving the
+mystery. From recent search into the subject by students of history a
+chain of evidence has been woven from which it has come to be believed
+that the lost colony, hopeless of succor from England, and deprived of
+all other human associations, became a part of a tribe of friendly
+Croatoan Indians, shared their wanderings, and intermarried with them,
+and that their descendants are to be found to-day among the Croatoan
+Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina.
+
+(Those who desire to investigate this supposed solution of the mystery
+can easily secure the facts and the conclusions formed by those who
+have made a careful study of the subject.)
+
+Of course, it can never be known _certainly_ whether Virginia Dare was
+or was not of that number, but the full tradition of her life among the
+Indians is embodied in the legend of The White Doe.
+
+Much has been written about the Indian princess Pocahontas, and much
+sentiment has clustered around her association with the Jamestown
+colony, while few have given thought to the young English girl whose
+birth, baptism, and mysterious disappearance link her forever with the
+earlier tragedies of the same era of history. It seems a strange
+coincidence that the Indian maiden Pocahontas, friend and companion of
+the _White_ Man, having adopted _his_ people as her own, should sleep
+in death on English soil, while the English maiden, Virginia Dare,
+friend and companion of the _Red_ Man, having adopted his people as
+_her_ own, should sleep in death on American soil,--the two maidens
+thus exchanging nationality, and linking in life and in death the two
+countries whose destinies seem most naturally to intermingle.
+
+The scattered fragments of this legend have been carefully collected
+and woven into symmetry for preservation. Notes from authentic sources
+have been appended for the benefit of searchers into the historical
+basis of the poem, which is offered to the public with the hope that it
+may increase interest in the early history of our home land and
+strengthen the tie which binds England and the United States.
+
+                                          SALLIE SOUTHALL COTTEN.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                            PAGE
+
+FORGOTTEN FACTS AND FANCIES OF AMERICAN HISTORY                i
+
+PREFACE                                                        5
+
+PROLOGUE                                                      19
+
+THE SEEDS OF TRUTH                                            23
+
+
+THE LEGEND OF THE WHITE DOE
+
+  I.--THE REFUGEES                                            31
+
+ II.--THE PALE-FACE MAIDEN                                    42
+
+III.--SAVAGE SORCERY                                          46
+
+ IV.--THE COUNTER-CHARM                                       55
+
+  V.--THE HUNT                                                63
+
+ VI.--THE SILVER ARROW                                        72
+
+APPENDIX                                                      81
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+_1 "While within its bright'ning dimness,
+    With the misty halo 'round her,
+    Stood a beautiful white maiden"_                 FRONTISPIECE
+
+_2 A Scuppernong Vineyard, Roanoak Island_                    _x_
+
+_3 Old "Mother" Scuppernong Vine_                           _xii_
+
+_4 Among the Scuppernongs.--A Modern Vineyard_              _xiv_
+
+_5 A "Virginia Dare" Vineyard_                              _xvi_
+
+_6 The Arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia_                _23_
+
+_7 "The Fierce, Brawny Red Man is King of the Wold"_         _24_
+
+_8 The Land-of-Wind-and-Water_                               _32_
+
+_9 Man-te-o, a Chiefe Lorde of Roanoak_                      _34_
+
+_10 "Then a New Canoe he fashioned"_                         _52_
+
+_11 The Magician of Po-mou-ik_                               _58_
+
+Frontispiece from an original drawing by May Louise
+Barrett.
+
+Maps and remaining illustrations reproduced from
+Theodore de Bry's edition of "The True Pictures and
+Fashions of the People in that Parte of America now
+called Virginia," 1590.
+
+
+
+
+PROLOGUE
+
+
+In the tomb of vanished ages sleep th' ungarnered truths of Time,
+Where the pall of silence covers deeds of honor and of crime;
+Deeds of sacrifice and danger, which the careless earth forgets,
+There, in ever-deep'ning shadows, lie embalmed in mute regrets.
+Would-be-gleaners of the Present vainly grope amid this gloom;
+Flowers of Truth to be immortal must be gathered while they bloom,
+Else they pass into the Silence, man's neglect their only blight,
+And the Gleaner of the Ages stores them far from human sight.
+Yet a perfume, sweet and subtle, lingers where each flower grew,
+Rising from the shattered petals, bathed and freshened by the dew;
+And this perfume, in the twilight, forms a mist beneath the skies,
+Out of which, like airy phantoms, legends and traditions rise;
+For the Seeds of Truth are buried in a legend's inmost heart,
+To transplant them in the sunlight justifies the poet's art.
+
+[Illustration: The arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia]
+
+
+
+
+THE SEEDS OF TRUTH
+
+ROANOAK, 1587
+
+
+Shimmering waters, aweary of tossing,
+Hopeful of rest, ripple on to the shore;
+Dimpling with light, as they waver and quiver,
+Echoing faintly the ocean's wild roar.
+Locked in the arms of the tremulous waters
+Nestles an island, with beauty abloom,
+Where the warm kiss of an amorous summer
+Fills all the air with a languid perfume.
+Windward, the roar of the turbulent breakers
+Warns of the dangers of rock and of reef;
+Burdened with mem'ries of sorrowful shipwreck,
+They break on the sands in torrents of grief.
+Leeward, the forest, grown giant in greenness,
+Shelters a land where a fervid sun shines;
+Wild with the beauty of riotous nature,
+Thick with the tangles of fruit-laden vines.[A]
+From fragrant clusters, grown purple with ripeness,
+Rare, spicy odors float out to the sea,[B]
+Where the gray gulls flit with restless endeavor,
+Skimming the waves in their frolicsome glee.
+
+Out from the shore stalks the stately white heron,
+Seeking his food from the deep without fear,
+Gracefully waving wide wings as he rises
+When the canoe of the Indian draws near.
+Through reedy brake and the tangled sea-grasses
+Wander the stag and the timid-eyed doe[C]
+Down to the water's edge, watchful and wary
+For arrows that fly from the red hunter's bow.
+Fearless Red Hunter! his birthright the forest,
+Lithe as the antelope, joyous and free.
+Trusting his bow for his food and his freedom,
+Wresting a tribute from forest and sea,
+No chilling forecast of doom in the future
+Daunts his brave spirit, by freedom made bold.
+Far o'er the wildwood he roams at his pleasure,
+The fierce, brawny Red Man is king of the wold.
+
+[Illustration: "The fierce, brawny Red Man is king of the wold"]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Lo! in the offing the white sails are gleaming,
+Ships from afar to the land drawing nigh;
+Laden with men, strong and brave to meet danger,
+Stalwart of form, fair of skin, blue of eye.
+Boldly they land where the white man is alien;
+Women are with them, with hearts true and brave;
+Sadly they stand where their countrymen perished,[D]
+Seeking a home where _they_ found but a grave.
+
+Friendly red hunters greet them with kindness,
+Tell the sad tale how their countrymen died,[E]
+Beg for a token of friendship and safety,[F]
+Promise in love and in peace to abide.
+Manteo's heart glows with friendly remembrance,
+He greets them as brothers and offers good cheer;
+No thrill of welcome is felt by Wanchese,[G]
+His heart is bitter with malice and fear.
+Envying men his superiors in wisdom,
+Fearing a race his superiors in skill;
+Sullen and silent he watches the strangers,
+Whom from the first he determines to kill.
+
+Then the sign of the Cross, on the brow of the Indian,[H]
+Seals to the savage the promise of life;
+Sweet symbol of sacrifice, emblem of duty,
+Standard of Peace, though borne amidst strife:
+Draped with the sombre, stained banner of Conquest,
+Dark with the guilt of man's murder and greed,
+Yet bright with God's message of love and forgiveness
+Unto a universe welded to creed.
+
+Gently the morning breeze tosses the tree-tops,
+Low ebbs the tide on the outlying sand;
+When a tiny white babe opens eyes to the sunlight,[I]
+Heaven's sweet pledge for the weal of the land.
+Babe of the Wilderness! tenderly cherished!
+Signed with the Cross on the next Sabbath Day;
+Brave English Mother! through danger and sorrow,
+For a nation of Christians thou leadest the way.
+
+Back to the home-land, across the deep water,
+Goes the wise leader, their needs to abate;[J]
+Leaving with sorrow the babe and its mother
+In a strange land as a hostage to Fate.
+Many long months pass in busy home-making,
+Sweet English customs prevail on the isle;
+Anxious eyes watch for the ship in the offing,
+Saddened hearts droop, but the lips bravely smile.
+
+Gone are the sweet dreamy days of the summer,
+In from the ocean the winter winds shriek;
+Dangers encompass and enemies threaten,
+Mother and child other refuge must seek.
+Mother and child, as in Bethlehem story,
+Flee from the hate of their blood-thirsty foes;
+Hopeless of help from their own land and people,
+They seek friendly tribes to find rest from their woes.
+
+To the fair borders of Croatoan Island,
+Over the night-covered waters they flee;
+Seeking for safety with Manteo's people,
+Leaving the word "Croatoan" on a tree.[K]
+Name of the refuge in which they sought shelter,
+Only the name of a tribe, nothing more;[L]
+Sign whereby those who would seek them might follow
+To their new home on the Croatoan's shore.
+
+Why did they leave the rude fort they had builded?
+Why did they seek far away a new home?
+O innocent babe! Roanoak's lost nestling!
+How shall we learn where thy footsteps did roam?
+'Mid the rude tribes of the primeval forest,
+Bearing the signet of Christ on thy brow,
+Wert thou the teacher and guide of the savage?
+Who, of thy mission, can aught tell us now?
+Through the dim ages comes only the perfume,
+Left where the flowers of Truth fell to earth;
+With ne'er a gleaner to treasure the blossoms,
+Save the sweet petals of baptism and birth.
+Vainly we seek on Time's shore for thy footprints,
+Hid in a mist of pathos is thy fate;
+Yet of a life under savage enchantment
+Quaint Indian legends do strangely relate.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote A: See Appendix, Note _a_.]
+
+[Footnote B: See Appendix, Note _b_.]
+
+[Footnote C: See Appendix, Note _c_.]
+
+[Footnote D: See Appendix, Note _d_.]
+
+[Footnote E: See Appendix, Note _e_.]
+
+[Footnote F: See Appendix, Note _e_.]
+
+[Footnote G: Pronounced Wan-chess-e.]
+
+[Footnote H: See Appendix, Note _f_.]
+
+[Footnote I: See Appendix, Note _g_.]
+
+[Footnote J: See Appendix, Note _h_.]
+
+[Footnote K: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote L: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+
+
+
+THE LEGEND OF THE WHITE DOE
+
+
+
+
+I
+
+THE REFUGEES
+
+
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water,
+Loud the sea bemoaned its sameness;
+Dashing shoreward with impatience
+To explore the landward mysteries.
+On the sand the waves spread boldly,
+Vainly striving to reach higher;
+Then abashed by vain ambition,
+Glided to their ordained duty.
+There the pine-tree, tall and stately,
+Whispered low the ocean's murmur;
+Strove to soothe the restless waters
+With its lullaby of sighing.
+There the tall and dank sea-grasses,
+From the storm-tide gathered secrets
+Of the caverns filled with treasures,
+Milky pearls and tinted coral,
+Stores of amber and of jacinth,
+In the caves festooned with sea-weed,
+Where the Sea-King held his revels
+And the Naiads danced in beauty.
+In this Land-of-Wind-and-Water,
+Dowered with the sunshine's splendor,
+Juicy grapes grew in profusion,
+Draping all the trees with greenness,
+And the maize grew hard and yellow,
+With the sunshine in its kernels.
+Through the forest roamed the black bear,
+And the red deer boldly herded;
+Through the air flew birds of flavor,
+And the sea was full of fishes,
+Till the Red Man knew no hunger,
+And his wigwam hung with trophies.
+
+[Illustration: The Land-of-Wind-and-Water]
+
+There brave Man-te-o, the Faithful,
+Ruled the Cro-a-to-ans with firmness,
+Dwelt in peace beside the waters,
+Smoked his pipe beneath the pine-tree,
+Gazed with pride upon his bear-skins
+Which hung ready for the winter.
+Told his people all the marvels
+Of the Land-of-the-Pale-Faces;
+Of the ships with wings like sea-birds
+Wherein he had crossed the water;[M]
+Of the Pale-Face Weroanza[N]
+Whom he saw in her own country;
+Of her robes of silken texture,
+Of her wisdom and her power;
+Told them of her warlike people
+And their ships which breathed the lightning.
+How he pledged with them a friendship,
+Hoping they would come to teach him
+How to make his people mighty,
+How to make them strong in battle
+So the other tribes would fear them.
+And the dream of future greatness
+Filled the Cro-a-to-ans with courage;
+And their hearts grew warm and friendly
+To the race of white-faced strangers.
+
+When bold white men came among them,
+To the isle of Ro-a-no-ak,
+Man-te-o, the friendly Weroance,
+Faithful proved to all his pledges.
+Smoked with them the pipe of friendship,
+Took their God to be his Father;
+Took upon his swarthy forehead
+Their strange emblem of salvation,[O]
+Emblem of the One Great Spirit,
+Father of all tribes and nations.
+Man-te-o, the friend and brother,
+Bade them fear the false Wan-ches-e,
+And the Weroance Win-gin-a,
+Whose hearts burned with bitter hatred
+For the men they feared in combat,
+For the strangers who defied them.
+
+[Illustration: Man-te-o, a chiefe lorde of Roanoak]
+
+When the Pale-Face, weak and hungry,
+Feeble from continued labor,
+Shivered in the blasts of winter
+Which blew cold across the water,
+Then Wan-ches-e planned their ruin,
+With Win-gin-a sought to slay them.
+
+To the isle of Ro-a-no-ak,
+Where the Pale-Face slept unguarded,
+Sped the swift canoes of Red Men,
+Gliding through the silent shadows.
+As the sky grew red with dawning,[P]
+While they dreamed of home and kindred,
+Suddenly with whoop of murder
+Wily Indians swarmed around them.
+
+Skill of Pale-Face, craft of Red Man,
+Met in fierce, determined battle;
+While within the Fort called Ralegh
+Many arrows fell, like raindrops.
+Arrows tipped with serpent's poison,
+Arrows tipped with blazing rosin,
+Winged with savage thirst for murder,
+Aimed with cruel skill to torture.
+Threatened by the blazing roof-tree
+Then the Pale-Face crouched in terror;
+Saw the folly of resistance,
+Feared his doom, and fled for safety.
+
+Man-te-o, alert for danger,
+From afar saw signs of conflict;
+Saw the waves of smoke ascending
+Heavenward, like prayers for rescue.
+Swift, with boats and trusty warriors,
+Crossed he then to Ro-a-no-ak;
+Strong to help his Pale-Face brothers,
+Faithful to his friendly pledges.
+
+As the daylight slowly faded,
+Hopeless of the bloody struggle,
+Stealthily the Pale-Face warriors
+Fled with Man-te-o's brave people.
+Left they then the Fort called Ralegh,
+Left the dead within its stockade;
+Sought another island refuge,
+Hoping there to rest in safety.
+
+Man-te-o sought for the mother,[Q]
+She with babe there born and nurtured
+'Neath the shadow of disaster,
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water.
+"Come," said he, "the darkness falleth,
+All your people must flee henceward;
+Wan-ches-e will show no mercy,
+You must not become his captive.
+Take the papoose from thy bosom,
+Call the white chief whom thou lovest,
+Haste with me upon the flood-tide
+To my wigwam on Wo-ko-kon."
+
+Noiseless, she amid the conflict
+Sought her heart's mate to flee with her;
+Useless all the strife and courage,
+Useless all the rude home-making;
+Shrine for worship, fort for safety,
+Hope of future peace and plenty,
+All were vain; yet life we cherish,
+Far above all boons we hold it:
+So she hastened on her mission
+For the life of self and loved ones.
+
+As they neared the island border,
+Pale-Face husband, child, and mother,
+Man-te-o in silence leading,
+Every sense alive to danger,
+Suddenly the Pale-Face father
+Thought him of the parting caution
+Given by their absent leader:
+If they fled in search of safety
+On a tree to leave a token,
+Whereby he might surely find them,
+In the land which gave them shelter,
+When he came again to seek them.[R]
+
+By his side a sturdy live-oak
+Spread its green, protecting branches;
+Quick he strove to carve the token
+Which should speak to all who followed.
+C. R. O., in bold, plain letters[S]
+Cut he in the tree's firm body,
+When a random, poisoned arrow
+Pierced his heart, and he fell lifeless.
+
+With a smothered cry of horror,
+In an agony of sorrow,
+She would fain have lingered near him,
+But that Man-te-o urged onward.
+If discovered, flight was futile,
+Weakness now meant worse disaster;
+She must save her helpless baby
+Though her heart be rent with anguish.
+
+Frantic with love's desolation,
+Strong with thoughts of home and father,
+With a woman's wondrous calmness
+When great peril calls for action,
+Safe she placed the sleeping infant
+'Cross the brawny arms of Man-te-o,
+While with knife drawn from his girdle
+Carved she on another live-oak
+Plain, the one word "CROATOAN"[T]
+As a sign to all her people.
+Trusting all to savage friendship,
+Cutting hope with every letter,
+Praying God to guide her father
+To the haven she was seeking.
+
+Trust is woman's strongest bulwark,
+All true manhood yields unto it.
+As her sad eyes turned upon him
+Man-te-o was moved with pity
+For the brave and tender woman,
+Friendless in the land without him.
+
+On the brow of Pale-Face baby
+First he made the Holy Cross-Sign;
+Then upon the sad-eyed mother
+Traced the sign her people taught him;
+Then again the sacred symbol
+Outlined on his own dark forehead;
+And with open hand uplifted
+Sealed his promise of protection;
+Linking thus his pledge of safety
+With her faith in Unseen Power.
+
+Mute with grief, she trusted in him;
+In his boat they crossed the water,
+While the night fell like a mantle
+Spread in mercy to help save them.
+
+When in Cro-a-to-an they landed,
+There they found the few survivors
+Of that day of doom to many,
+Glad once more to greet each other.
+Man-te-o within his wigwam
+From the cold wind gave them shelter,
+Shared with them his furry bear-skins,
+Made them warm, and warmth gave courage
+To meet life's relentless duties.
+
+Then he summoned all the people,
+Called the old men and the young men,
+Bade the squaws to come and listen,
+Showed the papoose to the women.
+They gazed on its tender whiteness,
+Stroked the mother's flaxen tresses;
+"'Tis a snow-papoose" they whispered,
+"It will melt when comes the summer."
+
+Man-te-o said to the warriors:
+"Ye all know these Pale-Face people
+Whom Wan-ches-e sought to murder,
+They have often made us welcome.
+Brave their hearts, but few are living,
+If left friendless these will perish;
+We have store of corn and venison,
+They are hungry, let us feed them;
+They have lightning for their arrows,
+Let them teach us how to shoot it.
+They with us shall search the forest,
+And our game shall be abundant;
+Let them teach us their strange wisdom
+And become with us one people."
+
+And the old men, grave in counsel,
+And the young men, mute with deference,
+While the uppowoc[U] was burning,
+Pondered on his words thus spoken,
+And to Man-te-o gave answer:
+"All your words are full of wisdom;
+We will share with them our venison,
+They shall be as our own people."
+
+From the isle of Ro-a-no-ak
+Thus the Pale-Face fled for succor,
+Thus in Cro-a-to-an's fair borders
+Found a home with friendly Red Men.
+Nevermore to see white faces,
+Nevermore to see their home-land,
+Yet to all the future ages
+Sending proof of honest daring;
+Forging thus a link of effort
+In the chain of human progress.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote M: See Appendix, Note _l_.]
+
+[Footnote N: Queen Elizabeth.]
+
+[Footnote O: See Appendix, Note _f_.]
+
+[Footnote P: See Appendix, Note _m_.]
+
+[Footnote Q: Eleanor Dare.]
+
+[Footnote R: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote S: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote T: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote U: Tobacco.]
+
+
+
+
+II
+
+THE PALE-FACE MAIDEN
+
+
+Nature feels no throb of pity,
+Makes no pause for human heartbreak;
+Though with agony we quiver,
+She gives forth no sign of feeling.
+Waxed and waned the moon, in season,
+Ebbed and flowed the tides obedient;
+Summers filled the land with plenty,
+Winters chilled the summers' ardor.
+No winged ships gleamed in the offing;
+No Pale-Faces sought their kindred;
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water
+Roamed the Red Man unmolested.
+
+While the babe of Ro-a-no-ak
+Grew in strength and wondrous beauty;
+Like a flower of the wildwood,
+Bloomed beside the Indian maidens.
+And Wi-no-na Skâ[V] they called her,
+She of all the maidens fairest.
+In the tangles of her tresses
+Sunbeams lingered, pale and yellow;
+In her eyes the limpid blueness
+Of the noonday sky was mirrored.
+And the squaws of darksome features
+Smiled upon her fair young beauty;
+Felt their woman hearts within them
+Warming to the Pale-Face maiden.
+And the braves, who scorned all weakness,
+Listened to her artless prattle,
+While their savage natures softened,
+Of the change themselves unconscious.
+
+Like the light of summer morning
+Beaming on a world in slumber
+Was the face of young Wi-no-na
+To the Cro-a-to-ans who loved her.
+She, whose mind bore in its dawning
+Impress of developed races,
+To the rude, untutored savage
+Seemed divinely 'dowed with reason.
+She, the heir of civilization,
+They, the slaves of superstition,
+Gave to her a silent rev'rence,
+Growing better with such giving.
+Oft she told them that the Cross-Sign,
+Made by Man-te-o before them
+When he talked to his own nation,
+Was the symbol of a Spirit
+Great, and good, and wise, and loving;
+He who kept the maize-fields fruitful,
+He who filled the sea with fishes,
+He who made the sun to warm them
+And sent game to feed His children.
+
+If, when in their games or councils,
+They grew quarrelsome and angry,
+Suddenly among them standing
+Was a maiden like the sunrise,
+Making with her taper finger
+This strange sign which they respected;
+And without a word of pleading
+Strife and wrath would no more vex them,
+While the influence of her presence
+Lingered 'round them like enchantment.
+
+Thus the babe of Ro-a-no-ak
+Grew to be the joy and teacher
+Of a tribe of native heathen
+In the land which gave her shelter.
+And the tide of her affections
+Flowed to those who gave her friendship;
+Whom alone she knew as human,
+Whom to her became as kindred.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote V: Literally, "first-born white daughter."]
+
+
+
+
+III
+
+SAVAGE SORCERY
+
+
+Man-to-ac, the Mighty Father,
+When he filled the earth with blessings,
+Deep within the heart of Woman
+Hid the burning Need-of-Loving;
+Which through her should warm the ages
+With a flame of mutual feeling,
+Throbbing through her sons and daughters
+With a force beyond their power.
+And this law of human loving,
+Changeless through unending changes,
+Fills each living heart with yearning
+For another heart to love it;
+And against this ceaseless craving
+Creed, nor clime, nor color standeth;
+Heart to heart all nature crieth
+That the earth may thrill with gladness.
+
+So the young braves of the nation,
+Thrilled with love for fair Wi-no-na,
+Made rude ornaments to please her,
+Laid the red deer at her wigwam.
+Brought her skins of furry rabbits
+Soft and white as her own skin was;
+Robbed the black bear and the otter
+That her bed might soft and warm be.
+And the children of the forest
+Were uplifted by such loving
+Of a higher type of being,
+Who yet throbbed with human instincts.
+
+Brave O-kis-ko loved the maiden
+With a love which made him noble;
+With the love that self-forgetting
+Fills the soul with higher impulse.
+As the sun with constant fervor,
+Heat and light to earth bestowing,
+Seeks for no return of blessing,
+Feels no loss for all his giving,
+So O-kis-ko loved Wi-no-na,
+Gave her all his heart's rude homage,
+Felt no loss for all his giving,
+Loved her for the joy of loving.
+Scorned he all fatigue and danger
+Which would bring her food or pleasure;
+And each day brought proof of fealty,
+For his deeds were more than language.
+
+For her sake he tried to fasten
+To his rude canoe white pinions
+Like the winged ships of the white man,
+That with her he might sail boldly
+Out towards the rosy sunrise,
+Seeking for her lost grandsire[W]
+For whose coming her heart saddened.
+Though his red companions mocked him,
+His endeavor pleased the maiden,
+And her eyes beamed kindly on him,
+Though no passion stirred her pulses.
+For sweet maiden hopes and fancies
+Filled her life with happy dreaming
+Ere her woman's heart awakened
+To O-kis-ko's patient waiting.
+Waiting for her eyes to brighten
+'Neath the ardor of his glances;
+Waiting for her soul to quicken
+With the answer to his longing;
+Finding sweet content in silence,
+Glad each day to see and serve her.
+
+Now old Chi-co, the Magician,
+Also loved the fair Wi-no-na,
+All his youth to him returning
+As he gazed upon her beauty.
+In his wigwam pelt of gray wolf,
+Antlers of the deer and bison,
+Hung to prove his deeds of valor;
+And he wooed the gentle maiden
+With his cunning tales of prowess.
+
+She would not rebuke his boasting,
+Fearful lest her words offend him;
+For her nature kind and loving
+Could not scorn the vaunting Chi-co.
+
+When he walked among the maidens,
+Gay with paint and decked with feathers,
+She would look on him with kindness
+That the others might not scoff him;
+She would smile upon his weakness,
+Though she did not wish to wed him.
+
+Chi-co's love was fierce as fire
+Which from flame yields only ashes;
+Which gives not for joy of giving,
+But demands unceasing tribute,
+More and more to feed its craving.
+He grew eager and impatient,
+He would share with none her favor;
+All for him her eyes must brighten,
+Else his frown would blight her pleasure.
+
+When the young men played or wrestled,
+If O-kis-ko came out victor;
+Or returning with the hunters
+He it was who bore the stag home;
+If with eyes abrim with pleasure
+Sweet Wi-no-na smiled upon him,
+Or with timid maiden shyness
+Drooped her eyes beneath his glances,
+Then old Chi-co's heart would wither
+With the fire of jealous fury,
+Till at length in bitter anger
+He determined none should win her,
+As from him she turned in coldness.
+
+Wrapped in silence grim and sullen,
+Much he wandered near the water;
+With his soul he took dark counsel,
+Seeking for devices cruel
+For the torture of his rival
+And destruction of the maiden.
+
+Though he rarely used his power,
+Chi-co was a great magician.
+He knew all the spells of starlight
+And the link 'tween moon and water;
+Knew the language of lost spirits
+And the secret of their power;
+Knew the magic words and symbols
+Whereby man may conquer nature.
+
+Long he plotted,--much he brooded,
+While he gathered from the water
+Mussel-pearls all streaked and piedèd,[X]
+All with rays like purple halos.
+
+Such pearls are the souls of Naiads
+Who have disobeyed the Sea-King,
+And in mussel-shells are prisoned
+For this taint of human frailty.
+When by man released from durance
+These souls, grateful for their freedom,
+Are his slaves, and ever render
+Good or evil at his bidding.
+
+Chi-co steeped each one he gathered
+In a bath of mystic brewing;
+Told each purple, piedèd pearl-drop
+What the evil was he plotted.
+Never once his purpose wavered,
+Never once his fury lessened;
+Nursing vengeance as a guerdon
+While the mussel-pearls he polished.
+
+Then a new canoe he fashioned,
+Safe, and strong, and deep he made it;[Y]
+And then sought to work his magic
+On the innocent Wi-no-na;
+Asked the maiden to go with him
+In his boat across the water.
+"Come," said he, "to Ro-a-no-ak,
+Where the waves are white with blossoms,
+Where the grapes hang ripe in clusters,
+Come with me and drink their juices."
+
+[Illustration: "Then a new canoe he fashioned"]
+
+And the innocent Wi-no-na
+Listened to his artful pleading;
+Went with him in search of pleasure,
+Glad to show him friendly feeling.
+
+While with idle stroke they floated
+To the fragrant lily-blossoms,
+He a string of pearls gave to her,
+Smooth and polished, pied and purple.
+'Round her snowy neck she placed them
+With no thought of harm or cunning;
+And with simple, maiden speeches
+Filled the time as they sped onward.
+
+To each pearl had Chi-co chanted,
+Each had bathed in mystic water,
+Each held fast the same weird power,
+Till the time grew ripe for evil.
+On the waves they could not harm her,
+There the Sea-King ruled them ever;
+But when on the shore she landed
+They would work their evil mission.
+
+On the shore of Ro-a-no-ak
+Chi-co sent his boat with vigor.
+Lithe and happy she sprang shoreward,
+When,--from where her foot first lightly
+Pressed the sand with human imprint,--
+On--away--towards the thicket,
+Sprang _a White Doe_, fleet and graceful.
+
+His revenge thus wrought in safety,
+Drifting seaward Chi-co chanted:
+"Go, White Doe, hide in the forest,
+Feed upon the sweet wild-grasses;
+No winged arrow e'er shall harm you,
+No Red Hunter e'er shall win you;
+Roam forever, fleet and fearless,
+Living free and yet in fetters."
+
+O fair maiden! born and nurtured
+'Neath the shadow of disaster!
+Isle of Fate was Ro-a-no-ak,
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water.
+Nevermore to fill with gladness
+The sad heart of stricken mother;
+Nevermore to hear the wooing
+Of the brave and true O-kis-ko.
+Gone thy charm of youthful beauty,
+Gone thy sway o'er savage natures;
+Doomed to flee before the hunter,
+Doomed to roam the lonely island,
+Doomed to bondage e'en in freedom.
+Is the seal of doom eternal?
+Hath the mussel-pearl all power?
+Cannot _love_ thy fetters loosen?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote W: Governor White, of the lost colony.]
+
+[Footnote X: See Appendix, Note _n_.]
+
+[Footnote Y: See Appendix, Note _o_.]
+
+
+
+
+IV
+
+THE COUNTER-CHARM
+
+
+Man-te-o and all his warriors
+Long and far sought for Wi-no-na;
+Sought to find the sky-eyed maiden
+Sent by Man-to-ac, the Mighty,
+To the Cro-a-to-ans to bless them,
+And to make them wise and happy.
+As a being more than mortal,
+As a deity they held her;
+And when no more seen among them
+Lamentations filled the island.
+Through Wo-ko-kon's sandy stretches,
+Through the bog-lands of Po-mou-ik,
+Even unto Das-a-mon-que-peu,
+Hunted they the missing maiden;
+If perchance some other nation,
+Envious of their peace and plenty,
+Had the maiden boldly captured,
+For themselves to win her power.
+Louder grew their lamentations
+When they found no trail to follow;
+Wilder grew their threats of vengeance
+'Gainst the tribe which held her captive.
+
+While they wailed the Pale-Face Mother,
+She who once was brave for love's sake,
+Weak from hardships new and wearing,
+Utterly bereft of kindred,
+Her heart's comfort thus torn from her,
+Died beneath her weight of sorrow.
+And a pity, soft and human,
+Though he knew no name to call it,
+Thrilled the Red Man as he laid her
+'Neath the forest leaves to slumber.
+
+But the wary, wily Chi-co
+Told his secret unto no one,
+While he listened to the stories,
+Strange and true, told by the hunters
+Of a fleet and graceful White Doe
+On the banks of Ro-a-no-ak.
+And the hunters said, no arrow
+Howsoever aimed could reach her;
+Said the deer herd round her gathered,
+And where e'er she led they followed.
+
+The old women of the nation
+Heard the tales about this White Doe.
+Children they of superstition,
+With their faith firm in enchantment,
+Linked the _going_ of the maiden
+With the _coming_ of the White Doe.
+They believed in magic powers,
+They knew Chi-co's hopeless passion,
+So they shook their heads and whispered,
+Looked mysterious at each other,
+"Ho," they whispered to each other,
+"Chi-co is a great Magician,
+Chi-co should go hunt this White Doe;
+He is not too old for loving;
+Love keeps step with Youth and Courage;
+Old age should not make him tremble.
+Timid is a doe, and gentle
+Like a maiden,--like Wi-no-na.
+Oho! Oho!" and they chuckled,
+Casting dark looks at old Chi-co,
+"He," said they, "has 'witched our maiden."
+
+When O-kis-ko heard the whispers
+Of the garrulous old women,
+Glad belief he gave unto them
+That the Doe on Ro-a-no-ak
+Was in truth the Pale-Face Maiden
+Wrung from him by cruel magic.
+He was not a gabbling boaster,
+He could think and act in silence;
+And alone he roamed the island
+Seeking this White Doe to capture,
+So that he might tame and keep her
+Near him to assuage his sorrow.
+
+All in vain,--no hand could touch her.
+All in vain,--no hunter won her.
+Up the dunes of Ro-a-no-ak
+Still she led the herd of wild deer.
+
+Then O-kis-ko sought We-nau-don,
+The Magician of Po-mou-ik.[Z]
+Gave him store of skins and wampum,
+Promised all his greed demanded,
+If he would restore the maiden,
+Break the spell which held her spirit.
+
+[Illustration: The magician of Po-mou-ik]
+
+In his heart We-nau-don cherished
+Hatred for his rival Chi-co
+For some boyhood's cause of anger,
+For defeat in public wrestling;
+And because of this he welcomed
+Now the time to vent his malice.
+So he promised from enchantment
+To release the captive maiden.
+
+In the days of pristine nature,
+In the dells of Ro-a-no-ak,
+Bubbling from the earth's dark caverns,
+Was a spring of magic water.
+There the Naiads held their revels,
+There in secret met their lovers;
+And they laid a spell upon it
+Which should make true lovers happy;
+For to them true love was precious.
+
+He who drank of it at midnight
+When the Harvest Moon was brightest,
+Using as a drinking-vessel
+Skull-bowl of his greatest rival
+Killed in open, honest combat,
+And by summer sunshine whitened,
+He gained youth perennial from it
+And the heart he wished to love him.
+
+He who bathed within its waters,
+Having killed a dove while moaning,
+And had killed no other creature
+Since three crescent moons had rounded;
+Vowing to be kind and helpful
+To the sad and weary-hearted:
+He received the magic power
+To undo all spells of evil
+Which divided faithful lovers.
+
+In this spring had bathed We-nau-don,
+And he held its secrets sacred;
+But a feeling ever moved him
+To make glad the heavy-hearted.
+So he showed unto O-kis-ko
+Where to find the magic water;
+With this counter-charm, he told him
+How to free the charmed Wi-no-na:
+
+"In a shark's tooth, long and narrow
+In a closely wrought triangle,
+Set three mussel-pearls of purple,
+Smooth and polished with much rubbing.
+To an arrow of witch-hazel,
+New, and fashioned very slender,
+Set the shark's tooth, long and narrow,
+With its pearl-inlaid triangle.
+From the wing of living heron
+Pluck one feather, white and trusty;
+With this feather wing the arrow,
+That it swerve not as it flyeth.
+Fashioned thus with care and caution,
+Let no mortal eye gaze on it;
+Tell no mortal of your purpose;
+Secretly at sunset place it
+In the spring of magic water.
+Let it rest there through three sunsets,
+Then when sunrise gilds the tree-tops
+Take it dripping from the water,
+At the rising sun straight point it,
+While three times these words repeating:
+_Mussel-pearl arrow, to her heart go;
+Loosen the fetters which bind the White Doe;
+Bring the lost maiden back to O-kis-ko._
+With this arrow hunt the White Doe,
+Have no timid fear of wounding;
+When her heart it enters boldly
+Chi-co's charm will melt before it."
+
+Every word O-kis-ko heeded,
+Hope, once dead, now cheered his spirit.
+From the sea three pearls he gathered;
+From the thicket brought witch-hazel
+For the making of the arrow;
+From the heron's wing a feather
+Plucked to true its speed in flying.
+Patiently he cut and labored,
+As for love's sake man will labor;
+Shaped the arrow, new and slender,
+Set the pearls into the shark's tooth,
+Fastened firm the heron's feather,
+With a faith which mastered reason.
+In the magic spring he steeped it,
+Watching lest some eye should see it;
+Through three sunsets steeped and watched it;
+Three times o'er the charm repeated
+While the sunrise touched the tree-tops;
+Then prepared to test its power.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote Z: See Appendix, Note _s_.]
+
+
+
+
+V
+
+THE HUNT
+
+
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water
+Long the Summer-Glory lingered,
+Loath to yield its ripened beauty
+To the cold embrace of Winter.
+And the greenness of the forest
+Gave no sign of coming treason,
+Till the White Frost without warning
+Hung his banners from the tree-tops.
+Then a blush of brilliant color
+Decked each shrub with tinted beauty;
+Gold, and brown, and scarlet mingled
+Till no color seemed triumphant;
+And the Summer doomed to exile
+Fled before the chilling Autumn.
+
+While the glow of colors deepened,
+The proud Weroance Win-gin-a,
+Chief of Das-a-mon-gue-pue land,
+Made a feast for all his people;
+Called them forth with bow and arrow
+To a test of skill and valor.
+He was weary of the mysteries
+Whispered of the famous White Doe,
+Whose strange courage feared no hunter,
+For no arrow ever reached her.
+"Ha!" said he, "a skilful hunter
+Is not daunted by a white doe;
+Craven hearts make trembling fingers,
+Arrows fail when shot by cowards.
+_I_ will shoot this doe so fearless,
+Her white skin shall be my mantle,[AA]
+Her white meat shall serve for feasting,
+And my braves shall cease from fearing.
+From the fields the maize invites us,
+Sturgeons have been fat and plenty.
+We are weary of fish-eating,
+We will feast on meat of white deer."
+
+Messengers of invitation
+Sent he to the other nations,
+Saying, "Come and hunt the White Doe,
+Bring your surest, fleetest arrows;
+We will eat the meat of white deer,
+We will drink the purple grape-juice,
+Burn the uppowoc in pipe-bowls,
+While we shame the trembling hunters."
+
+But the Cro-a-to-ans kept silence,
+Sent no answer to his greeting.
+They believed the charmèd White Doe
+Was Wi-no-na Skâ's pure spirit,
+Who in freedom still was happy,
+And they would not wound or harm her,
+They would shoot no arrows at her,
+Nor help feast upon her body.
+
+Then O-kis-ko answered boldly;
+"I will go and hunt this White Doe,
+I will shoot from my own ambush,
+I will take my fleetest arrow."
+And the men and women wondered,
+For they knew his former loving.
+
+But O-kis-ko kept his secret,
+Showed no one his new-made arrow;
+'Round his shoulders threw a mantle
+Made of skins of many sea-gulls,
+So that he could hide his arrow,
+And no mortal eye could see it
+Till he sent it on its mission
+Winged with magic, fraught with mercy.
+
+Thus he went to Ro-a-no-ak,
+Love, and hope, and faith impelling,
+Conscious of his aim unerring,
+Trusting in the arrow's power.
+
+From Po-mou-ik came Wan-ches-e,
+For the hunt and feast impatient,
+Boasting of his skill and valor,
+Saying in his loud vainglory:
+"I will teach the braves to shoot deer,
+Young men now are not great hunters,
+Hearts like squaws they have within them,
+Nothing fears them but a papoose."
+
+Wan-ches-e had crossed the water[AB]
+In the ships with wings like sea-birds,
+And the Pale-Face Weroanza,
+Whom he saw in her own country,
+Him to please and show her friendship,
+Gave an arrow-head of silver
+To him as a mark of favor.
+
+This he now brought proudly with him,
+As of all his arrows fleetest;
+Bearing in its lustrous metal,
+As he thought, some gift of power
+From the mighty Weroanza
+Which would bring success unto him;
+And the warriors all would praise him
+As around the feast they gathered,
+Saying as he walked among them:
+"There is none like brave Wan-ches-e,
+He can bend the bow with firmness,
+He has arrow-points of silver,
+And the White Doe falls before him."
+And he polished well the arrow
+Which he thought would bring him praises.
+
+Where the deer were wont to wander
+All the hunters took their stations,
+While the stalkers sought the forest,
+From its depths to start the deer-herd.
+
+Near the shore Win-gin-a lingered
+That he first might shoot his arrow,
+And thus have the certain glory
+Of the White Doe's death upon him.
+
+By a pine-tree stood Wan-ches-e
+With his silver arrow ready;
+While O-kis-ko, unseen, waited
+Near by in his chosen ambush,
+Where he oft had watched the White Doe,
+Where he knew she always lingered.
+
+Soon the stalkers with great shouting
+Started up the frightened red deer;
+On they came through brake and thicket,
+In the front the White Doe leading,
+With fleet foot and head uplifted,
+Daring all the herd to follow.
+
+Easy seemed the task of killing,
+So Win-gin-a twanged his bow-string,
+But his arrow fell beside her
+As she sprang away from danger.
+
+Through the tanglewood, still onward,
+Head uplifted, her feet scorning
+All the wealth of bright-hued foliage
+Which lay scattered in her pathway.
+Up the high sand-dunes she bounded,
+In her wake the whole herd followed,
+While the arrows aimed from ambush
+Fell around her ever harmless.
+
+On she sped, towards the water,
+Nostrils spread to sniff the sea-breeze;
+Through the air a whizzing arrow
+Flew, but did not touch the White Doe;
+But a stag beside her bounding
+Wounded fell among the bushes,
+And the herd fled in confusion,
+Waiting now not for the leader.
+
+On again, with leaping footsteps,
+Tossing head turned to the sea-shore;
+For one fatal minute standing
+Where the White Man's Fort had once stood;
+In her eyes came wistful gleamings
+Like a lost hope's fleeting shadow.
+
+While with graceful poise she lingered,
+Swift, Wan-ches-e shot his arrow
+Aimed with cruel thought to kill her;
+While from near and secret ambush,
+With unerring aim, O-kis-ko
+Forward sent his magic arrow,
+Aimed with thought of love and mercy.
+
+To her heart straight went _both_ arrows,
+And with leap of pain she bounded
+From the earth, and then fell forward,
+Prone, amidst the forest splendor.
+O-kis-ko, with fond heart swelling,
+Wan-ches-e, with pride exultant,
+To the Doe both sprang to claim it,
+Each surprised to see the other.
+
+Suddenly, within the forest,
+Spread a gleaming mist around them,
+Like a dense white fog in summer,
+So they scarce could grope their pathway.
+Slowly, as if warmed by sunbeams,
+From one spot the soft mist melted,
+While within its bright'ning dimness,
+With the misty halo 'round her,
+Stood a beautiful white maiden,--
+_Stood the gentle, lost Wi-no-na_.
+
+Through her heart two arrows crosswise
+Pierced the flesh with cruel wounding;
+Downward flowed the crimson blood-tide,
+Staining red the snow-white doe-skin
+Which with grace her form enveloped,
+While her arms with pleading gesture
+To O-kis-ko were outstretching.
+
+As they gazed upon the vision,
+All their souls with wonder filling;
+While the white mist slowly melted,
+_Prostrate fell the wounded maiden_.
+
+Then revealed was all the myst'ry,
+Then they saw what had befallen.
+To her heart the magic arrow
+First had pierced, and lo! Wi-no-na
+Once more breathed in form of maiden.
+
+But while yet the charm was passing
+Came the arrow of Wan-ches-e;
+To her heart it pierced unerring,
+Pierced the pearl-inlaid triangle,
+Struck and broke the shark's tooth narrow,
+_Charm and counter-charm undoing_;
+Leaving but a mortal maiden
+Wounded past the hope of healing.
+
+Woe to love, and hope, and magic!
+Woe to hearts whom death divideth!
+While upon her bleeding bosom
+Fatal arrows made the Cross-Sign,
+Wistful eyes she turned to Heaven;
+"O forget not your Wi-no-na,"
+Whispered she unto O-kis-ko,
+As her soul passed to the silence.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote AA: See Appendix, Note _p_.]
+
+[Footnote AB: See Appendix, Note _l_.]
+
+
+
+
+VI
+
+THE SILVER ARROW
+
+
+Fear seized on the bold Wan-ches-e
+When he saw the Pale-Face maiden
+Standing where had poised the White Doe,
+Where the White Man's Fort had once stood.
+He knew naught of magic arrows,
+Nor O-kis-ko's secret mission;
+He saw only his own arrow
+Piercing through her tender bosom,
+Never doubting but the wonder
+Which his awe-struck eyes had witnessed
+Had been wrought by his own arrow,
+Silver arrow from a far land,
+Fashioned by the skill of Pale-Face,
+Gift of Pale-Face Weroanza
+To a race she willed to conquer.
+
+All his hatred of the Pale-Face,
+Fed by fear and superstition,
+To him made this sudden vision
+Seem an omen of the future,
+When the Red Man, like the White Doe,
+Should give place unto the Pale-Face,
+And the Indian, like the white mist,
+Fade from out his native forest.
+All his courage seemed to weaken
+With the dread of dark disaster;
+And with instincts strong for safety
+Fled he from the place in terror.
+
+Love hath not the fear of danger,
+And O-kis-ko's faith in magic
+Kept him brave to meet the changes
+Which had each so quickly followed.
+For he saw the human maiden
+Where had stood the living White Doe;
+And he knew his hazel arrow,
+Charmed with all We-nau-don's magic,
+Had restored the lost Wi-no-na
+To reward his patient loving.
+
+But the conflict of _two_ arrows,
+Bringing death unto the maiden,
+Was a deep and darksome myst'ry
+Which his ignorance could not fathom.
+All the cause of his undoing
+Saw he in the silver arrow;
+So with true love's tireless effort,
+Quick he strove to break its power.
+
+From her heart he plucked the arrow,
+Hastened to the magic water,
+Hoping to destroy the evil
+Which had stilled the maiden's pulses.
+In the sparkling spring he laid it
+So no spot was left uncovered,
+So the full charm of the water
+Might act on the blood-stained arrow.
+
+As the blood-stains from it melted,
+Blood of Pale-Face shed by Red Man,
+Slowly, while he watched and waited,
+_All the sparkling water vanished;_
+Dry became the magic fountain,
+Leaving bare the silver arrow.
+
+Was it thus the spell would weaken
+Which had wrought his love such evil?
+Would she be again awakened
+When he sought her in the thicket?
+Must he shoot this arrow at her
+To restore her throbbing pulses?
+Must he seek again We-nau-don
+To make warm her icy beauty?
+
+While he of himself sought guidance,
+Sought to know the hidden meaning
+Of the mysteries he witnessed;
+Lo! another mystic wonder
+Met his eyes as he sat musing.
+
+From the arrow made by Pale-Face,
+As th' enchanted water left it,
+Sprang a tiny shoot with leaflets
+Pushing upward to the sunlight.
+
+Did the arrow dry the fountain
+With the blight of death it carried?
+Or in going, had the water
+Left a charm upon the arrow?
+Did the heart-blood of the Pale-Face
+From the arrow in the water
+Cause the coming of the green shoot,
+Which reached upward to the sunlight?
+
+All O-kis-ko's love and courage
+Could not give him greater knowledge.
+Savage mind could not unravel
+All the meaning of this marvel.
+Fear forbade him touch the arrow
+Lest he should destroy the green shoot;
+So he left the tender leaflets
+Reaching upward to the sunlight,
+Sought again the lifeless maiden
+For whose love his soul had hungered;
+Knelt beside her in the forest,
+With the awe of death upon him,
+Which in heathen as in Christian
+Moves the human soul to worship.
+
+All his faith in savage magic
+Turned to frenzy at his failure;
+And the helplessness of mortals
+Pressed upon him like a burden;
+While a mighty longing seized him
+For a knowledge of the Unknown,
+For a light to pierce the Silence
+Into which none enter living.
+And unconsciously his spirit
+Rose in quest of Might Supernal,
+Which should rule both dead and living,
+Leaving naught to chance or magic;
+Which should seize the throbbing pulses
+Ebbing from a dying mortal,
+And create a higher being
+Free from thrall of earthly nature;
+Almost grasping in his yearning
+Knowledge of the God Eternal,
+In whose hand the earth lies helpless,
+In whose heart all souls find refuge.
+
+But no light came to O-kis-ko;
+Still the burden pressed upon him,
+And a pall of hopeless yearning
+Wrapped his soul in voiceless sorrow
+As he gazed upon the maiden
+With death's mysteries enfolded.
+Then he made upon her bosom
+The strange Cross-Sign she had taught him;
+From his shoulders took the mantle
+Made of skins of many sea-gulls,
+Gently wrapped the maiden in it,
+Heaped the tinted leaves about her;
+Leaving all his own life's brightness
+With her where the shadows darkened.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Thus the ancient legend runneth, with its plaint of hopeless doom,
+Bearing in its heart the fragrance of the Truth's enduring bloom,
+Standing in the light of knowledge, where developed ages meet,
+We can read the mystic omens which O-kis-ko's eyes did greet.
+And to us they seem the symbols of what coming ages brought,
+Realization gives the answer, which in vain the Savage sought.
+For we know the silver arrow, fatal to all sorcery,
+Was the gleaming light of Progress speeding from across the sea,
+Before which the Red Man vanished, shrinking from its silvery light
+As the magic waters yielded to the silver arrow's blight.
+And the tiny shoot with leaflets, by the sunlight warmed to life,
+Was the Vine of Civilization in the wilderness of strife;
+With no friendly hand to tend it, yet it grew midst slight and wrong,
+Taking root in other places,[AC]--growing green, and broad, and strong,
+Till its vigor knew no weakness, with its branches flower-fraught,
+Till a prosp'rous land it sheltered where th' oppressed a refuge sought,
+Till its fruit made all who labored 'neath its shade both bold and free,
+Till a people dwelt beneath it strong to meet their destiny.
+
+Now beneath its spreading branches dwells a nation brave and free,
+Raising glad, triumphant pæans for the boon of Liberty;
+Holding fast the Holy Cross-Sign,--Heirs of Duty and of Light,--
+Still they speed the arrow, Progress, on its civilizing flight;
+Keeping bright the Fires of Freedom, where Man, Brotherhood may know,
+For God's breath upon the altar keeps the sacred flame aglow.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote AC: Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.]
+
+
+
+
+APPENDIX
+
+
+NOTE _a_.--"We viewed the land about us, being where we first landed
+very sandy and low towards the water side, but so full of grapes as the
+very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them, of which we found
+such plenty, as well there as in all places else, both on the sand and
+on the green soil, on the hills as in the plains, as well on every
+little shrub, as also climbing towards the tops of high cedars, that I
+think in all the world the like abundance is not to be found."--_First
+voyage of Amadas and Barlowe, 1584. From Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _b_.--"The second of July we found shoal water, where we smelled
+so sweet and so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some
+delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers, by
+which we were assured that the land could not be far distant."--_First
+voyage of Amadas and Barlowe, 1584._
+
+NOTE _c_.--"Deer, in some places there are great store: near unto the
+seacoast they are of the ordinary bigness of ours in England, and some
+less: but further up into the country where there is better feed, they
+are greater."--_Harriot's Report._
+
+NOTE _d_.--"The Governor (John White) with divers of his company,
+walked to the north end of the island, where Master Ralph Lane had his
+fort, with sundry necessary and decent dwelling houses, made by his men
+about it, the year before, where we hoped to find some signs, or
+certain knowledge of our fifteen men. When we came thither we found the
+fort razed down, but all the houses standing unhurt, saving that the
+neather rooms of them, and also of the fort, were overgrown with melons
+of divers sorts, and deer within them, feeding on those melons; so we
+returned to our company, without hope of ever seeing any of the fifteen
+alive."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _e_.--"At our first landing they seemed as though they would fight
+with us, but perceiving us begin to march with our shot towards them,
+they turned their backs and fled. Then Manteo, their countryman, called
+to them in their own language, whom, as soon as they heard, they
+returned, and threw away their bows and arrows, and some of them came
+unto us embracing and entertaining us friendly, desiring us not to
+gather or spoil any of their corn, for that they had but little. We
+answered them that neither their corn nor any other thing of theirs
+should be diminished by any of us, and that our coming was only to
+renew the old love, that was between us and them at the first, and to
+live with them as brethren and friends; which answer seemed to please
+them well, wherefore they requested us to walk up to their town, who
+there feasted us after their manner, and desired us earnestly _that
+there might be some token or badge given them of us_, whereby we might
+know them to be our friends," etc.
+
+"And also we understood by them of Croatoan, how that the fifteen
+Englishmen left at Roanoak the year before, by Sir Richard Grenville,
+were suddenly set upon by thirty of the men of Secota, Aquoscogoc, and
+Dasamonguepeuc, in manner following. They conveyed themselves secretly
+behind the trees, near the houses where our men carelessly lived, and
+having perceived that of those fifteen they could see but eleven only,
+two of those savages appeared to the eleven Englishmen, calling to them
+by friendly signs that but two of their chief men should come unarmed
+to speak with those two savages, who seemed also to be unarmed.
+Wherefore two of the chiefest of our Englishmen went gladly to them;
+but whilst one of those savages traitorously embraced one of our men,
+the other with his sword of wood, which he had secretly hidden under
+his mantle, struck him on the head and slew him, and presently the
+other eight and twenty savages shewed themselves; the other Englishman
+perceiving this, fled to his company, whom the savages pursued with
+their bows and arrows so fast that the Englishmen were forced to take
+the house, wherein all their victuals and weapons were; but the savages
+forthwith set the same on fire, by means whereof our men were forced to
+take up such weapons as came first to hand, and without order to run
+forth among the savages, with whom they skirmished above an hour. In
+this skirmish another of our men was shot into the mouth with an
+arrow, where he died; and also one of the savages was shot into the
+side by one of our men, with a wild fire arrow, whereof he died
+presently. The place where they fought was of great advantage to the
+savages, by means of the thick trees, behind which the savages through
+their nimbleness defended themselves, and so offended our men with
+their arrows, that our men, being some of them hurt, retired fighting
+to the water side where their boat lay, with which they fled towards
+Hatorask. By that time they had rowed but a quarter of a mile, they
+espied their four fellows coming from a creek thereby, where they had
+been to fetch oysters; these four they received into their boat,
+leaving Roanoak, and landed on a little island on the right hand of our
+entrance into the harbor of Hatorask, where they remained awhile, but
+afterwards departed, whither as yet we know not."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _f_.--"The thirteenth of August, our savage, Manteo, by the
+commandment of Sir Walter Raleigh, was christened in Roanoak, and
+called Lord thereof, and of Dasamonguepeuc, in reward of his faithful
+services."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _g_.--"The eighteenth, Eleanor, daughter to the Governor, and wife
+to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter, in
+Roanoak, and the same was christened there the Sunday following, and
+because this child was the first Christian born in Virginia, she was
+named Virginia."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _h_.--"The twenty-second of August, the whole company, both of the
+assistants and planters, came to the Governor, and with one voice
+requested him to return himself into England, for the better and sooner
+obtaining of supplies and other necessaries for them; but he refused
+it, and alleged many sufficient causes why he would not.... The next
+day, not only the assistants, but divers others, as well women as men,
+began to renew their requests to the Governor again, to take upon him
+to return into England for the supplies and dispatch of all such things
+as there were to be done.... The Governor being at the last, through
+their extreme entreating, constrained to return into England, having
+then but half a day's respite to prepare himself for the same, departed
+from Roanoak the seven and twentieth of August in the morning, and the
+same day about midnight came aboard the Fly-boat who already had
+weighed anchor, and rode without the bar, the admiral riding by them,
+who but the same morning was newly come thither again. The same day
+both the ships weighed anchor and set sail for England."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _k_.--"Our boats and all things filled again, we put off from
+Hatorask, being the number of nineteen persons in both boats; but
+before we could get to the place where our planters were left, it was
+so exceeding dark, that we overshot the place a quarter of a mile,
+where we espied towards the North end of the island the light of a
+great fire through the woods to the which we presently rowed: when we
+came right over against it we let fall our grapnel near the shore, and
+sounded with a trumpet a call, and afterwards many familiar English
+tunes of songs, and called to them friendly; but we had no answer, we
+therefore landed at daybreak, and coming to the fire we found the grass
+and sundry rotten trees burning about the place. From hence we went
+through the woods to that part of the island directly over against
+Dasamonguepeuc, and from thence we returned by the water side round
+about the north point of the island, until we came to the place where I
+left our colony in the year 1586. In all this way we saw in the sand
+the print of the savages' feet of two or three sorts trodden in the
+night; and as we entered up the sandy bank, upon a tree, in the very
+brow thereof, were curiously carved these fair Roman letters C. R. O.,
+which letters presently we knew to signify the place where I should
+find the planters seated, according to a secret token agreed upon
+between them and me at my last departure from them; which was, that in
+any way they should not fail to write or carve on the trees or posts of
+the doors the name of the place where they should be seated; for at my
+coming away they were prepared to remove from Roanoak fifty miles into
+the main. Therefore at my departure from them in An. 1587, I willed
+them that if they should happen to be distressed in any of those
+places, that then they should carve over the letters or name, a cross +
+in this form; but we found no such sign of distress.... And having well
+considered of this, we passed towards the place where they were left in
+sundry houses, but we found the houses taken down, and the place very
+strongly enclosed with a high palisade of great trees, with curtains
+and flankers, very fort-like, and one of the chief trees or posts at
+the right side of the entrance had the bark taken off, and five feet
+from the ground in fair capital letters was graven CROATOAN without any
+cross or sign of distress.... I greatly joyed that I had safely found a
+certain token of their safe being at Croatoan, which is the place where
+Manteo was born, and the savages of the island our friends."--_From
+Governor White's account of his voyage in search of the colonists,
+after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Hakluyt, Vol. III._
+
+NOTE _l_.--"We brought home also two of the savages, being lusty men,
+whose names were Wan-ches-e and Man-te-o."--_First voyage by Amadas and
+Barlowe._
+
+NOTE _m_.--All authorities agree in the statement that the favorite
+time among the Indians for an attack on an enemy was at, or about,
+daybreak.
+
+NOTE _n_.--"Into this river falls another great river called Cipo in
+which there is found great store of mussels in which there are
+pearls."--_Voyage of Amadas and Barlowe._
+
+"In her ears she had bracelets of pearls, hanging down to her middle,
+and these were of the bigness of good pease."--_Voyage of Amadas and
+Barlowe._
+
+"Sometimes feeding on mussels, we found some pearle, but it was our hap
+to meet with ragges, or of a pied colour; not having yet discovered
+those places where we heard of better and more plenty."--_Harriot's
+Report._
+
+NOTE _o_.--"The manner of making their boats in Virginia is very
+wonderful. For whereas they want instruments of iron or others like
+unto ours, yet they know how to make them as handsomely, to sail with
+where they list in their rivers, and to fish withal, as ours. First
+they choose some long and thick tree, according to the bigness of the
+boat which they would frame, and make a fire on the ground about the
+roots thereof, kindling the same by little and little with dry moss of
+trees, and chips of wood that the flame should not mount up too high,
+and burn too much of the length of the tree. When it is almost burnt
+through, and ready to fall they make a new fire which they suffer to
+burn until the tree falls of its own accord. Then burning off the top
+and boughs of the tree in such wise that the body of the same may
+retain his just length, they raise it upon poles laid over cross wise
+upon forked posts at such a reasonable height as they may handsomely
+work upon it. Then take they off the bark with certain shells; they
+reserve the innermost part of the bark for the nethermost part of the
+boat. On the other side they make a fire according to the length of the
+body of the tree saving at both the ends. That which they think is
+sufficiently burned, they quench and scrape away with shells, and
+making a new fire they burn it again and so they continue, sometimes
+burning and sometimes scraping until the boat have sufficient
+bottoms."--_Harriot's Report._
+
+NOTE _p_.--"They are a people clothed with loose mantles made of deer
+skin, and aprons of the same round about their middles."--_Harriot's
+Report._
+
+NOTE _s_.--"They have commonly conjurers or jugglers, which use strange
+gestures, and often contrary to nature in their enchantments: For they
+be very familiar with devils of whom they inquire what their enemies
+do, or other such things."--_Harriot's Report._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes
+
+
+Page xiii: Changed thay to that
+  (Tradition relates thay they transplanted this vine).
+
+Spelling variations:
+
+Page 55: Das-a-mon-que-peu
+Page 63: Das-a-mon-gue-pue
+Pages 83, 84, 86: Dasamonguepeuc
+
+Pages xii, xiv: Hariot
+Appendix Notes: Harriot
+
+
+
+
+
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+<img src="images/image001.jpg" width="451" height="600" alt="(cover)" title="" />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<h1>
+<span class="smcap">The White Doe</span></h1>
+<hr style="width: 33%;" />
+<h1><small>THE FATE OF
+VIRGINIA DARE</small></h1>
+
+<p class="title"><i>AN INDIAN LEGEND</i><br /><br />
+
+<small>BY</small><br /><br />
+
+<big>SALLIE<br />
+SOUTHALL<br />
+COTTEN<br /><br />
+</big></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 83px;">
+<img src="images/image002.png" width="83" height="100" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="title">
+Printed for the Author<br />
+<small>BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA</small><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+<p class="center"><small>Copyright, 1901<br />
+
+<span class="smcap">By Sallie Southall Cotten</span><br />
+
+<i>All rights reserved</i></small></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 369px;">
+<a name="Illus_frontis" id="Illus_frontis"></a>
+<img src="images/image003.jpg" width="369" height="600" alt="&quot;While within its bright&#39;ning dimness,
+With the misty halo &#39;round her,
+Stood a beautiful white maiden&quot;Page 70" title="frontispiece" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;While within its bright&#39;ning dimness,<br />
+With the misty halo &#39;round her,<br />
+Stood a beautiful white maiden&quot;<span class="right"><small>Page <a href="#Page_70">70</a></small></span></span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+<p class="center"><small>TO</small><br /><br />
+
+
+<big>The National Society</big><br />
+<small>of</small><br />
+<big>Colonial Dames of America</big><br />
+<br />
+<small>WHOSE PATRIOTIC WORK HAS STIMULATED<br />
+RESEARCH INTO AN IMPORTANT AND<br />
+INTERESTING PERIOD OF THE HISTORY OF</small><br />
+<br />
+OUR BELOVED COUNTRY<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="FORGOTTEN_FACTS_AND_FANCIES" id="FORGOTTEN_FACTS_AND_FANCIES"></a>FORGOTTEN FACTS AND FANCIES<br />
+OF AMERICAN HISTORY</h2>
+
+
+<p><span class="dropcapa"><span class="dropcap">A</span></span>S civilization advances there develops
+in the heart of man a higher
+appreciation of the past, and the
+deeds of preceding generations
+come to be viewed with a calm
+criticism which denudes those
+deeds of false splendor and increases
+the lustre of real accomplishment.
+Man cannot see into the future and
+acquire the prescience of coming events which
+would make him infallible, but he can remove the
+veil from the past, contemplate the mistakes and
+successes of those who have lived before him, and
+who struggled with the same problems which now
+confront him. The results of their efforts are recorded
+in history, and inspired by high ideals he can
+study the past, and by feeding his lamp of wisdom
+with the oil of their experiences he secures a
+greater light to guide his own activities. Man
+remains a slave to Fate until Knowledge makes
+him free, and while all true knowledge comes<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[Pg ii]</a></span>
+from experience, it need not necessarily be <i>personal</i>
+experience.</p>
+
+<p>In studying the past, deeds come to be estimated
+more with reference to their ultimate results and as
+factors in universal progress, and less as personal
+efforts; just as more and more the personal merges
+into the universal in all lines of endeavor. Viewed
+in this light of ultimate results an imperishable and
+increased lustre envelops the name of Sir Walter
+Raleigh as the pioneer and faithful promoter of
+English colonization in America. The recognition
+of his services by the people who reap the reward
+of his labors has ever been too meagre. A portrait
+here and there, the name of the capital city in
+a State, a mention among other explorers on a
+tablet in the National Library, the name of a battleship,
+and a few pages in history, help to remind us
+of his association with this nation. Perhaps a few
+may recognize his personal colors&mdash;red and white&mdash;in
+the binding in this book, and his Coat of Arms
+in the heraldic device which ornaments the cover,
+and which are mentioned "lest we forget" one we
+should honor.</p>
+
+<p>The present and ever increasing greatness of
+these United States is due to the efforts of this
+remarkable man, who so wondrously combined in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[Pg iii]</a></span>
+one personality the attributes of statesman, courtier,
+soldier, scientist, poet, explorer, and martyr. Isabella
+of Spain offered her jewels to aid Columbus,
+and the deed has been lauded and celebrated as of
+international value, yet it contained no touch of
+personal sacrifice. She was never deprived of her
+jewels, and while her generous offer proved her
+faith in the theories and ability of Columbus, it
+brought to her no suffering. On the other hand,
+the efforts of Sir Walter Raleigh were at his own
+expense, and entailed financial disaster on him in
+the end. That he sought to extend the power of
+England must be admitted by those who correctly
+estimate his character; yet no one will deny that
+he was the most important factor in the colonization
+of America by the English. Spain, France, and
+England contended long for supremacy in the New
+World, but France failed to gain any permanent
+power, and Spanish dominance, as illustrated in
+South America and Mexico, was followed by slow
+progress. It was the English race, <i>led by Raleigh</i>,
+which has become the leading power and modern
+strength of America. Colony after colony he sent
+to the new land, and desisted not, even after the
+death of his half-brother and coadjutor, Sir Humphrey
+Gilbert. Disaster could not daunt so brave<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[Pg iv]</a></span>
+a spirit, and with unsurpassed enterprise and perseverance
+he continued to send expeditions year after
+year to what is now the coast of North Carolina, but
+which was then called Virginia, and recognized as
+Raleigh's possessions. Much money was required,
+and when his own fortune was exhausted he transferred
+to what is known as the London Company
+his rights to the land, and <i>by his advice</i> they avoided
+his mistakes and made the next settlement at Jamestown
+instead of Roanoak Island.</p>
+
+<p>These facts have been temporarily obscured by
+the moss of neglect, but they cannot be destroyed.
+They will ever remain the foundation-stones of the
+great structure known and respected among nations
+as the United States of America, and were laid by
+Sir Walter Raleigh at Roanoak Island, on the coast
+of North Carolina, which was then called Virginia.
+The intervening years have brought great results,
+those early struggles have ripened into success and
+greatness beyond Raleigh's most sanguine dreams.
+A new race has arisen, yet bearing the characteristics
+of the race from which it sprung. Our English
+ancestors, our heritage of English law and custom,
+of religion and home life, of language and ideals,
+all tempered by the development of new characteristics,
+bind us <i>through him</i> to England.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg v]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Sir Walter Raleigh was not an ordinary man.
+He was one of the most remarkable of a coterie of
+remarkable men whom a remarkable queen (Elizabeth)
+gathered around her, and to whom she owed
+much of the grandeur of her remarkable reign.
+Elizabeth's greatest gift was a capacity for discerning
+and using great minds, and she had the good
+fortune to find many around her at that period of
+time. Raleigh won her favor, and received from
+her many benefits, among which was the honor of
+knighthood with its emoluments, which she conferred.
+In the end her favor cost him dear, because
+his heart had the courage to be true to itself in love.
+Elizabeth never forgave him for loving, marrying,
+and being true until death to her maid of honor,
+the beautiful Elizabeth Throckmorton. That vain
+and jealous queen permitted no rivals, and she
+wished to reign over the heart of this man, who,
+handsome, brave, gallant, intelligent, and romantic,
+made an ideal courtier. His life at court was brilliant
+but brief. Love anchored a soul attuned to
+loftier deeds, and after his marriage his career as a
+courtier was eclipsed by his later exploits as a statesman,
+warrior, explorer, and author. He planned
+and participated in many expeditions which brought
+benefit to his queen and added to his own fortune,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg vi]</a></span>
+yet none of his expeditions have borne such an
+ever-increasing harvest of results as those he sent to
+America. He began that work in 1584, and continued
+to send expeditions in 1585-1586-1587, until
+the invasion of England by the Spanish Armada
+forced him to other activities, and even then he sent
+two expeditions to the relief of the colonists, which,
+because of the exigencies of war, failed to reach
+America. In fact, the attitude of Spain towards
+England at that time was the greatest obstacle which
+militated against the success of his colonies. His
+ships and his valor were necessary to suppress and
+check the insolence and ambition of Spain, who designed
+to conquer England and become mistress of
+the world. By his valor, loyalty, and wisdom Raleigh
+was largely instrumental in bringing about the failure
+of those plans and in defeating the Spanish fleet,
+which had been boastingly named The Invincible
+Armada. Again his zeal and cool daring won for
+England the great victory of Cadiz, which has
+always ranked as the most remarkable achievement
+in the annals of naval warfare. With only seven
+ships he dashed in and destroyed a large Spanish
+fleet (fifty-five ships) in its own harbor with a dexterity
+and valor not surpassed even by Dewey at
+Manila nor by Schley at Santiago.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Spain was always his foe because she feared him,
+and it seems like the Nemesis of fate that three hundred
+years later the death-blow of Spain as a world
+power was dealt in Manila Bay by the nation which
+Raleigh strove so hard to plant, himself all unconscious
+of what the years were to bring. On that
+famous morning when Dewey startled the world
+and chastised Spain for her insolence and cruelty,
+the ship which fired the first shot in a battle destined
+to change the rating of two nations, the
+ship which first replied to the fire of the Spanish
+forts, as if answering the challenge of an old-time
+foe,&mdash;that ship was the <i>Raleigh</i>, named in honor
+of that great man by the nation he had fostered,
+and in that battle Raleigh's foe was humbled,
+Raleigh's fame perpetuated, and Raleigh's death
+avenged.</p>
+
+<p>After the death of Elizabeth the star of Raleigh
+set. He whose most valiant work had been the
+defense of England against the attacks of Spain was
+falsely charged with treasonable negotiations with
+Spain, and after a farce of a trial was thrown into
+prison, where he remained more than twelve years.
+The only mitigations of the horrors of prison life were
+the presence of his devoted wife and his books. He
+had always been a student, and he spent the weary<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[Pg viii]</a></span>
+hours of his long confinement in that companionship
+which is known only to those who really love books,
+and to such minds they prove a panacea for sorrow
+and injustice. During that imprisonment he wrote
+his famous "History of the World," marking the
+eventful epoch by writing a history of the Old World
+at the same time that he was opening the gates of
+the future by planting English colonies in the New
+World. As soon as he was released from prison his
+mind returned to schemes of exploration. He made
+a voyage to South America, where new disasters
+befell him, and where his oldest son was killed.
+Shattered by grief and misfortune he returned to
+England, where his enemies had planned his certain
+downfall. Again he was sent to prison, but not for
+a long time, for soon his princely head paid the penalty
+which true greatness has too often paid to the
+power of a weak king. As a subject he was loyal
+and valiant, as a husband faithful and devoted, as a
+father affectionate and inspiring, as a scholar distinguished
+in prose and poetry, as a soldier he won
+fame and fortune, as a statesman he contributed to
+the renown of his sovereign's realm, and as a man
+he lived and died guided by the highest ideals.
+This was the man who spent a fortune trying to
+establish English colonies in North America, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[Pg ix]</a></span>
+who sent repeated expeditions to the island of
+Roanoak, situated where the waters of the Albemarle
+and Pamlico Sounds meet, on the coast of
+North Carolina, but which was then called Virginia.</p>
+
+<p>The island wears a cluster of historic jewels which
+should endear it to all patriotic Anglo-Americans.
+To them it should be the most sacred, the best
+loved spot in all the United States. There the first
+English settlements were made which led to English
+supremacy in the New World. There the first home
+altar was reared and the first child of English
+parents in the United States was born and baptized.
+There the blood of Englishmen first dyed the sod
+of North America, and there the first attempts at
+English agriculture were made. There was enacted
+the tragedy of American colonization, the disappearance
+of Raleigh's Lost Colony, and there the
+sacrament of baptism was first administered in the
+United States. Roanoak Island is a beautiful place,
+with fertile soil and wild luxuriance of vine-covered
+forests which are enveloped in a deep solitude which
+has become dignity. Restless waters ebb and flow
+by its side, restless winds kiss its bare sand dunes,
+a genial sun brings to maturity its wealth of tree
+and vine and shrub. Protected from the storms
+which ravage the ocean beyond, it sleeps in quiet<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">[Pg x]</a></span>
+beauty, content with its heritage of fame as <i>the first
+home of the English race in America</i>.</p>
+
+<p>Its isolated position, its wild beauty, its tragic
+associations, its dignified repose, all seem to have
+set it aside from the rush of modern progress that it
+might become a shrine for the homage of a patriotic
+people.</p>
+
+<p>The wonderful fertility of the soil of this island
+seemed a marvel to the early explorers, all of whom
+have testified to it. Ralph Lane, governor of the
+colony of 1585, in writing to Raleigh of the island
+and the surrounding country, declared it to be "the
+goodliest soil under the cope of heaven," and that
+"being inhabited with English no realm in Christendom
+were comparable to it;" every word of which
+is true now, provided that the English who inhabit
+it follow the suggestions of nature and adopt horticulture
+as the developing means. The surrounding
+country as well as Roanoak Island has a wealth of
+climbing vines and clustering grapes which point
+instinctively to grape culture. Amadas and Barlowe
+(1584) wrote that they found the land "so full of
+grapes as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed
+them, of which we found such plenty, as well
+there as in all places else, both on the sand and on
+the green soil, on the hills as on the plains, as well<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xi" id="Page_xi">[Pg xi]</a></span>
+as on every little shrub as also climbing towards the
+top of high cedars, that I think in all the world the
+like abundance is not to be found."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<a name="scuppernong_vineyard" id="scuppernong_vineyard"></a>
+<img src="images/image010.jpg" width="600" height="353" alt="A Scuppernong Vineyard, Roanoak Island" title="A Scuppernong Vineyard, Roanoak Island" />
+<span class="caption">A Scuppernong Vineyard, Roanoak Island</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Surely no other such natural vineyard was ever
+found outside the fabled Garden of the Gods!</p>
+
+<p>Even in this generation an old resident of the
+Banks, an ante-bellum pilot on these waters, has
+testified that his grandfather could remember the
+time "when if a vessel were stranded on any of the
+beaches the crew could crawl to land on the grapevines
+hanging over where now there is only a dry
+sand beach." Throughout the eastern part of that
+State (North Carolina) the grape riots in natural
+luxuriance and is luscious and fragrant. Many
+varieties remain wild, while others have been improved
+by cultivation. The three finest native
+American grapes, the Catawba, the Isabella, and the
+Scuppernong, are all indigenous to the soil of North
+Carolina. The Catawba, native to the banks of the
+river Catawba, from which it takes its name, is still
+found wild in North Carolina, while it has become
+celebrated at the North as a table-grape, and in
+Ohio as a wine-grape. In its adopted home it has
+revolutionized land values because of the money
+value of the product. The Isabella grape, so
+generally cultivated for table use, is thought to be a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xii" id="Page_xii">[Pg xii]</a></span>
+hybrid between the Burgundy and the native fox-grape
+of the Carolinas. The tradition runs that
+the Burgundy was brought to South Carolina by the
+Huguenots, and that cuttings from this hybrid were
+brought to North Carolina and successfully propagated.
+Mrs. Isabella Gibbs, for whom this well-known
+grape was named, carried a vine from North
+Carolina to Long Island, where it attracted attention
+because of its hardiness.</p>
+
+<p>To the people of the South Atlantic coast the
+Scuppernong is by far the most important of the
+native grapes, for while it refuses to flourish away
+from its native home, yet its great possibilities as a
+wine-grape are beginning to be appreciated. All
+the early explorers gave it special mention. Hariot
+in his famous Narrative wrote, "There are two kinds
+of grapes that the soil does yield naturally, the one
+is small and sour, of the ordinary bigness of ours in
+England; the other far greater and of <i>himself luscious
+sweet</i>. When they are planted and husbanded as
+they ought, a principal commodity of wines by them
+may be raised." (Hakluyt, 1586.) Lawson in his
+history (1714) describes several varieties, and dwells
+on the abundant supply of grapes and the great
+tangles of green vines. He wrote of a native <i>white</i>
+grape, which many in that day thought existed only<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii">[Pg xiii]</a></span>
+in his imagination; but it was a reality and was the
+now well-known Scuppernong, whose fame history
+and tradition both perpetuate, and whose real worth,
+greater than its legendary fame, is now being recognized
+and appreciated. There are several varieties
+of the Scuppernong, all luscious and yielding rich
+juices, and when ripe they fill the air with a fragrance
+unknown to any other grape.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;">
+<a name="mother" id="mother"></a>
+<img src="images/image012.jpg" width="350" height="600" alt="Old &quot;Mother&quot; Scuppernong Vine." title="Old &quot;Mother&quot; Scuppernong Vine." />
+<span class="caption">Old &quot;Mother&quot; Scuppernong Vine.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The first Scuppernong vine known to history was
+found on the mainland of the North Carolina coast
+by Amadas and Barlowe on their first voyage (1584).
+Tradition relates that they transplanted this vine to
+Roanoak Island. On this island there still flourishes
+an old vine, which despite its gnarled body and
+evident age continues to bear fruit. It is claimed
+that it is the same vine Amadas and Barlowe planted.
+Some insist that it was planted by Sir Walter Raleigh
+himself, but as that famous knight did not realize his
+wish to visit his new possessions in North America,
+the honor of having planted the vine must revert to
+Amadas and Barlowe. It seems to be endowed
+with perennial youth, and the harvest from its
+branches is an annual certainty.</p>
+
+<p>What the early explorers testified as to the abundant
+supply of grapes on the Carolina coast, and the
+propitious conditions existing for the propagation of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv">[Pg xiv]</a></span>
+the vine, is equally true to-day. The manifest destiny
+of North Carolina as the rival of Southern France
+in the production of wines seems to be inevitable.
+The marvel is how it has been so long delayed after
+Hariot's special mention of such possibilities. Hariot
+was a close observer with a practical mind, and the
+presence of an indigenous supply of material to sustain
+an important industry suggested to him that the
+people coming to this grape-laden land might establish
+such an industry to their advantage. The delay
+of the development of grape-culture in its native
+home can only be explained on the theory that when
+nature boldly invites, man becomes shy. This indifference
+to grape-culture is peculiar to America, for
+in Europe all the aristocracy who are land-owners,
+where the climate makes it possible, are cultivators
+of the grape, take great pride in their wines, boast
+of their rare and fine vintages, and hold the making
+of wine as one of the fine arts.</p>
+
+<p>The original Scuppernong has white skin, white
+pulp, white juice, and makes a white wine. Other
+varieties have dark purple skins and yield a reddish
+juice which makes a red wine. The dark varieties
+are said to be <i>seedlings</i> from the original white variety,
+and tradition explains the metamorphosis in
+this way.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<a name="modern_vineyard" id="modern_vineyard"></a>
+<img src="images/image014.jpg" width="600" height="351" alt="Among the Scuppernongs.&mdash;A Modern Vineyard." title="Among the Scuppernongs.&mdash;A Modern Vineyard." />
+<span class="caption">Among the Scuppernongs.&mdash;A Modern Vineyard.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xv" id="Page_xv">[Pg xv]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In the magic spring made famous in the legend
+of The White Doe, after the blood of Virginia Dare
+had melted from the silver arrow into the water of
+the spring, then the water disappeared. As the
+legend says:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Dry became the magic fountain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leaving bare the silver arrow."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Then while O-kis-ko looked on in wonderment he
+saw</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4">"a tiny shoot with leaflets<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pushing upward to the sunlight."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Tradition says that this "tiny shoot with leaflets"
+was a young seedling of the Scuppernong which had
+sprouted in the edge of the water, and it was not
+seen by O-kis-ko until all the water had disappeared.
+Then he saw it and immediately associated its appearance
+with the magic arrow, and so left it "reaching
+upward to the sunlight." After many days he
+returned to the spot-drawn by an irresistible longing,
+and covered the fatal arrow, which had brought
+him so much woe, with earth and leaves to hide
+it from his sight. The earth and leaves furnished
+the necessary nourishment to the tiny vine, which
+reached out with strength and vigor, and finding
+friendly bushes upon which to climb, it soon made a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xvi" id="Page_xvi">[Pg xvi]</a></span>
+sheltering bower above the spot where had bubbled
+the magic spring. This tiny green bower became the
+favorite retreat of O-kis-ko, where he would linger to
+cherish thoughts of his lost love, Virginia Dare, and
+marvel on the wonders of her death. Then it came
+to pass that when fruit came upon this vine, lo! it
+was purple in hue instead of white like the other
+grapes, and yielded a <i>red</i> juice. Full of superstition,
+and still credulous of marvels, O-kis-ko imagined
+the change to be due to the magic arrow buried
+at its root. He gathered the grapes and pressed the
+juice from them, and lo! it was <i>red</i>&mdash;it was the semblance
+of blood, <i>Virginia Dare's blood</i>, absorbed
+from the water (in which it had melted from the
+arrow) by the vine, and yet potent for good. Surely
+it held some unseen power, for it combined in some
+mystic way through the mysterious earth at his feet
+all the power of the magic spring, the power of the
+silver arrow, and the power of human blood consecrated
+through human love. He reverently drank
+the juice of this new vine, believing that it would in
+some way link him with the spirit of her he had
+loved and lost. Year after year he drank this juice
+and fed his soul on thoughts of love, making unconsciously
+a sacrament, and finding happiness in the
+thought that the blood of the maiden would feed his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xvii" id="Page_xvii">[Pg xvii]</a></span>
+spirit and lead him to her at last. To become good
+like her and to go to her became his highest hope.
+Aspiration had been born in his soul, and quickened
+by love it could not die, but led him blindly to strive
+to reach her, and such striving is never in vain.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<a name="virg_dare_vine" id="virg_dare_vine"></a>
+<img src="images/image016.jpg" width="600" height="348" alt="A &quot;Virginia Dare&quot; Vineyard." title="A &quot;Virginia Dare&quot; Vineyard." />
+<span class="caption">A &quot;Virginia Dare&quot; Vineyard.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Another fact that should be enshrined in the
+hearts and perpetuated in the memorials of the
+nation, is that on Roanoak Island the first Christian
+baptism in the United States was administered. By
+order of Sir Walter Raleigh, Manteo, the friendly
+Indian chief, was baptized soon after the arrival of
+the colony under Governor White, and the following
+Sunday Virginia Dare, the granddaughter of Governor
+White, was baptized, both events being officially
+reported to Raleigh. In this day of religious freedom
+any enforced adoption of religious forms shocks
+our pious instincts. Yet baptism has always been
+considered <i>necessary</i> to salvation, and in the past
+the zeal of Christians for the salvation of their fellow-men
+often assumed the form of mild force. We read
+where the Spaniards, always religious fanatics, administered
+the Holy Sacrament to thousands in
+Central America and Mexico <i>at the point of the
+sword</i>; their zeal misleading them to force upon
+those less enlightened than themselves the hope of
+that heaven which they believed to be accessible<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xviii" id="Page_xviii">[Pg xviii]</a></span>
+only through certain Christian rites. So to order
+the baptism of an Indian chief seems a simple,
+kindly thing, and most probably Manteo desired it
+done. The only other Indian who received baptism
+in those early settlements was Pocahontas, in 1614.
+She was a captive at the time and held as a hostage
+to induce Powhatan to comply with certain demands
+of the colonists at Jamestown.</p>
+
+<p>Despite the fact that Virginia Dare was baptized
+twenty-seven years earlier than Pocahontas, yet it is
+the Indian Princess who is figured in the painting
+on the walls of the dome of the Capitol at Washington
+as receiving the first baptism in the colonies.
+Buried in the annals of that time lies the fact that
+twenty-seven years before any colonist even came
+to Jamestown, Virginia Dare was born and baptized,
+as the sequence of Christian birth and as the
+child of Christian parents. Virginia Dare was not a
+myth. She was a living, breathing reality, a human
+creature of good English descent, the granddaughter
+of the governor of the colonies, the daughter of
+the assistant governor, and a sharer in the mysterious
+fate of Raleigh's Lost Colony. The historical
+facts of her life and the legend of her fate and
+death are contained in the pages of "The White
+Doe."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xix" id="Page_xix">[Pg xix]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Her baptism would not have been mentioned in
+the records if it had not been official and proper.
+In a new land, surrounded by dangers and difficulties,
+with strange environment to divert the mind
+to other channels, it would have been easy and
+natural for her baptism to have been delayed if not
+altogether neglected amid the stress of events. Her
+prompt baptism and the official report of the event
+to Sir Walter Raleigh is convincing testimony to
+the presence of a chaplain at Roanoak.</p>
+
+
+<h3>THE FIRST BAPTISM IN THE WILDS OF
+AMERICA!</h3>
+
+<p>How naturally the scene rises before us. The
+young mother, her heart thrilling with the mysteries
+of love and life, and elated with the joy of motherhood,
+alert to the dangers of the new land, and suspicious
+of the strange people among whom her
+blue-eyed treasure must live, yet yielding cheerfully
+to the busy smiling English women who had crossed
+the ocean with her, and now with womanly intuition
+ministered to her needs. We can picture them
+making tidy the confused household, and stilling the
+cries of the infant as they prepare her to receive
+the sign of the cross. We can almost picture them
+deliberating over a choice from among their limited<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xx" id="Page_xx">[Pg xx]</a></span>
+supply of vessels of one worthy to become the receptacle
+of the water to be used. It was on the
+Sabbath-Day, and the dedication to God of the
+wee creature who had so newly come among them
+was a fitting observance of the day. The solemn
+words of the ritual of the English Church, never
+before spoken in that primeval forest, must have
+awakened mysterious vibrations which linger yet
+and give to Roanoak Island that atmosphere of
+perpetual repose which envelops it. There must
+have come to those who witnessed the scene that
+holy Sabbath-Day, just as it comes now to those
+who view it from afar, a deep realization that the
+God of the English and the Great Spirit of the Indian
+are one and the same, then, now, and evermore.
+The One God to whom in baptism Virginia
+Dare was brought and in whose name Manteo the
+savage was signed with the cross and given the
+promise of salvation, and who remains the God of
+the millions of English-speaking people who now
+worship in the land which was then and there dedicated
+to the service of Christ.</p>
+
+<p>The mist of oblivion fades before the light of
+Truth, and Virginia Dare will be a shining jewel in
+the Chaplet of Memories which some day Christian
+America will place upon the tomb of the Past.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE</h2>
+
+
+<p>A familiar knowledge of the history of one's
+own country increases patriotism and stimulates
+valor. For this reason the study of written records
+called history should be supplemented by research
+into myths, folk-lore, and legends. While the
+value of history lies ever in its truth, it must yet
+bear the ideals of the people who participated in
+the events narrated. Tradition was the mother
+of all history, and was necessarily robed in the
+superstitions of the era of which the tradition tells.
+History writers, jealously guarding the truth, have
+striven to banish all traditions which seemed colored
+by fancy or even freighted with a moral lesson.
+These exiled traditions, bearing the seed-germs of
+truth, cannot die, but, like wandering spirits, float
+down the centuries enveloped in the mists of superstition,
+until finally, embodied in romance or song,
+they assume a permanent form called legend and
+become the heritage of a people. Legends are
+the satellites of history because they have their<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>
+origin in the same events, and the history of all
+countries is interspersed with them.</p>
+
+<p>The legend of The White Doe is probably the
+oldest and possibly the least known of all the
+legends which relate to the history of the United
+States. It is a genuine American legend, and the
+facts from which it had its origin form the first
+chapter in the history of English colonization in
+North America. Those facts are found in the
+repeated attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh to establish
+an English colony in the New World. The
+Spaniards were in Florida, the French were in
+Nova Scotia, but England had gained no possessions
+in North America when Raleigh began his
+efforts. This fact assumes more importance when
+we remember that civilization has made the greatest
+progress in those parts of America where the
+English became dominant. In South America,
+dominated by the Spaniards, civilization has made
+no strides, while in the United States a new nation
+has arisen whose ultimate destiny none may limit
+or foretell. As the gates of a new century open
+and disclose almost unlimited fields for human
+progress, this new nation, with an enthusiasm and
+courage born of success, has taken her place to
+lead in the eternal forward search for better opportunities<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>
+and higher life for the human race.
+All this grand destiny, all this ripening opportunity,
+like a harvest from a few seeds, is traced back,
+event after event, to the early struggles of those
+who braved the dangers of sea and forest in the
+attempts to colonize America. Those pioneer
+efforts, so generously promoted by Sir Walter
+Raleigh, though only partially successful, were the
+stepping-stones which later led to the better-known
+settlement of Jamestown, in Virginia. A brief
+<i>r&eacute;sum&eacute;</i> of those stepping-stones will make them
+familiar to all.</p>
+
+<p>In 1584 Queen Elizabeth made a grant to
+Raleigh for all the land from Nova Scotia to
+Florida, which was called Virginia, in honor of the
+Virgin Queen, as Elizabeth was called.</p>
+
+<p>The first expedition sent out under this grant
+was in the same year, 1584, and was entirely at
+the expense of Sir Walter Raleigh, as were all of
+the expeditions up to 1590. It was solely for the
+purpose of exploration, and was under the command
+of Amadas and Barlowe, who, after coasting
+along the Atlantic shores, entered Pamlico
+Sound and landed on the island of Roanoak,
+on the coast of the present State of North Carolina.
+They made the acquaintance of the tribes there<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span>
+resident, explored the country on the coast, and
+returned to England to bear enthusiastic testimony
+to the delightsomeness of the country. They took
+with them back to England two native Indian
+chiefs, Manteo and Wanchese, who returned to
+America on a subsequent voyage, as the official
+records tell.</p>
+
+<p>The following year, 1585, a colony of one
+hundred and seven men landed on this same island
+of Roanoak. They came organized to occupy
+and possess the land granted to Raleigh, and to
+secure such benefits therefrom as in those days
+were deemed valuable. They remained one year,
+exploring the country and trying to establish relations
+with the Indians. They built houses, planted
+crops, and looked forward to the arrival of more
+men and food, which had been promised from
+England. But no ships came, provisions grew
+scarce, and before the crops they had planted were
+mature enough to harvest, Sir Francis Drake, the
+great sea-rover of that day, appeared off the
+island with a fleet of vessels.</p>
+
+<p>Knowing the dangers of that coast, he did not
+attempt to come to the island, but sent in to learn
+of the welfare of the colony, and offered to supply
+their immediate needs. They asked, among other<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>
+things, that their sick and weak men be taken back
+to England, that food for those who remained be
+given them, and for a vessel in which they might
+return home if they so desired, all of which Drake
+granted. But a dreadful storm arose, which lasted
+three days and drove the promised vessel out to
+sea, with a goodly number of the colonists and
+the promised food on board. Seeing thus a part
+of their number and their food gone, the remaining
+colonists became homesick and panic-stricken
+and begged Drake to take them <i>all</i> to England,
+which he did. Thus ended the first attempt at
+English colonization in North America.</p>
+
+<p>Fifteen days after their departure Sir Richard
+Grenville arrived with three vessels, bringing the
+promised supplies, but found the men gone.
+Wishing to hold the country for England until
+another colony could arrive, he left fifteen men
+on the island with provisions for two years, and he
+returned to England. Those fifteen men are supposed
+to have been murdered and captured by
+the Indians, as the next colony found only some
+bones, a ruined fort, and empty houses in which
+deer were feeding.</p>
+
+<p>The leaving of those fifteen men is considered
+the second attempt at colonization, and is recognized<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>
+as a failure. But all success is built only
+by persistent repetition of effort, and so, in 1587,
+another colony came from England to this same
+island of Roanoak. Among those colonists were
+seventeen women and nine children, thus proving
+the intention of making permanent homes, and
+the hope of establishing family ties which should
+for all time unite England and North America.
+A few days after the arrival of this colony at
+Roanoak, Virginia Dare was born,&mdash;she being the
+first child born of English parents on the soil of
+North America,&mdash;and because she was the first
+child born in Virginia she was called Virginia.
+Her mother, Eleanor Dare, was the daughter of
+John White, the governor of the colony, and the
+wife of one of the assistant governors.</p>
+
+<p>The Sunday following her birth she was baptized,
+this being another fact of official record.</p>
+
+<p>By Sir Walter Raleigh's command the rite of
+baptism had been administered, a few days earlier,
+to Manteo, an Indian chief, who had visited
+England with a returning expedition, as previously
+mentioned. This baptism of the adult Indian and
+of the white infant were the first Christian sacraments
+administered in North America, and are
+worthy of commemoration.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The colonists soon found that to make possible
+and permanent their home in a new land many
+things were needed more than they had provided.
+So at their urgent request their leader, Governor
+White, grandfather of Virginia Dare, consented
+to return to England to secure the needed supplies,
+with which he was to return to them the
+following year. When White reached England he
+found war going on with Spain, and England
+threatened with an invasion by the famous Spanish
+Armada. His queen needed and demanded his
+services, and not until 1590&mdash;three years later&mdash;did
+he succeed in returning to America. When at last
+he came the colonists had disappeared, and the
+only clue to their fate was the word "Croatoan,"
+which he found carved on a tree; it having been
+agreed between them that if they changed their
+place of abode in his absence they would carve
+on a tree the name of the place to which they
+had gone.</p>
+
+<p>The arrival of those colonists, the birth and
+baptism of Virginia Dare, the return of White to
+England, the disappearance of the colony, and the
+finding of the word Croatoan, these facts form
+the record of that colony, the disappearance of
+which is a mystery which history has not solved.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>But tradition illumines many periods of the
+past which history leaves in darkness, and tradition
+tells how this colony found among friendly
+Indians a refuge from the dangers of Roanoak
+Island, and how this infant grew into fair maidenhood,
+and was changed by the sorcery of a rejected
+lover into <i>a white doe</i>, which roamed the
+lonely island and bore a charmed life, and how
+finally true love triumphed over magic and restored
+her to human form,&mdash;only to result in the death
+of the maiden from a silver arrow shot by a cruel
+chieftain.</p>
+
+<p>This tradition of a white doe and a silver
+arrow has survived through three centuries, and
+not only lingers where the events occurred, but
+some portions of it are found wherever in our
+land forests abound and deer abide. From Maine
+to Florida lumbermen are everywhere familiar
+with an old superstition that to see a white doe
+is an evil omen. In some localities lumbermen
+will quit work if a white deer is seen. That
+such a creature as a white deer really exists is
+demonstrated by their capture and exhibition in
+menageries, and to-day the rude hunters of the
+Alleghany Mountains believe that only a silver
+arrow will kill a white deer.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The disappearance of this colony has been truly
+called "the tragedy of American colonization,"
+and around it has hung a pathetic interest which
+ever leads to renewed investigation, in the hope
+of solving the mystery. From recent search into
+the subject by students of history a chain of
+evidence has been woven from which it has come
+to be believed that the lost colony, hopeless of
+succor from England, and deprived of all other
+human associations, became a part of a tribe of
+friendly Croatoan Indians, shared their wanderings,
+and intermarried with them, and that their
+descendants are to be found to-day among the
+Croatoan Indians of Robeson County, North
+Carolina.</p>
+
+<p>(Those who desire to investigate this supposed
+solution of the mystery can easily secure the facts
+and the conclusions formed by those who have
+made a careful study of the subject.)</p>
+
+<p>Of course, it can never be known <i>certainly</i>
+whether Virginia Dare was or was not of that
+number, but the full tradition of her life among
+the Indians is embodied in the legend of The
+White Doe.</p>
+
+<p>Much has been written about the Indian princess
+Pocahontas, and much sentiment has clustered<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>
+around her association with the Jamestown colony,
+while few have given thought to the young English
+girl whose birth, baptism, and mysterious disappearance
+link her forever with the earlier tragedies
+of the same era of history. It seems a strange
+coincidence that the Indian maiden Pocahontas,
+friend and companion of the <i>White</i> Man, having
+adopted <i>his</i> people as her own, should sleep in
+death on English soil, while the English maiden,
+Virginia Dare, friend and companion of the <i>Red</i>
+Man, having adopted his people as <i>her</i> own, should
+sleep in death on American soil,&mdash;the two maidens
+thus exchanging nationality, and linking in life
+and in death the two countries whose destinies
+seem most naturally to intermingle.</p>
+
+<p>The scattered fragments of this legend have
+been carefully collected and woven into symmetry
+for preservation. Notes from authentic sources
+have been appended for the benefit of searchers
+into the historical basis of the poem, which is
+offered to the public with the hope that it may
+increase interest in the early history of our home
+land and strengthen the tie which binds England
+and the United States.</p>
+
+<p class="author">
+<span class="smcap">Sallie Southall Cotten.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+
+
+<ul><li>&nbsp;<span class="tocright">         <small>PAGE</small></span></li>
+
+<li>Forgotten Facts and Fancies of American History      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_i">i</a></span></li>
+
+<li>Preface      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></span></li>
+
+<li>Prologue      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_19">19</a></span></li>
+
+<li>The Seeds of Truth      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></span></li>
+
+
+<li class="center">THE LEGEND OF THE WHITE DOE</li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: .75em;">  I.&mdash;The Refugees</span>      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: .5em;">II.&mdash;The Pale-Face Maiden</span>      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_42">42</a></span></li>
+
+<li>III.&mdash;Savage Sorcery      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></span></li>
+
+<li> IV.&mdash;The Counter-Charm      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></span></li>
+
+<li>  <span style="margin-left: .25em;">V.&mdash;The Hunt</span>      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_63">63</a></span></li>
+
+<li> VI.&mdash;The Silver Arrow      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_72">72</a></span></li>
+
+<li>Appendix      <span class="tocright"><a href="#Page_81">81</a></span></li>
+</ul>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="ILLUSTRATIONS" id="ILLUSTRATIONS"></a>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+
+
+<ol><li><span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>"While within its bright'ning dimness,</i></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>With the misty halo 'round her,</i></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>Stood a beautiful white maiden"</i></span>      <span class="tocright smcap"><a href="#Illus_frontis">Frontispiece</a></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>A Scuppernong Vineyard, Roanoak Island</i></span>      <span class="tocright"><i><a href="#scuppernong_vineyard">x</a></i></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>Old "Mother" Scuppernong Vine</i></span>      <span class="tocright"><i><a href="#mother">xii</a></i></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>Among the Scuppernongs.&mdash;A Modern Vineyard</i></span>      <span class="tocright"><i><a href="#modern_vineyard">xiv</a></i></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>A "Virginia Dare" Vineyard</i></span>      <span class="tocright"><i><a href="#virg_dare_vine">xvi</a></i></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>The Arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia</i></span>      <span class="tocright"><i><a href="#arrival_englishmen">23</a></i></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>"The Fierce, Brawny Red Man is King of the Wold"</i></span>      <span class="tocright"><i><a href="#red_man_king">24</a></i></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>The Land-of-Wind-and-Water</i></span>      <span class="tocright"><i><a href="#land-of-wind-and-water">32</a></i></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>Man-te-o, a Chiefe Lorde of Roanoak</i></span>      <span class="tocright"><i><a href="#manteo">34</a></i></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>"Then a New Canoe he fashioned"</i></span>      <span class="tocright"><i><a href="#canoe">52</a></i></span></li>
+
+<li><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>The Magician of Po-mou-ik</i></span>      <span class="tocright"><i><a href="#magician">58</a></i></span><br /><br />
+
+
+<ul>
+<li>Frontispiece from an original drawing by May Louise Barrett.<br /></li>
+
+<li>Maps and remaining illustrations reproduced from
+Theodore de Bry's edition of "The True Pictures and
+Fashions of the People in that Parte of America now
+called Virginia," 1590.</li>
+</ul></li></ol>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="PROLOGUE" id="PROLOGUE"></a>PROLOGUE</h2>
+
+
+<div class="blockprol"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In the tomb of vanished ages sleep th' ungarnered truths of Time,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the pall of silence covers deeds of honor and of crime;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Deeds of sacrifice and danger, which the careless earth forgets,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There, in ever-deep'ning shadows, lie embalmed in mute regrets.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Would-be-gleaners of the Present vainly grope amid this gloom;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Flowers of Truth to be immortal must be gathered while they bloom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Else they pass into the Silence, man's neglect their only blight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the Gleaner of the Ages stores them far from human sight.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet a perfume, sweet and subtle, lingers where each flower grew,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Rising from the shattered petals, bathed and freshened by the dew;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And this perfume, in the twilight, forms a mist beneath the skies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Out of which, like airy phantoms, legends and traditions rise;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the Seeds of Truth are buried in a legend's inmost heart,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To transplant them in the sunlight justifies the poet's art.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<a name="arrival_englishmen" id="arrival_englishmen"></a>
+<a href="images/image023a.png">
+<img src="images/image023.png" width="600" height="407" alt="The arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia" title="The arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia" /></a>
+<span class="caption">The arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="THE_SEEDS_OF_TRUTH" id="THE_SEEDS_OF_TRUTH"></a>THE SEEDS OF TRUTH<br /><br />
+
+<small>ROANOAK, 1587</small></h2>
+
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Shimmering waters, aweary of tossing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hopeful of rest, ripple on to the shore;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dimpling with light, as they waver and quiver,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Echoing faintly the ocean's wild roar.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Locked in the arms of the tremulous waters<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nestles an island, with beauty abloom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the warm kiss of an amorous summer<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fills all the air with a languid perfume.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Windward, the roar of the turbulent breakers<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Warns of the dangers of rock and of reef;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Burdened with mem'ries of sorrowful shipwreck,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They break on the sands in torrents of grief.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leeward, the forest, grown giant in greenness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shelters a land where a fervid sun shines;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wild with the beauty of riotous nature,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thick with the tangles of fruit-laden vines.<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From fragrant clusters, grown purple with ripeness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Rare, spicy odors float out to the sea,<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the gray gulls flit with restless endeavor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Skimming the waves in their frolicsome glee.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Out from the shore stalks the stately white heron,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seeking his food from the deep without fear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gracefully waving wide wings as he rises<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When the canoe of the Indian draws near.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through reedy brake and the tangled sea-grasses<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wander the stag and the timid-eyed doe<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Down to the water's edge, watchful and wary<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For arrows that fly from the red hunter's bow.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fearless Red Hunter! his birthright the forest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lithe as the antelope, joyous and free.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Trusting his bow for his food and his freedom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wresting a tribute from forest and sea,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No chilling forecast of doom in the future<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Daunts his brave spirit, by freedom made bold.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Far o'er the wildwood he roams at his pleasure,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The fierce, brawny Red Man is king of the wold.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<a name="red_man_king" id="red_man_king"></a>
+<img src="images/image024.jpg" width="600" height="404" alt="&quot;The fierce, brawny Red Man is king of the wold&quot;" title="&quot;The fierce, brawny Red Man is king of the wold&quot;" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;The fierce, brawny Red Man is king of the wold&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Lo! in the offing the white sails are gleaming,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ships from afar to the land drawing nigh;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Laden with men, strong and brave to meet danger,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Stalwart of form, fair of skin, blue of eye.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Boldly they land where the white man is alien;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Women are with them, with hearts true and brave;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sadly they stand where their countrymen perished,<a name="FNanchor_D_4" id="FNanchor_D_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_D_4" class="fnanchor">[D]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seeking a home where <i>they</i> found but a grave.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Friendly red hunters greet them with kindness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tell the sad tale how their countrymen died,<a name="FNanchor_E_5" id="FNanchor_E_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_E_5" class="fnanchor">[E]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Beg for a token of friendship and safety,<a name="FNanchor_F_6" id="FNanchor_F_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_F_6" class="fnanchor">[F]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Promise in love and in peace to abide.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Manteo's heart glows with friendly remembrance,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He greets them as brothers and offers good cheer;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No thrill of welcome is felt by Wanchese,<a name="FNanchor_G_7" id="FNanchor_G_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_G_7" class="fnanchor">[G]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His heart is bitter with malice and fear.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Envying men his superiors in wisdom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fearing a race his superiors in skill;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sullen and silent he watches the strangers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whom from the first he determines to kill.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then the sign of the Cross, on the brow of the Indian,<a name="FNanchor_H_8" id="FNanchor_H_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_H_8" class="fnanchor">[H]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seals to the savage the promise of life;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet symbol of sacrifice, emblem of duty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Standard of Peace, though borne amidst strife:</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Draped with the sombre, stained banner of Conquest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dark with the guilt of man's murder and greed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet bright with God's message of love and forgiveness<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Unto a universe welded to creed.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Gently the morning breeze tosses the tree-tops,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Low ebbs the tide on the outlying sand;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When a tiny white babe opens eyes to the sunlight,<a name="FNanchor_I_9" id="FNanchor_I_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_I_9" class="fnanchor">[I]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heaven's sweet pledge for the weal of the land.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Babe of the Wilderness! tenderly cherished!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Signed with the Cross on the next Sabbath Day;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Brave English Mother! through danger and sorrow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For a nation of Christians thou leadest the way.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Back to the home-land, across the deep water,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Goes the wise leader, their needs to abate;<a name="FNanchor_J_10" id="FNanchor_J_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_J_10" class="fnanchor">[J]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leaving with sorrow the babe and its mother<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In a strange land as a hostage to Fate.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Many long months pass in busy home-making,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet English customs prevail on the isle;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Anxious eyes watch for the ship in the offing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Saddened hearts droop, but the lips bravely smile.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Gone are the sweet dreamy days of the summer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In from the ocean the winter winds shriek;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dangers encompass and enemies threaten,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mother and child other refuge must seek.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mother and child, as in Bethlehem story,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Flee from the hate of their blood-thirsty foes;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hopeless of help from their own land and people,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They seek friendly tribes to find rest from their woes.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">To the fair borders of Croatoan Island,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Over the night-covered waters they flee;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seeking for safety with Manteo's people,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leaving the word "Croatoan" on a tree.<a name="FNanchor_K_11" id="FNanchor_K_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_K_11" class="fnanchor">[K]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Name of the refuge in which they sought shelter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Only the name of a tribe, nothing more;<a name="FNanchor_L_12" id="FNanchor_L_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_L_12" class="fnanchor">[L]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sign whereby those who would seek them might follow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To their new home on the Croatoan's shore.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Why did they leave the rude fort they had builded?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Why did they seek far away a new home?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O innocent babe! Roanoak's lost nestling!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How shall we learn where thy footsteps did roam?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Mid the rude tribes of the primeval forest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bearing the signet of Christ on thy brow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wert thou the teacher and guide of the savage?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who, of thy mission, can aught tell us now?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through the dim ages comes only the perfume,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Left where the flowers of Truth fell to earth;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With ne'er a gleaner to treasure the blossoms,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Save the sweet petals of baptism and birth.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Vainly we seek on Time's shore for thy footprints,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hid in a mist of pathos is thy fate;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet of a life under savage enchantment<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Quaint Indian legends do strangely relate.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3><br />
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#a">a</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#b">b</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#c">c</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_D_4" id="Footnote_D_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_D_4"><span class="label">[D]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#d">d</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_E_5" id="Footnote_E_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_E_5"><span class="label">[E]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#e">e</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_F_6" id="Footnote_F_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_F_6"><span class="label">[F]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#e">e</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_G_7" id="Footnote_G_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_G_7"><span class="label">[G]</span></a> Pronounced Wan-chess-e.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_H_8" id="Footnote_H_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_H_8"><span class="label">[H]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#f">f</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_I_9" id="Footnote_I_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_I_9"><span class="label">[I]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#g">g</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_J_10" id="Footnote_J_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_J_10"><span class="label">[J]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#h">h</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_K_11" id="Footnote_K_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_K_11"><span class="label">[K]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#k">k</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_L_12" id="Footnote_L_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_L_12"><span class="label">[L]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#k">k</a></i>.</p></div>
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+
+<h2>THE LEGEND OF THE WHITE DOE</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+<h2>I<br /><br />
+
+THE REFUGEES</h2>
+
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Loud the sea bemoaned its sameness;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dashing shoreward with impatience<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To explore the landward mysteries.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On the sand the waves spread boldly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Vainly striving to reach higher;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then abashed by vain ambition,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Glided to their ordained duty.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There the pine-tree, tall and stately,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whispered low the ocean's murmur;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Strove to soothe the restless waters<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With its lullaby of sighing.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There the tall and dank sea-grasses,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the storm-tide gathered secrets<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the caverns filled with treasures,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Milky pearls and tinted coral,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Stores of amber and of jacinth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the caves festooned with sea-weed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the Sea-King held his revels<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the Naiads danced in beauty.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In this Land-of-Wind-and-Water,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dowered with the sunshine's splendor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Juicy grapes grew in profusion,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Draping all the trees with greenness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the maize grew hard and yellow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the sunshine in its kernels.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through the forest roamed the black bear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the red deer boldly herded;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through the air flew birds of flavor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the sea was full of fishes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till the Red Man knew no hunger,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And his wigwam hung with trophies.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<a name="land-of-wind-and-water" id="land-of-wind-and-water"></a>
+<a href="images/image032a.jpg">
+<img src="images/image032.jpg" width="600" height="440" alt="The Land-of-Wind-and-Water" title="The Land-of-Wind-and-Water" />
+</a><span class="caption">The Land-of-Wind-and-Water</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">There brave Man-te-o, the Faithful,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ruled the Cro-a-to-ans with firmness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dwelt in peace beside the waters,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Smoked his pipe beneath the pine-tree,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gazed with pride upon his bear-skins<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which hung ready for the winter.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Told his people all the marvels<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the Land-of-the-Pale-Faces;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the ships with wings like sea-birds<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wherein he had crossed the water;<a name="FNanchor_M_13" id="FNanchor_M_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_M_13" class="fnanchor">[M]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the Pale-Face Weroanza<a name="FNanchor_N_14" id="FNanchor_N_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_N_14" class="fnanchor">[N]</a></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whom he saw in her own country;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of her robes of silken texture,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of her wisdom and her power;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Told them of her warlike people<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And their ships which breathed the lightning.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How he pledged with them a friendship,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hoping they would come to teach him<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How to make his people mighty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How to make them strong in battle<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So the other tribes would fear them.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the dream of future greatness<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Filled the Cro-a-to-ans with courage;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And their hearts grew warm and friendly<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the race of white-faced strangers.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When bold white men came among them,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the isle of Ro-a-no-ak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Man-te-o, the friendly Weroance,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Faithful proved to all his pledges.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Smoked with them the pipe of friendship,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Took their God to be his Father;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Took upon his swarthy forehead<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Their strange emblem of salvation,<a name="FNanchor_O_15" id="FNanchor_O_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_O_15" class="fnanchor">[O]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Emblem of the One Great Spirit,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Father of all tribes and nations.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Man-te-o, the friend and brother,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bade them fear the false Wan-ches-e,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the Weroance Win-gin-a,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose hearts burned with bitter hatred<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the men they feared in combat,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the strangers who defied them.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 474px;">
+<a name="manteo" id="manteo"></a>
+<img src="images/image034.jpg" width="474" height="600" alt="Man-te-o, a chiefe lorde of Roanoak" title="Man-te-o, a chiefe lorde of Roanoak" />
+<span class="caption">Man-te-o, a chiefe lorde of Roanoak</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When the Pale-Face, weak and hungry,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Feeble from continued labor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shivered in the blasts of winter<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which blew cold across the water,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then Wan-ches-e planned their ruin,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With Win-gin-a sought to slay them.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">To the isle of Ro-a-no-ak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the Pale-Face slept unguarded,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sped the swift canoes of Red Men,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gliding through the silent shadows.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As the sky grew red with dawning,<a name="FNanchor_P_16" id="FNanchor_P_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_P_16" class="fnanchor">[P]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While they dreamed of home and kindred,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Suddenly with whoop of murder<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wily Indians swarmed around them.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Skill of Pale-Face, craft of Red Man,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Met in fierce, determined battle;</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While within the Fort called Ralegh<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Many arrows fell, like raindrops.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Arrows tipped with serpent's poison,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Arrows tipped with blazing rosin,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Winged with savage thirst for murder,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Aimed with cruel skill to torture.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Threatened by the blazing roof-tree<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then the Pale-Face crouched in terror;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Saw the folly of resistance,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Feared his doom, and fled for safety.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Man-te-o, alert for danger,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From afar saw signs of conflict;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Saw the waves of smoke ascending<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heavenward, like prayers for rescue.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Swift, with boats and trusty warriors,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Crossed he then to Ro-a-no-ak;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Strong to help his Pale-Face brothers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Faithful to his friendly pledges.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">As the daylight slowly faded,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hopeless of the bloody struggle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Stealthily the Pale-Face warriors<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fled with Man-te-o's brave people.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Left they then the Fort called Ralegh,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Left the dead within its stockade;</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sought another island refuge,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hoping there to rest in safety.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Man-te-o sought for the mother,<a name="FNanchor_Q_17" id="FNanchor_Q_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_Q_17" class="fnanchor">[Q]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She with babe there born and nurtured<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Neath the shadow of disaster,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Come," said he, "the darkness falleth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All your people must flee henceward;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wan-ches-e will show no mercy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You must not become his captive.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Take the papoose from thy bosom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Call the white chief whom thou lovest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Haste with me upon the flood-tide<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To my wigwam on Wo-ko-kon."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Noiseless, she amid the conflict<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sought her heart's mate to flee with her;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Useless all the strife and courage,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Useless all the rude home-making;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shrine for worship, fort for safety,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hope of future peace and plenty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All were vain; yet life we cherish,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Far above all boons we hold it:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So she hastened on her mission<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the life of self and loved ones.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">As they neared the island border,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pale-Face husband, child, and mother,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Man-te-o in silence leading,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Every sense alive to danger,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Suddenly the Pale-Face father<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thought him of the parting caution<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Given by their absent leader:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If they fled in search of safety<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On a tree to leave a token,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whereby he might surely find them,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the land which gave them shelter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When he came again to seek them.<a name="FNanchor_R_18" id="FNanchor_R_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_R_18" class="fnanchor">[R]</a><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">By his side a sturdy live-oak<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Spread its green, protecting branches;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Quick he strove to carve the token<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which should speak to all who followed.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">C. R. O., in bold, plain letters<a name="FNanchor_S_19" id="FNanchor_S_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_S_19" class="fnanchor">[S]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cut he in the tree's firm body,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When a random, poisoned arrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pierced his heart, and he fell lifeless.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">With a smothered cry of horror,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In an agony of sorrow,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She would fain have lingered near him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But that Man-te-o urged onward.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If discovered, flight was futile,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Weakness now meant worse disaster;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She must save her helpless baby<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Though her heart be rent with anguish.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Frantic with love's desolation,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Strong with thoughts of home and father,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a woman's wondrous calmness<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When great peril calls for action,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Safe she placed the sleeping infant<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Cross the brawny arms of Man-te-o,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While with knife drawn from his girdle<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Carved she on another live-oak<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Plain, the one word "CROATOAN"<a name="FNanchor_T_20" id="FNanchor_T_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_T_20" class="fnanchor">[T]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As a sign to all her people.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Trusting all to savage friendship,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cutting hope with every letter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Praying God to guide her father<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the haven she was seeking.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Trust is woman's strongest bulwark,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All true manhood yields unto it.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As her sad eyes turned upon him<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Man-te-o was moved with pity<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the brave and tender woman,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Friendless in the land without him.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">On the brow of Pale-Face baby<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">First he made the Holy Cross-Sign;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then upon the sad-eyed mother<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Traced the sign her people taught him;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then again the sacred symbol<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Outlined on his own dark forehead;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And with open hand uplifted<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sealed his promise of protection;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Linking thus his pledge of safety<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With her faith in Unseen Power.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Mute with grief, she trusted in him;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In his boat they crossed the water,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the night fell like a mantle<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Spread in mercy to help save them.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When in Cro-a-to-an they landed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There they found the few survivors<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of that day of doom to many,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Glad once more to greet each other.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Man-te-o within his wigwam</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the cold wind gave them shelter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shared with them his furry bear-skins,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Made them warm, and warmth gave courage<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To meet life's relentless duties.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then he summoned all the people,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Called the old men and the young men,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bade the squaws to come and listen,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Showed the papoose to the women.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They gazed on its tender whiteness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Stroked the mother's flaxen tresses;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"'Tis a snow-papoose" they whispered,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"It will melt when comes the summer."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Man-te-o said to the warriors:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Ye all know these Pale-Face people<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whom Wan-ches-e sought to murder,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They have often made us welcome.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Brave their hearts, but few are living,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If left friendless these will perish;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We have store of corn and venison,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They are hungry, let us feed them;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They have lightning for their arrows,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let them teach us how to shoot it.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They with us shall search the forest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And our game shall be abundant;</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let them teach us their strange wisdom<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And become with us one people."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And the old men, grave in counsel,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the young men, mute with deference,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the uppowoc<a name="FNanchor_U_21" id="FNanchor_U_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_U_21" class="fnanchor">[U]</a> was burning,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pondered on his words thus spoken,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And to Man-te-o gave answer:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"All your words are full of wisdom;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We will share with them our venison,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They shall be as our own people."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">From the isle of Ro-a-no-ak<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thus the Pale-Face fled for succor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thus in Cro-a-to-an's fair borders<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Found a home with friendly Red Men.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nevermore to see white faces,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nevermore to see their home-land,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Yet to all the future ages<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sending proof of honest daring;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Forging thus a link of effort<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the chain of human progress.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 30px;">
+<img src="images/image041.png" width="30" height="54" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_M_13" id="Footnote_M_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_M_13"><span class="label">[M]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#l">l</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_N_14" id="Footnote_N_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_N_14"><span class="label">[N]</span></a> Queen Elizabeth.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_O_15" id="Footnote_O_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_O_15"><span class="label">[O]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#f">f</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_P_16" id="Footnote_P_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_P_16"><span class="label">[P]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#m">m</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_Q_17" id="Footnote_Q_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_Q_17"><span class="label">[Q]</span></a> Eleanor Dare.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_R_18" id="Footnote_R_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_R_18"><span class="label">[R]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#k">k</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_S_19" id="Footnote_S_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_S_19"><span class="label">[S]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#k">k</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_T_20" id="Footnote_T_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_T_20"><span class="label">[T]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#k">k</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_U_21" id="Footnote_U_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_U_21"><span class="label">[U]</span></a> Tobacco.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="II" id="II"></a>II<br /><br />
+
+THE PALE-FACE MAIDEN</h2>
+
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Nature feels no throb of pity,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Makes no pause for human heartbreak;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Though with agony we quiver,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She gives forth no sign of feeling.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Waxed and waned the moon, in season,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ebbed and flowed the tides obedient;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Summers filled the land with plenty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Winters chilled the summers' ardor.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No winged ships gleamed in the offing;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No Pale-Faces sought their kindred;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Roamed the Red Man unmolested.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While the babe of Ro-a-no-ak<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Grew in strength and wondrous beauty;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like a flower of the wildwood,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bloomed beside the Indian maidens.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Wi-no-na Sk&acirc;<a name="FNanchor_V_22" id="FNanchor_V_22"></a><a href="#Footnote_V_22" class="fnanchor">[V]</a> they called her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She of all the maidens fairest.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the tangles of her tresses<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sunbeams lingered, pale and yellow;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In her eyes the limpid blueness<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the noonday sky was mirrored.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the squaws of darksome features<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Smiled upon her fair young beauty;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Felt their woman hearts within them<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Warming to the Pale-Face maiden.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the braves, who scorned all weakness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Listened to her artless prattle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While their savage natures softened,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the change themselves unconscious.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Like the light of summer morning<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Beaming on a world in slumber<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was the face of young Wi-no-na<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the Cro-a-to-ans who loved her.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She, whose mind bore in its dawning<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Impress of developed races,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the rude, untutored savage<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seemed divinely 'dowed with reason.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She, the heir of civilization,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They, the slaves of superstition,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gave to her a silent rev'rence,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Growing better with such giving.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oft she told them that the Cross-Sign,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Made by Man-te-o before them<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When he talked to his own nation,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was the symbol of a Spirit<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Great, and good, and wise, and loving;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He who kept the maize-fields fruitful,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He who filled the sea with fishes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He who made the sun to warm them<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And sent game to feed His children.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">If, when in their games or councils,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They grew quarrelsome and angry,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Suddenly among them standing<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was a maiden like the sunrise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Making with her taper finger<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">This strange sign which they respected;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And without a word of pleading<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Strife and wrath would no more vex them,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the influence of her presence<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lingered 'round them like enchantment.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thus the babe of Ro-a-no-ak<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Grew to be the joy and teacher<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of a tribe of native heathen</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the land which gave her shelter.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the tide of her affections<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Flowed to those who gave her friendship;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whom alone she knew as human,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whom to her became as kindred.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 30px;">
+<img src="images/image045.png" width="30" height="54" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_V_22" id="Footnote_V_22"></a><a href="#FNanchor_V_22"><span class="label">[V]</span></a> Literally, "first-born white daughter."</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="III" id="III"></a>III<br /><br />
+
+SAVAGE SORCERY</h2>
+
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Man-to-ac, the Mighty Father,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When he filled the earth with blessings,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Deep within the heart of Woman<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hid the burning Need-of-Loving;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which through her should warm the ages<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a flame of mutual feeling,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Throbbing through her sons and daughters<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a force beyond their power.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And this law of human loving,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Changeless through unending changes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fills each living heart with yearning<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For another heart to love it;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And against this ceaseless craving<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Creed, nor clime, nor color standeth;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heart to heart all nature crieth<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That the earth may thrill with gladness.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">So the young braves of the nation,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thrilled with love for fair Wi-no-na,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Made rude ornaments to please her,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Laid the red deer at her wigwam.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Brought her skins of furry rabbits<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Soft and white as her own skin was;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Robbed the black bear and the otter<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That her bed might soft and warm be.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the children of the forest<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Were uplifted by such loving<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of a higher type of being,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who yet throbbed with human instincts.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Brave O-kis-ko loved the maiden<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a love which made him noble;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the love that self-forgetting<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fills the soul with higher impulse.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As the sun with constant fervor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heat and light to earth bestowing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seeks for no return of blessing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Feels no loss for all his giving,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So O-kis-ko loved Wi-no-na,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gave her all his heart's rude homage,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Felt no loss for all his giving,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Loved her for the joy of loving.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Scorned he all fatigue and danger<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which would bring her food or pleasure;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And each day brought proof of fealty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For his deeds were more than language.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">For her sake he tried to fasten<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To his rude canoe white pinions<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like the winged ships of the white man,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That with her he might sail boldly<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Out towards the rosy sunrise,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seeking for her lost grandsire<a name="FNanchor_W_23" id="FNanchor_W_23"></a><a href="#Footnote_W_23" class="fnanchor">[W]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For whose coming her heart saddened.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Though his red companions mocked him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His endeavor pleased the maiden,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And her eyes beamed kindly on him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Though no passion stirred her pulses.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For sweet maiden hopes and fancies<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Filled her life with happy dreaming<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ere her woman's heart awakened<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To O-kis-ko's patient waiting.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Waiting for her eyes to brighten<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Neath the ardor of his glances;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Waiting for her soul to quicken<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the answer to his longing;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Finding sweet content in silence,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Glad each day to see and serve her.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now old Chi-co, the Magician,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Also loved the fair Wi-no-na,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All his youth to him returning<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As he gazed upon her beauty.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In his wigwam pelt of gray wolf,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Antlers of the deer and bison,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hung to prove his deeds of valor;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he wooed the gentle maiden<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With his cunning tales of prowess.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">She would not rebuke his boasting,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fearful lest her words offend him;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For her nature kind and loving<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Could not scorn the vaunting Chi-co.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When he walked among the maidens,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gay with paint and decked with feathers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She would look on him with kindness<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That the others might not scoff him;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She would smile upon his weakness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Though she did not wish to wed him.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Chi-co's love was fierce as fire<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which from flame yields only ashes;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which gives not for joy of giving,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But demands unceasing tribute,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">More and more to feed its craving.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He grew eager and impatient,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He would share with none her favor;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All for him her eyes must brighten,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Else his frown would blight her pleasure.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When the young men played or wrestled,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If O-kis-ko came out victor;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or returning with the hunters<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He it was who bore the stag home;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If with eyes abrim with pleasure<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sweet Wi-no-na smiled upon him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or with timid maiden shyness<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Drooped her eyes beneath his glances,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then old Chi-co's heart would wither<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the fire of jealous fury,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till at length in bitter anger<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He determined none should win her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As from him she turned in coldness.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Wrapped in silence grim and sullen,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Much he wandered near the water;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With his soul he took dark counsel,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seeking for devices cruel<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the torture of his rival<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And destruction of the maiden.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Though he rarely used his power,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Chi-co was a great magician.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He knew all the spells of starlight<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the link 'tween moon and water;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Knew the language of lost spirits<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the secret of their power;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Knew the magic words and symbols<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whereby man may conquer nature.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Long he plotted,&mdash;much he brooded,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While he gathered from the water<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mussel-pearls all streaked and pied&egrave;d,<a name="FNanchor_X_24" id="FNanchor_X_24"></a><a href="#Footnote_X_24" class="fnanchor">[X]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All with rays like purple halos.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Such pearls are the souls of Naiads<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who have disobeyed the Sea-King,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And in mussel-shells are prisoned<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For this taint of human frailty.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When by man released from durance<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These souls, grateful for their freedom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Are his slaves, and ever render<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Good or evil at his bidding.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Chi-co steeped each one he gathered<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In a bath of mystic brewing;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Told each purple, pied&egrave;d pearl-drop</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What the evil was he plotted.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Never once his purpose wavered,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Never once his fury lessened;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nursing vengeance as a guerdon<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the mussel-pearls he polished.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then a new canoe he fashioned,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Safe, and strong, and deep he made it;<a name="FNanchor_Y_25" id="FNanchor_Y_25"></a><a href="#Footnote_Y_25" class="fnanchor">[Y]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And then sought to work his magic<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On the innocent Wi-no-na;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Asked the maiden to go with him<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In his boat across the water.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Come," said he, "to Ro-a-no-ak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the waves are white with blossoms,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the grapes hang ripe in clusters,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come with me and drink their juices."<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<a name="canoe" id="canoe"></a>
+<img src="images/image052.jpg" width="600" height="407" alt="&quot;Then a new canoe he fashioned&quot;" title="&quot;Then a new canoe he fashioned&quot;" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Then a new canoe he fashioned&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And the innocent Wi-no-na<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Listened to his artful pleading;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Went with him in search of pleasure,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Glad to show him friendly feeling.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While with idle stroke they floated<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the fragrant lily-blossoms,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He a string of pearls gave to her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Smooth and polished, pied and purple.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Round her snowy neck she placed them<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With no thought of harm or cunning;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And with simple, maiden speeches<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Filled the time as they sped onward.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">To each pearl had Chi-co chanted,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Each had bathed in mystic water,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Each held fast the same weird power,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till the time grew ripe for evil.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On the waves they could not harm her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There the Sea-King ruled them ever;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But when on the shore she landed<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They would work their evil mission.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">On the shore of Ro-a-no-ak<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Chi-co sent his boat with vigor.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lithe and happy she sprang shoreward,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When,&mdash;from where her foot first lightly<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pressed the sand with human imprint,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On&mdash;away&mdash;towards the thicket,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sprang <i>a White Doe</i>, fleet and graceful.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">His revenge thus wrought in safety,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Drifting seaward Chi-co chanted:</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Go, White Doe, hide in the forest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Feed upon the sweet wild-grasses;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No winged arrow e'er shall harm you,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No Red Hunter e'er shall win you;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Roam forever, fleet and fearless,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Living free and yet in fetters."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">O fair maiden! born and nurtured<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Neath the shadow of disaster!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Isle of Fate was Ro-a-no-ak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nevermore to fill with gladness<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The sad heart of stricken mother;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nevermore to hear the wooing<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the brave and true O-kis-ko.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gone thy charm of youthful beauty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gone thy sway o'er savage natures;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doomed to flee before the hunter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doomed to roam the lonely island,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Doomed to bondage e'en in freedom.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is the seal of doom eternal?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hath the mussel-pearl all power?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cannot <i>love</i> thy fetters loosen?<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 30px;">
+<img src="images/image041.png" width="30" height="54" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_W_23" id="Footnote_W_23"></a><a href="#FNanchor_W_23"><span class="label">[W]</span></a> Governor White, of the lost colony.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_X_24" id="Footnote_X_24"></a><a href="#FNanchor_X_24"><span class="label">[X]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#n">n</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_Y_25" id="Footnote_Y_25"></a><a href="#FNanchor_Y_25"><span class="label">[Y]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#o">o</a></i>.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="IV" id="IV"></a>IV<br /><br />
+
+THE COUNTER-CHARM</h2>
+
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Man-te-o and all his warriors<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Long and far sought for Wi-no-na;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sought to find the sky-eyed maiden<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sent by Man-to-ac, the Mighty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the Cro-a-to-ans to bless them,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And to make them wise and happy.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As a being more than mortal,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As a deity they held her;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And when no more seen among them<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lamentations filled the island.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through Wo-ko-kon's sandy stretches,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through the bog-lands of Po-mou-ik,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Even unto Das-a-mon-que-peu,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hunted they the missing maiden;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If perchance some other nation,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Envious of their peace and plenty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Had the maiden boldly captured,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For themselves to win her power.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Louder grew their lamentations<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When they found no trail to follow;</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wilder grew their threats of vengeance<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Gainst the tribe which held her captive.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While they wailed the Pale-Face Mother,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She who once was brave for love's sake,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Weak from hardships new and wearing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Utterly bereft of kindred,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her heart's comfort thus torn from her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Died beneath her weight of sorrow.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And a pity, soft and human,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Though he knew no name to call it,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thrilled the Red Man as he laid her<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Neath the forest leaves to slumber.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But the wary, wily Chi-co<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Told his secret unto no one,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While he listened to the stories,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Strange and true, told by the hunters<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of a fleet and graceful White Doe<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On the banks of Ro-a-no-ak.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the hunters said, no arrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Howsoever aimed could reach her;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Said the deer herd round her gathered,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And where e'er she led they followed.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The old women of the nation<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heard the tales about this White Doe.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Children they of superstition,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With their faith firm in enchantment,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Linked the <i>going</i> of the maiden<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the <i>coming</i> of the White Doe.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They believed in magic powers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They knew Chi-co's hopeless passion,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So they shook their heads and whispered,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Looked mysterious at each other,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Ho," they whispered to each other,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Chi-co is a great Magician,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Chi-co should go hunt this White Doe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He is not too old for loving;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love keeps step with Youth and Courage;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Old age should not make him tremble.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Timid is a doe, and gentle<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like a maiden,&mdash;like Wi-no-na.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oho! Oho!" and they chuckled,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Casting dark looks at old Chi-co,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"He," said they, "has 'witched our maiden."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When O-kis-ko heard the whispers<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the garrulous old women,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Glad belief he gave unto them<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That the Doe on Ro-a-no-ak<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was in truth the Pale-Face Maiden<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wrung from him by cruel magic.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He was not a gabbling boaster,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He could think and act in silence;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And alone he roamed the island<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seeking this White Doe to capture,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So that he might tame and keep her<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Near him to assuage his sorrow.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">All in vain,&mdash;no hand could touch her.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All in vain,&mdash;no hunter won her.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Up the dunes of Ro-a-no-ak<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Still she led the herd of wild deer.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then O-kis-ko sought We-nau-don,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Magician of Po-mou-ik.<a name="FNanchor_Z_26" id="FNanchor_Z_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_Z_26" class="fnanchor">[Z]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gave him store of skins and wampum,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Promised all his greed demanded,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If he would restore the maiden,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Break the spell which held her spirit.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<a name="magician" id="magician"></a>
+<img src="images/image058.jpg" width="600" height="441" alt="The magician of Po-mou-ik" title="The magician of Po-mou-ik" />
+<span class="caption">The magician of Po-mou-ik</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In his heart We-nau-don cherished<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hatred for his rival Chi-co<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For some boyhood's cause of anger,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For defeat in public wrestling;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And because of this he welcomed</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now the time to vent his malice.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So he promised from enchantment<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To release the captive maiden.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In the days of pristine nature,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the dells of Ro-a-no-ak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bubbling from the earth's dark caverns,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was a spring of magic water.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There the Naiads held their revels,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There in secret met their lovers;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And they laid a spell upon it<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which should make true lovers happy;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For to them true love was precious.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He who drank of it at midnight<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When the Harvest Moon was brightest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Using as a drinking-vessel<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Skull-bowl of his greatest rival<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Killed in open, honest combat,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And by summer sunshine whitened,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He gained youth perennial from it<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the heart he wished to love him.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He who bathed within its waters,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Having killed a dove while moaning,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And had killed no other creature<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Since three crescent moons had rounded;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Vowing to be kind and helpful<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the sad and weary-hearted:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He received the magic power<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To undo all spells of evil<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which divided faithful lovers.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In this spring had bathed We-nau-don,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he held its secrets sacred;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But a feeling ever moved him<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To make glad the heavy-hearted.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So he showed unto O-kis-ko<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where to find the magic water;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With this counter-charm, he told him<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How to free the charmed Wi-no-na:<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"In a shark's tooth, long and narrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In a closely wrought triangle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Set three mussel-pearls of purple,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Smooth and polished with much rubbing.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To an arrow of witch-hazel,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">New, and fashioned very slender,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Set the shark's tooth, long and narrow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With its pearl-inlaid triangle.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the wing of living heron</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pluck one feather, white and trusty;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With this feather wing the arrow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That it swerve not as it flyeth.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fashioned thus with care and caution,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let no mortal eye gaze on it;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tell no mortal of your purpose;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Secretly at sunset place it<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the spring of magic water.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Let it rest there through three sunsets,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then when sunrise gilds the tree-tops<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Take it dripping from the water,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At the rising sun straight point it,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While three times these words repeating:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Mussel-pearl arrow, to her heart go;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Loosen the fetters which bind the White Doe;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Bring the lost maiden back to O-kis-ko.</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With this arrow hunt the White Doe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Have no timid fear of wounding;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When her heart it enters boldly<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Chi-co's charm will melt before it."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Every word O-kis-ko heeded,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hope, once dead, now cheered his spirit.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the sea three pearls he gathered;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the thicket brought witch-hazel<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the making of the arrow;</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the heron's wing a feather<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Plucked to true its speed in flying.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Patiently he cut and labored,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As for love's sake man will labor;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shaped the arrow, new and slender,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Set the pearls into the shark's tooth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fastened firm the heron's feather,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a faith which mastered reason.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the magic spring he steeped it,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Watching lest some eye should see it;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through three sunsets steeped and watched it;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Three times o'er the charm repeated<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the sunrise touched the tree-tops;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then prepared to test its power.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 30px;">
+<img src="images/image062.png" width="30" height="61" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_Z_26" id="Footnote_Z_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_Z_26"><span class="label">[Z]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#s">s</a></i>.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="V" id="V"></a>V<br /><br />
+
+THE HUNT</h2>
+
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Long the Summer-Glory lingered,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Loath to yield its ripened beauty<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the cold embrace of Winter.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the greenness of the forest<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gave no sign of coming treason,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till the White Frost without warning<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hung his banners from the tree-tops.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then a blush of brilliant color<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Decked each shrub with tinted beauty;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gold, and brown, and scarlet mingled<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till no color seemed triumphant;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the Summer doomed to exile<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fled before the chilling Autumn.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While the glow of colors deepened,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The proud Weroance Win-gin-a,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Chief of Das-a-mon-gue-pue land,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Made a feast for all his people;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Called them forth with bow and arrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To a test of skill and valor.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He was weary of the mysteries<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whispered of the famous White Doe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose strange courage feared no hunter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For no arrow ever reached her.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Ha!" said he, "a skilful hunter<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is not daunted by a white doe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Craven hearts make trembling fingers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Arrows fail when shot by cowards.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>I</i> will shoot this doe so fearless,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her white skin shall be my mantle,<a name="FNanchor_AA_27" id="FNanchor_AA_27"></a><a href="#Footnote_AA_27" class="fnanchor">[AA]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Her white meat shall serve for feasting,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And my braves shall cease from fearing.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the fields the maize invites us,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sturgeons have been fat and plenty.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We are weary of fish-eating,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We will feast on meat of white deer."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Messengers of invitation<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sent he to the other nations,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Saying, "Come and hunt the White Doe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bring your surest, fleetest arrows;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We will eat the meat of white deer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We will drink the purple grape-juice,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Burn the uppowoc in pipe-bowls,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While we shame the trembling hunters."</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But the Cro-a-to-ans kept silence,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sent no answer to his greeting.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They believed the charm&egrave;d White Doe<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was Wi-no-na Sk&acirc;'s pure spirit,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who in freedom still was happy,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And they would not wound or harm her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They would shoot no arrows at her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor help feast upon her body.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then O-kis-ko answered boldly;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"I will go and hunt this White Doe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I will shoot from my own ambush,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I will take my fleetest arrow."<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the men and women wondered,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For they knew his former loving.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But O-kis-ko kept his secret,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Showed no one his new-made arrow;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Round his shoulders threw a mantle<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Made of skins of many sea-gulls,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So that he could hide his arrow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And no mortal eye could see it<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till he sent it on its mission<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Winged with magic, fraught with mercy.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thus he went to Ro-a-no-ak,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Love, and hope, and faith impelling,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Conscious of his aim unerring,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Trusting in the arrow's power.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">From Po-mou-ik came Wan-ches-e,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For the hunt and feast impatient,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Boasting of his skill and valor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Saying in his loud vainglory:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"I will teach the braves to shoot deer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Young men now are not great hunters,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hearts like squaws they have within them,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nothing fears them but a papoose."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Wan-ches-e had crossed the water<a name="FNanchor_AB_28" id="FNanchor_AB_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_AB_28" class="fnanchor">[AB]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the ships with wings like sea-birds,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the Pale-Face Weroanza,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whom he saw in her own country,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Him to please and show her friendship,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gave an arrow-head of silver<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To him as a mark of favor.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">This he now brought proudly with him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As of all his arrows fleetest;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bearing in its lustrous metal,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As he thought, some gift of power</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the mighty Weroanza<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which would bring success unto him;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the warriors all would praise him<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As around the feast they gathered,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Saying as he walked among them:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"There is none like brave Wan-ches-e,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He can bend the bow with firmness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He has arrow-points of silver,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the White Doe falls before him."<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he polished well the arrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which he thought would bring him praises.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Where the deer were wont to wander<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All the hunters took their stations,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the stalkers sought the forest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From its depths to start the deer-herd.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Near the shore Win-gin-a lingered<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That he first might shoot his arrow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And thus have the certain glory<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the White Doe's death upon him.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">By a pine-tree stood Wan-ches-e<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With his silver arrow ready;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While O-kis-ko, unseen, waited<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Near by in his chosen ambush,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where he oft had watched the White Doe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where he knew she always lingered.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Soon the stalkers with great shouting<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Started up the frightened red deer;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On they came through brake and thicket,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the front the White Doe leading,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With fleet foot and head uplifted,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Daring all the herd to follow.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Easy seemed the task of killing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So Win-gin-a twanged his bow-string,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But his arrow fell beside her<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As she sprang away from danger.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Through the tanglewood, still onward,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Head uplifted, her feet scorning<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All the wealth of bright-hued foliage<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which lay scattered in her pathway.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Up the high sand-dunes she bounded,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In her wake the whole herd followed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the arrows aimed from ambush<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fell around her ever harmless.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">On she sped, towards the water,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nostrils spread to sniff the sea-breeze;</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Through the air a whizzing arrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Flew, but did not touch the White Doe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But a stag beside her bounding<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wounded fell among the bushes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the herd fled in confusion,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Waiting now not for the leader.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">On again, with leaping footsteps,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tossing head turned to the sea-shore;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For one fatal minute standing<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the White Man's Fort had once stood;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In her eyes came wistful gleamings<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like a lost hope's fleeting shadow.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While with graceful poise she lingered,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Swift, Wan-ches-e shot his arrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Aimed with cruel thought to kill her;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While from near and secret ambush,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With unerring aim, O-kis-ko<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Forward sent his magic arrow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Aimed with thought of love and mercy.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">To her heart straight went <i>both</i> arrows,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And with leap of pain she bounded<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the earth, and then fell forward,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Prone, amidst the forest splendor.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O-kis-ko, with fond heart swelling,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wan-ches-e, with pride exultant,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the Doe both sprang to claim it,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Each surprised to see the other.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Suddenly, within the forest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Spread a gleaming mist around them,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like a dense white fog in summer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So they scarce could grope their pathway.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Slowly, as if warmed by sunbeams,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From one spot the soft mist melted,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While within its bright'ning dimness,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the misty halo 'round her,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Stood a beautiful white maiden,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Stood the gentle, lost Wi-no-na</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Through her heart two arrows crosswise<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pierced the flesh with cruel wounding;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Downward flowed the crimson blood-tide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Staining red the snow-white doe-skin<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which with grace her form enveloped,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While her arms with pleading gesture<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To O-kis-ko were outstretching.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">As they gazed upon the vision,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All their souls with wonder filling;</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While the white mist slowly melted,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Prostrate fell the wounded maiden</i>.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then revealed was all the myst'ry,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then they saw what had befallen.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To her heart the magic arrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">First had pierced, and lo! Wi-no-na<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Once more breathed in form of maiden.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But while yet the charm was passing<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Came the arrow of Wan-ches-e;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To her heart it pierced unerring,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pierced the pearl-inlaid triangle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Struck and broke the shark's tooth narrow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>Charm and counter-charm undoing</i>;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leaving but a mortal maiden<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wounded past the hope of healing.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Woe to love, and hope, and magic!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Woe to hearts whom death divideth!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While upon her bleeding bosom<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fatal arrows made the Cross-Sign,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wistful eyes she turned to Heaven;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"O forget not your Wi-no-na,"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whispered she unto O-kis-ko,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As her soul passed to the silence.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_AA_27" id="Footnote_AA_27"></a><a href="#FNanchor_AA_27"><span class="label">[AA]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#p">p</a></i>.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_AB_28" id="Footnote_AB_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_AB_28"><span class="label">[AB]</span></a> See Appendix, Note <i><a href="#l">l</a></i>.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="VI" id="VI"></a>VI<br /><br />
+
+THE SILVER ARROW</h2>
+
+
+<div class="block"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Fear seized on the bold Wan-ches-e<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When he saw the Pale-Face maiden<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Standing where had poised the White Doe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where the White Man's Fort had once stood.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He knew naught of magic arrows,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor O-kis-ko's secret mission;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He saw only his own arrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Piercing through her tender bosom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Never doubting but the wonder<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which his awe-struck eyes had witnessed<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Had been wrought by his own arrow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Silver arrow from a far land,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fashioned by the skill of Pale-Face,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gift of Pale-Face Weroanza<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To a race she willed to conquer.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">All his hatred of the Pale-Face,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fed by fear and superstition,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To him made this sudden vision<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Seem an omen of the future,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When the Red Man, like the White Doe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Should give place unto the Pale-Face,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the Indian, like the white mist,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fade from out his native forest.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All his courage seemed to weaken<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the dread of dark disaster;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And with instincts strong for safety<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fled he from the place in terror.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Love hath not the fear of danger,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And O-kis-ko's faith in magic<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Kept him brave to meet the changes<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which had each so quickly followed.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For he saw the human maiden<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where had stood the living White Doe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he knew his hazel arrow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Charmed with all We-nau-don's magic,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Had restored the lost Wi-no-na<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To reward his patient loving.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But the conflict of <i>two</i> arrows,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bringing death unto the maiden,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was a deep and darksome myst'ry<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which his ignorance could not fathom.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All the cause of his undoing<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Saw he in the silver arrow;</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So with true love's tireless effort,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Quick he strove to break its power.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">From her heart he plucked the arrow,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hastened to the magic water,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hoping to destroy the evil<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which had stilled the maiden's pulses.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In the sparkling spring he laid it<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So no spot was left uncovered,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So the full charm of the water<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Might act on the blood-stained arrow.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">As the blood-stains from it melted,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Blood of Pale-Face shed by Red Man,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Slowly, while he watched and waited,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0"><i>All the sparkling water vanished;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dry became the magic fountain,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leaving bare the silver arrow.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Was it thus the spell would weaken<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which had wrought his love such evil?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Would she be again awakened<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When he sought her in the thicket?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Must he shoot this arrow at her<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To restore her throbbing pulses?</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Must he seek again We-nau-don<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To make warm her icy beauty?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">While he of himself sought guidance,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sought to know the hidden meaning<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the mysteries he witnessed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lo! another mystic wonder<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Met his eyes as he sat musing.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">From the arrow made by Pale-Face,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As th' enchanted water left it,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sprang a tiny shoot with leaflets<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pushing upward to the sunlight.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Did the arrow dry the fountain<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the blight of death it carried?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or in going, had the water<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Left a charm upon the arrow?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Did the heart-blood of the Pale-Face<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the arrow in the water<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cause the coming of the green shoot,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which reached upward to the sunlight?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">All O-kis-ko's love and courage<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Could not give him greater knowledge.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Savage mind could not unravel<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All the meaning of this marvel.</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Fear forbade him touch the arrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lest he should destroy the green shoot;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So he left the tender leaflets<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Reaching upward to the sunlight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sought again the lifeless maiden<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For whose love his soul had hungered;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Knelt beside her in the forest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With the awe of death upon him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which in heathen as in Christian<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Moves the human soul to worship.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">All his faith in savage magic<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Turned to frenzy at his failure;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the helplessness of mortals<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Pressed upon him like a burden;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While a mighty longing seized him<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For a knowledge of the Unknown,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For a light to pierce the Silence<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Into which none enter living.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And unconsciously his spirit<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Rose in quest of Might Supernal,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which should rule both dead and living,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leaving naught to chance or magic;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which should seize the throbbing pulses<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ebbing from a dying mortal,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And create a higher being</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Free from thrall of earthly nature;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Almost grasping in his yearning<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Knowledge of the God Eternal,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In whose hand the earth lies helpless,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In whose heart all souls find refuge.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But no light came to O-kis-ko;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Still the burden pressed upon him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And a pall of hopeless yearning<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wrapped his soul in voiceless sorrow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As he gazed upon the maiden<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With death's mysteries enfolded.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then he made upon her bosom<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The strange Cross-Sign she had taught him;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From his shoulders took the mantle<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Made of skins of many sea-gulls,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gently wrapped the maiden in it,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Heaped the tinted leaves about her;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Leaving all his own life's brightness<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With her where the shadows darkened.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<div class="blockprol"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thus the ancient legend runneth, with its plaint of hopeless doom,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bearing in its heart the fragrance of the Truth's enduring bloom,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Standing in the light of knowledge, where developed ages meet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We can read the mystic omens which O-kis-ko's eyes did greet.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And to us they seem the symbols of what coming ages brought,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Realization gives the answer, which in vain the Savage sought.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For we know the silver arrow, fatal to all sorcery,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was the gleaming light of Progress speeding from across the sea,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Before which the Red Man vanished, shrinking from its silvery light<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As the magic waters yielded to the silver arrow's blight.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the tiny shoot with leaflets, by the sunlight warmed to life,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was the Vine of Civilization in the wilderness of strife;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With no friendly hand to tend it, yet it grew midst slight and wrong,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Taking root in other places,<a name="FNanchor_AC_29" id="FNanchor_AC_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_AC_29" class="fnanchor">[AC]</a>&mdash;growing green, and broad, and strong,</span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till its vigor knew no weakness, with its branches flower-fraught,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till a prosp'rous land it sheltered where th' oppressed a refuge sought,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till its fruit made all who labored 'neath its shade both bold and free,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Till a people dwelt beneath it strong to meet their destiny.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now beneath its spreading branches dwells a nation brave and free,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Raising glad, triumphant p&aelig;ans for the boon of Liberty;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Holding fast the Holy Cross-Sign,&mdash;Heirs of Duty and of Light,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Still they speed the arrow, Progress, on its civilizing flight;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Keeping bright the Fires of Freedom, where Man, Brotherhood may know,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For God's breath upon the altar keeps the sacred flame aglow.<br /></span>
+</div></div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 30px;">
+<img src="images/image079.png" width="30" height="52" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_AC_29" id="Footnote_AC_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_AC_29"><span class="label">[AC]</span></a> Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="APPENDIX" id="APPENDIX"></a>APPENDIX</h2>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="a" id="a"></a><i>a</i>.&mdash;"We viewed the land about us, being where
+we first landed very sandy and low towards the water side,
+but so full of grapes as the very beating and surge of the
+sea overflowed them, of which we found such plenty, as
+well there as in all places else, both on the sand and on
+the green soil, on the hills as in the plains, as well on
+every little shrub, as also climbing towards the tops of
+high cedars, that I think in all the world the like abundance
+is not to be found."&mdash;<i>First voyage of Amadas and
+Barlowe, 1584. From Hakluyt.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="b" id="b"></a><i>b</i>.&mdash;"The second of July we found shoal water,
+where we smelled so sweet and so strong a smell as if we
+had been in the midst of some delicate garden abounding
+with all kinds of odoriferous flowers, by which we were
+assured that the land could not be far distant."&mdash;<i>First
+voyage of Amadas and Barlowe, 1584.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="c" id="c"></a><i>c</i>.&mdash;"Deer, in some places there are great store:
+near unto the seacoast they are of the ordinary bigness
+of ours in England, and some less: but further up into
+the country where there is better feed, they are greater."&mdash;<i>Harriot's
+Report.</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="d" id="d"></a><i>d</i>.&mdash;"The Governor (John White) with divers of
+his company, walked to the north end of the island,
+where Master Ralph Lane had his fort, with sundry
+necessary and decent dwelling houses, made by his men
+about it, the year before, where we hoped to find some
+signs, or certain knowledge of our fifteen men. When
+we came thither we found the fort razed down, but all
+the houses standing unhurt, saving that the neather rooms
+of them, and also of the fort, were overgrown with melons
+of divers sorts, and deer within them, feeding on those
+melons; so we returned to our company, without hope
+of ever seeing any of the fifteen alive."&mdash;<i>Hakluyt.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="e" id="e"></a><i>e</i>.&mdash;"At our first landing they seemed as though
+they would fight with us, but perceiving us begin to march
+with our shot towards them, they turned their backs and
+fled. Then Manteo, their countryman, called to them in
+their own language, whom, as soon as they heard, they
+returned, and threw away their bows and arrows, and
+some of them came unto us embracing and entertaining
+us friendly, desiring us not to gather or spoil any of their
+corn, for that they had but little. We answered them
+that neither their corn nor any other thing of theirs
+should be diminished by any of us, and that our coming
+was only to renew the old love, that was between us and
+them at the first, and to live with them as brethren and
+friends; which answer seemed to please them well, wherefore
+they requested us to walk up to their town, who there
+feasted us after their manner, and desired us earnestly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span>
+<i>that there might be some token or badge given them of
+us</i>, whereby we might know them to be our friends,"
+etc.</p>
+
+<p>"And also we understood by them of Croatoan, how
+that the fifteen Englishmen left at Roanoak the year
+before, by Sir Richard Grenville, were suddenly set upon
+by thirty of the men of Secota, Aquoscogoc, and Dasamonguepeuc,
+in manner following. They conveyed themselves
+secretly behind the trees, near the houses where
+our men carelessly lived, and having perceived that of
+those fifteen they could see but eleven only, two of those
+savages appeared to the eleven Englishmen, calling to
+them by friendly signs that but two of their chief men
+should come unarmed to speak with those two savages,
+who seemed also to be unarmed. Wherefore two of the
+chiefest of our Englishmen went gladly to them; but
+whilst one of those savages traitorously embraced one
+of our men, the other with his sword of wood, which
+he had secretly hidden under his mantle, struck him on
+the head and slew him, and presently the other eight and
+twenty savages shewed themselves; the other Englishman
+perceiving this, fled to his company, whom the savages
+pursued with their bows and arrows so fast that the Englishmen
+were forced to take the house, wherein all their
+victuals and weapons were; but the savages forthwith
+set the same on fire, by means whereof our men were
+forced to take up such weapons as came first to hand,
+and without order to run forth among the savages, with
+whom they skirmished above an hour. In this skirmish
+another of our men was shot into the mouth with an arrow,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span>
+where he died; and also one of the savages was shot into
+the side by one of our men, with a wild fire arrow, whereof
+he died presently. The place where they fought was of
+great advantage to the savages, by means of the thick
+trees, behind which the savages through their nimbleness
+defended themselves, and so offended our men with their
+arrows, that our men, being some of them hurt, retired
+fighting to the water side where their boat lay, with which
+they fled towards Hatorask. By that time they had rowed
+but a quarter of a mile, they espied their four fellows
+coming from a creek thereby, where they had been to
+fetch oysters; these four they received into their boat,
+leaving Roanoak, and landed on a little island on the
+right hand of our entrance into the harbor of Hatorask,
+where they remained awhile, but afterwards departed,
+whither as yet we know not."&mdash;<i>Hakluyt.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="f" id="f"></a><i>f</i>.&mdash;"The thirteenth of August, our savage,
+Manteo, by the commandment of Sir Walter Raleigh,
+was christened in Roanoak, and called Lord thereof, and
+of Dasamonguepeuc, in reward of his faithful services."&mdash;<i>Hakluyt.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="g" id="g"></a><i>g</i>.&mdash;"The eighteenth, Eleanor, daughter to the
+Governor, and wife to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants,
+was delivered of a daughter, in Roanoak, and the same
+was christened there the Sunday following, and because
+this child was the first Christian born in Virginia, she was
+named Virginia."&mdash;<i>Hakluyt.</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="h" id="h"></a><i>h</i>.&mdash;"The twenty-second of August, the whole
+company, both of the assistants and planters, came to
+the Governor, and with one voice requested him to return
+himself into England, for the better and sooner obtaining
+of supplies and other necessaries for them; but he refused
+it, and alleged many sufficient causes why he would
+not.... The next day, not only the assistants,
+but divers others, as well women as men, began to
+renew their requests to the Governor again, to take upon
+him to return into England for the supplies and dispatch
+of all such things as there were to be done....
+The Governor being at the last, through their extreme
+entreating, constrained to return into England, having
+then but half a day's respite to prepare himself for the
+same, departed from Roanoak the seven and twentieth
+of August in the morning, and the same day about midnight
+came aboard the Fly-boat who already had weighed
+anchor, and rode without the bar, the admiral riding by
+them, who but the same morning was newly come thither
+again. The same day both the ships weighed anchor and
+set sail for England."&mdash;<i>Hakluyt.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="k" id="k"></a><i>k</i>.&mdash;"Our boats and all things filled again, we
+put off from Hatorask, being the number of nineteen
+persons in both boats; but before we could get to the
+place where our planters were left, it was so exceeding
+dark, that we overshot the place a quarter of a mile,
+where we espied towards the North end of the island the
+light of a great fire through the woods to the which we
+presently rowed: when we came right over against it we<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span>
+let fall our grapnel near the shore, and sounded with a
+trumpet a call, and afterwards many familiar English
+tunes of songs, and called to them friendly; but we had
+no answer, we therefore landed at daybreak, and coming
+to the fire we found the grass and sundry rotten trees
+burning about the place. From hence we went through
+the woods to that part of the island directly over against
+Dasamonguepeuc, and from thence we returned by the
+water side round about the north point of the island,
+until we came to the place where I left our colony in the
+year 1586. In all this way we saw in the sand the print
+of the savages' feet of two or three sorts trodden in the
+night; and as we entered up the sandy bank, upon a
+tree, in the very brow thereof, were curiously carved these
+fair Roman letters C. R. O., which letters presently we
+knew to signify the place where I should find the planters
+seated, according to a secret token agreed upon between
+them and me at my last departure from them; which
+was, that in any way they should not fail to write or
+carve on the trees or posts of the doors the name of the
+place where they should be seated; for at my coming
+away they were prepared to remove from Roanoak fifty
+miles into the main. Therefore at my departure from
+them in An. 1587, I willed them that if they should
+happen to be distressed in any of those places, that then
+they should carve over the letters or name, a cross &#8224; in
+this form; but we found no such sign of distress....
+And having well considered of this, we passed towards
+the place where they were left in sundry houses, but we
+found the houses taken down, and the place very strongly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span>
+enclosed with a high palisade of great trees, with curtains
+and flankers, very fort-like, and one of the chief trees or
+posts at the right side of the entrance had the bark taken
+off, and five feet from the ground in fair capital letters
+was graven CROATOAN without any cross or sign of
+distress.... I greatly joyed that I had safely found
+a certain token of their safe being at Croatoan, which is
+the place where Manteo was born, and the savages of
+the island our friends."&mdash;<i>From Governor White's account
+of his voyage in search of the colonists, after the defeat
+of the Spanish Armada. Hakluyt, Vol. III.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="l" id="l"></a><i>l</i>.&mdash;"We brought home also two of the savages,
+being lusty men, whose names were Wan-ches-e and
+Man-te-o."&mdash;<i>First voyage by Amadas and Barlowe.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="m" id="m"></a><i>m</i>.&mdash;All authorities agree in the statement that
+the favorite time among the Indians for an attack on an
+enemy was at, or about, daybreak.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="n" id="n"></a><i>n</i>.&mdash;"Into this river falls another great river called
+Cipo in which there is found great store of mussels in which
+there are pearls."&mdash;<i>Voyage of Amadas and Barlowe.</i></p>
+
+<p>"In her ears she had bracelets of pearls, hanging down
+to her middle, and these were of the bigness of good
+pease."&mdash;<i>Voyage of Amadas and Barlowe.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Sometimes feeding on mussels, we found some pearle,
+but it was our hap to meet with ragges, or of a pied colour;
+not having yet discovered those places where we heard of
+better and more plenty."&mdash;<i>Harriot's Report.</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="o" id="o"></a><i>o</i>.&mdash;"The manner of making their boats in Virginia
+is very wonderful. For whereas they want instruments
+of iron or others like unto ours, yet they know how to make
+them as handsomely, to sail with where they list in their
+rivers, and to fish withal, as ours. First they choose some
+long and thick tree, according to the bigness of the boat
+which they would frame, and make a fire on the ground
+about the roots thereof, kindling the same by little and
+little with dry moss of trees, and chips of wood that the
+flame should not mount up too high, and burn too much
+of the length of the tree. When it is almost burnt through,
+and ready to fall they make a new fire which they suffer
+to burn until the tree falls of its own accord. Then
+burning off the top and boughs of the tree in such wise
+that the body of the same may retain his just length,
+they raise it upon poles laid over cross wise upon forked
+posts at such a reasonable height as they may handsomely
+work upon it. Then take they off the bark with certain
+shells; they reserve the innermost part of the bark for
+the nethermost part of the boat. On the other side they
+make a fire according to the length of the body of the
+tree saving at both the ends. That which they think is
+sufficiently burned, they quench and scrape away with
+shells, and making a new fire they burn it again and so
+they continue, sometimes burning and sometimes scraping
+until the boat have sufficient bottoms."&mdash;<i>Harriot's Report.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="p" id="p"></a><i>p</i>.&mdash;"They are a people clothed with loose mantles
+made of deer skin, and aprons of the same round about
+their middles."&mdash;<i>Harriot's Report.</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Note</span> <a name="s" id="s"></a><i>s</i>.&mdash;"They have commonly conjurers or jugglers,
+which use strange gestures, and often contrary to nature
+in their enchantments: For they be very familiar with
+devils of whom they inquire what their enemies do, or
+other such things."&mdash;<i>Harriot's Report.</i></p>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+
+<h3>Transcriber's Notes</h3>
+
+
+<p>Page <a href="#Page_xiii">xiii</a>: Changed thay to that<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">(Tradition relates thay they transplanted this vine).</span><br /><br />
+
+Spelling variations:<br /><br />
+
+Page <a href="#Page_55">55</a>: Das-a-mon-que-peu<br />
+Page <a href="#Page_63">63</a>: Das-a-mon-gue-pue<br />
+Pages <a href="#Page_83">83</a>, <a href="#Page_84">84</a>, <a href="#Page_86">86</a>: Dasamonguepeuc<br /><br />
+
+Pages <a href="#Page_xii">xii</a>, <a href="#Page_xiv">xiv</a>: Hariot<br />
+<a href="#APPENDIX">Appendix</a> Notes: Harriot</p>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The White Doe, by Sallie Southall Cotten
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+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+Title: The White Doe
+       The Fate of Virginia Dare
+
+Author: Sallie Southall Cotten
+
+Release Date: May 13, 2009 [EBook #28796]
+
+Language: English
+
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+
+THE WHITE DOE
+
+THE FATE OF
+VIRGINIA DARE
+
+_AN INDIAN LEGEND_
+
+BY
+
+SALLIE
+SOUTHALL
+COTTEN
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Printed for the Author
+BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA
+
+
+
+
+Copyright, 1901
+
+BY SALLIE SOUTHALL COTTEN
+
+_All rights reserved_
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+"While within its bright'ning dimness,
+With the misty halo 'round her,
+Stood a beautiful white maiden"
+
+Page 70]
+
+
+
+
+TO
+
+The National Society
+of
+Colonial Dames of America
+
+WHOSE PATRIOTIC WORK HAS STIMULATED
+RESEARCH INTO AN IMPORTANT AND
+INTERESTING PERIOD OF THE HISTORY OF
+
+OUR BELOVED COUNTRY
+
+
+
+
+FORGOTTEN FACTS AND FANCIES
+OF AMERICAN HISTORY
+
+
+AS civilization advances there develops in the heart of man a higher
+appreciation of the past, and the deeds of preceding generations come
+to be viewed with a calm criticism which denudes those deeds of false
+splendor and increases the lustre of real accomplishment. Man cannot
+see into the future and acquire the prescience of coming events which
+would make him infallible, but he can remove the veil from the past,
+contemplate the mistakes and successes of those who have lived before
+him, and who struggled with the same problems which now confront him.
+The results of their efforts are recorded in history, and inspired by
+high ideals he can study the past, and by feeding his lamp of wisdom
+with the oil of their experiences he secures a greater light to guide
+his own activities. Man remains a slave to Fate until Knowledge makes
+him free, and while all true knowledge comes from experience, it need
+not necessarily be _personal_ experience.
+
+In studying the past, deeds come to be estimated more with reference to
+their ultimate results and as factors in universal progress, and less
+as personal efforts; just as more and more the personal merges into the
+universal in all lines of endeavor. Viewed in this light of ultimate
+results an imperishable and increased lustre envelops the name of Sir
+Walter Raleigh as the pioneer and faithful promoter of English
+colonization in America. The recognition of his services by the people
+who reap the reward of his labors has ever been too meagre. A portrait
+here and there, the name of the capital city in a State, a mention
+among other explorers on a tablet in the National Library, the name of
+a battleship, and a few pages in history, help to remind us of his
+association with this nation. Perhaps a few may recognize his personal
+colors--red and white--in the binding in this book, and his Coat of
+Arms in the heraldic device which ornaments the cover, and which are
+mentioned "lest we forget" one we should honor.
+
+The present and ever increasing greatness of these United States is due
+to the efforts of this remarkable man, who so wondrously combined in
+one personality the attributes of statesman, courtier, soldier,
+scientist, poet, explorer, and martyr. Isabella of Spain offered her
+jewels to aid Columbus, and the deed has been lauded and celebrated as
+of international value, yet it contained no touch of personal
+sacrifice. She was never deprived of her jewels, and while her generous
+offer proved her faith in the theories and ability of Columbus, it
+brought to her no suffering. On the other hand, the efforts of Sir
+Walter Raleigh were at his own expense, and entailed financial disaster
+on him in the end. That he sought to extend the power of England must
+be admitted by those who correctly estimate his character; yet no one
+will deny that he was the most important factor in the colonization of
+America by the English. Spain, France, and England contended long for
+supremacy in the New World, but France failed to gain any permanent
+power, and Spanish dominance, as illustrated in South America and
+Mexico, was followed by slow progress. It was the English race, _led by
+Raleigh_, which has become the leading power and modern strength of
+America. Colony after colony he sent to the new land, and desisted not,
+even after the death of his half-brother and coadjutor, Sir Humphrey
+Gilbert. Disaster could not daunt so brave a spirit, and with
+unsurpassed enterprise and perseverance he continued to send
+expeditions year after year to what is now the coast of North Carolina,
+but which was then called Virginia, and recognized as Raleigh's
+possessions. Much money was required, and when his own fortune was
+exhausted he transferred to what is known as the London Company his
+rights to the land, and _by his advice_ they avoided his mistakes and
+made the next settlement at Jamestown instead of Roanoak Island.
+
+These facts have been temporarily obscured by the moss of neglect, but
+they cannot be destroyed. They will ever remain the foundation-stones
+of the great structure known and respected among nations as the United
+States of America, and were laid by Sir Walter Raleigh at Roanoak
+Island, on the coast of North Carolina, which was then called Virginia.
+The intervening years have brought great results, those early struggles
+have ripened into success and greatness beyond Raleigh's most sanguine
+dreams. A new race has arisen, yet bearing the characteristics of the
+race from which it sprung. Our English ancestors, our heritage of
+English law and custom, of religion and home life, of language and
+ideals, all tempered by the development of new characteristics, bind us
+_through him_ to England.
+
+Sir Walter Raleigh was not an ordinary man. He was one of the most
+remarkable of a coterie of remarkable men whom a remarkable queen
+(Elizabeth) gathered around her, and to whom she owed much of the
+grandeur of her remarkable reign. Elizabeth's greatest gift was a
+capacity for discerning and using great minds, and she had the good
+fortune to find many around her at that period of time. Raleigh won her
+favor, and received from her many benefits, among which was the honor
+of knighthood with its emoluments, which she conferred. In the end her
+favor cost him dear, because his heart had the courage to be true to
+itself in love. Elizabeth never forgave him for loving, marrying, and
+being true until death to her maid of honor, the beautiful Elizabeth
+Throckmorton. That vain and jealous queen permitted no rivals, and she
+wished to reign over the heart of this man, who, handsome, brave,
+gallant, intelligent, and romantic, made an ideal courtier. His life at
+court was brilliant but brief. Love anchored a soul attuned to loftier
+deeds, and after his marriage his career as a courtier was eclipsed by
+his later exploits as a statesman, warrior, explorer, and author. He
+planned and participated in many expeditions which brought benefit to
+his queen and added to his own fortune, yet none of his expeditions
+have borne such an ever-increasing harvest of results as those he sent
+to America. He began that work in 1584, and continued to send
+expeditions in 1585-1586-1587, until the invasion of England by the
+Spanish Armada forced him to other activities, and even then he sent
+two expeditions to the relief of the colonists, which, because of the
+exigencies of war, failed to reach America. In fact, the attitude of
+Spain towards England at that time was the greatest obstacle which
+militated against the success of his colonies. His ships and his valor
+were necessary to suppress and check the insolence and ambition of
+Spain, who designed to conquer England and become mistress of the
+world. By his valor, loyalty, and wisdom Raleigh was largely
+instrumental in bringing about the failure of those plans and in
+defeating the Spanish fleet, which had been boastingly named The
+Invincible Armada. Again his zeal and cool daring won for England the
+great victory of Cadiz, which has always ranked as the most remarkable
+achievement in the annals of naval warfare. With only seven ships he
+dashed in and destroyed a large Spanish fleet (fifty-five ships) in its
+own harbor with a dexterity and valor not surpassed even by Dewey at
+Manila nor by Schley at Santiago.
+
+Spain was always his foe because she feared him, and it seems like the
+Nemesis of fate that three hundred years later the death-blow of Spain
+as a world power was dealt in Manila Bay by the nation which Raleigh
+strove so hard to plant, himself all unconscious of what the years were
+to bring. On that famous morning when Dewey startled the world and
+chastised Spain for her insolence and cruelty, the ship which fired the
+first shot in a battle destined to change the rating of two nations,
+the ship which first replied to the fire of the Spanish forts, as if
+answering the challenge of an old-time foe,--that ship was the
+_Raleigh_, named in honor of that great man by the nation he had
+fostered, and in that battle Raleigh's foe was humbled, Raleigh's fame
+perpetuated, and Raleigh's death avenged.
+
+After the death of Elizabeth the star of Raleigh set. He whose most
+valiant work had been the defense of England against the attacks of
+Spain was falsely charged with treasonable negotiations with Spain, and
+after a farce of a trial was thrown into prison, where he remained more
+than twelve years. The only mitigations of the horrors of prison life
+were the presence of his devoted wife and his books. He had always been
+a student, and he spent the weary hours of his long confinement in
+that companionship which is known only to those who really love books,
+and to such minds they prove a panacea for sorrow and injustice. During
+that imprisonment he wrote his famous "History of the World," marking
+the eventful epoch by writing a history of the Old World at the same
+time that he was opening the gates of the future by planting English
+colonies in the New World. As soon as he was released from prison his
+mind returned to schemes of exploration. He made a voyage to South
+America, where new disasters befell him, and where his oldest son was
+killed. Shattered by grief and misfortune he returned to England, where
+his enemies had planned his certain downfall. Again he was sent to
+prison, but not for a long time, for soon his princely head paid the
+penalty which true greatness has too often paid to the power of a weak
+king. As a subject he was loyal and valiant, as a husband faithful and
+devoted, as a father affectionate and inspiring, as a scholar
+distinguished in prose and poetry, as a soldier he won fame and
+fortune, as a statesman he contributed to the renown of his sovereign's
+realm, and as a man he lived and died guided by the highest ideals.
+This was the man who spent a fortune trying to establish English
+colonies in North America, and who sent repeated expeditions to the
+island of Roanoak, situated where the waters of the Albemarle and
+Pamlico Sounds meet, on the coast of North Carolina, but which was then
+called Virginia.
+
+The island wears a cluster of historic jewels which should endear it to
+all patriotic Anglo-Americans. To them it should be the most sacred,
+the best loved spot in all the United States. There the first English
+settlements were made which led to English supremacy in the New World.
+There the first home altar was reared and the first child of English
+parents in the United States was born and baptized. There the blood of
+Englishmen first dyed the sod of North America, and there the first
+attempts at English agriculture were made. There was enacted the
+tragedy of American colonization, the disappearance of Raleigh's Lost
+Colony, and there the sacrament of baptism was first administered in
+the United States. Roanoak Island is a beautiful place, with fertile
+soil and wild luxuriance of vine-covered forests which are enveloped in
+a deep solitude which has become dignity. Restless waters ebb and flow
+by its side, restless winds kiss its bare sand dunes, a genial sun
+brings to maturity its wealth of tree and vine and shrub. Protected
+from the storms which ravage the ocean beyond, it sleeps in quiet
+beauty, content with its heritage of fame as _the first home of the
+English race in America_.
+
+Its isolated position, its wild beauty, its tragic associations, its
+dignified repose, all seem to have set it aside from the rush of modern
+progress that it might become a shrine for the homage of a patriotic
+people.
+
+The wonderful fertility of the soil of this island seemed a marvel to
+the early explorers, all of whom have testified to it. Ralph Lane,
+governor of the colony of 1585, in writing to Raleigh of the island and
+the surrounding country, declared it to be "the goodliest soil under
+the cope of heaven," and that "being inhabited with English no realm in
+Christendom were comparable to it;" every word of which is true now,
+provided that the English who inhabit it follow the suggestions of
+nature and adopt horticulture as the developing means. The surrounding
+country as well as Roanoak Island has a wealth of climbing vines and
+clustering grapes which point instinctively to grape culture. Amadas
+and Barlowe (1584) wrote that they found the land "so full of grapes as
+the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them, of which we
+found such plenty, as well there as in all places else, both on the
+sand and on the green soil, on the hills as on the plains, as well as
+on every little shrub as also climbing towards the top of high cedars,
+that I think in all the world the like abundance is not to be found."
+
+[Illustration: A Scuppernong Vineyard, Roanoak Island]
+
+Surely no other such natural vineyard was ever found outside the fabled
+Garden of the Gods!
+
+Even in this generation an old resident of the Banks, an ante-bellum
+pilot on these waters, has testified that his grandfather could
+remember the time "when if a vessel were stranded on any of the beaches
+the crew could crawl to land on the grapevines hanging over where now
+there is only a dry sand beach." Throughout the eastern part of that
+State (North Carolina) the grape riots in natural luxuriance and is
+luscious and fragrant. Many varieties remain wild, while others have
+been improved by cultivation. The three finest native American grapes,
+the Catawba, the Isabella, and the Scuppernong, are all indigenous to
+the soil of North Carolina. The Catawba, native to the banks of the
+river Catawba, from which it takes its name, is still found wild in
+North Carolina, while it has become celebrated at the North as a
+table-grape, and in Ohio as a wine-grape. In its adopted home it has
+revolutionized land values because of the money value of the product.
+The Isabella grape, so generally cultivated for table use, is thought
+to be a hybrid between the Burgundy and the native fox-grape of the
+Carolinas. The tradition runs that the Burgundy was brought to South
+Carolina by the Huguenots, and that cuttings from this hybrid were
+brought to North Carolina and successfully propagated. Mrs. Isabella
+Gibbs, for whom this well-known grape was named, carried a vine from
+North Carolina to Long Island, where it attracted attention because of
+its hardiness.
+
+To the people of the South Atlantic coast the Scuppernong is by far the
+most important of the native grapes, for while it refuses to flourish
+away from its native home, yet its great possibilities as a wine-grape
+are beginning to be appreciated. All the early explorers gave it
+special mention. Hariot in his famous Narrative wrote, "There are two
+kinds of grapes that the soil does yield naturally, the one is small
+and sour, of the ordinary bigness of ours in England; the other far
+greater and of _himself luscious sweet_. When they are planted and
+husbanded as they ought, a principal commodity of wines by them may be
+raised." (Hakluyt, 1586.) Lawson in his history (1714) describes
+several varieties, and dwells on the abundant supply of grapes and the
+great tangles of green vines. He wrote of a native _white_ grape, which
+many in that day thought existed only in his imagination; but it was
+a reality and was the now well-known Scuppernong, whose fame history
+and tradition both perpetuate, and whose real worth, greater than its
+legendary fame, is now being recognized and appreciated. There are
+several varieties of the Scuppernong, all luscious and yielding rich
+juices, and when ripe they fill the air with a fragrance unknown to any
+other grape.
+
+[Illustration: Old "Mother" Scuppernong Vine.]
+
+The first Scuppernong vine known to history was found on the mainland
+of the North Carolina coast by Amadas and Barlowe on their first voyage
+(1584). Tradition relates that they transplanted this vine to Roanoak
+Island. On this island there still flourishes an old vine, which
+despite its gnarled body and evident age continues to bear fruit. It is
+claimed that it is the same vine Amadas and Barlowe planted. Some
+insist that it was planted by Sir Walter Raleigh himself, but as that
+famous knight did not realize his wish to visit his new possessions in
+North America, the honor of having planted the vine must revert to
+Amadas and Barlowe. It seems to be endowed with perennial youth, and
+the harvest from its branches is an annual certainty.
+
+What the early explorers testified as to the abundant supply of grapes
+on the Carolina coast, and the propitious conditions existing for the
+propagation of the vine, is equally true to-day. The manifest destiny
+of North Carolina as the rival of Southern France in the production of
+wines seems to be inevitable. The marvel is how it has been so long
+delayed after Hariot's special mention of such possibilities. Hariot
+was a close observer with a practical mind, and the presence of an
+indigenous supply of material to sustain an important industry
+suggested to him that the people coming to this grape-laden land might
+establish such an industry to their advantage. The delay of the
+development of grape-culture in its native home can only be explained
+on the theory that when nature boldly invites, man becomes shy. This
+indifference to grape-culture is peculiar to America, for in Europe all
+the aristocracy who are land-owners, where the climate makes it
+possible, are cultivators of the grape, take great pride in their
+wines, boast of their rare and fine vintages, and hold the making of
+wine as one of the fine arts.
+
+The original Scuppernong has white skin, white pulp, white juice, and
+makes a white wine. Other varieties have dark purple skins and yield a
+reddish juice which makes a red wine. The dark varieties are said to be
+_seedlings_ from the original white variety, and tradition explains the
+metamorphosis in this way.
+
+[Illustration: Among the Scuppernongs.--A Modern Vineyard.]
+
+In the magic spring made famous in the legend of The White Doe, after
+the blood of Virginia Dare had melted from the silver arrow into the
+water of the spring, then the water disappeared. As the legend says:
+
+    "Dry became the magic fountain,
+    Leaving bare the silver arrow."
+
+Then while O-kis-ko looked on in wonderment he saw
+
+            "a tiny shoot with leaflets
+    Pushing upward to the sunlight."
+
+Tradition says that this "tiny shoot with leaflets" was a young
+seedling of the Scuppernong which had sprouted in the edge of the
+water, and it was not seen by O-kis-ko until all the water had
+disappeared. Then he saw it and immediately associated its appearance
+with the magic arrow, and so left it "reaching upward to the sunlight."
+After many days he returned to the spot-drawn by an irresistible
+longing, and covered the fatal arrow, which had brought him so much
+woe, with earth and leaves to hide it from his sight. The earth and
+leaves furnished the necessary nourishment to the tiny vine, which
+reached out with strength and vigor, and finding friendly bushes upon
+which to climb, it soon made a sheltering bower above the spot where
+had bubbled the magic spring. This tiny green bower became the favorite
+retreat of O-kis-ko, where he would linger to cherish thoughts of his
+lost love, Virginia Dare, and marvel on the wonders of her death. Then
+it came to pass that when fruit came upon this vine, lo! it was purple
+in hue instead of white like the other grapes, and yielded a _red_
+juice. Full of superstition, and still credulous of marvels, O-kis-ko
+imagined the change to be due to the magic arrow buried at its root. He
+gathered the grapes and pressed the juice from them, and lo! it was
+_red_--it was the semblance of blood, _Virginia Dare's blood_, absorbed
+from the water (in which it had melted from the arrow) by the vine, and
+yet potent for good. Surely it held some unseen power, for it combined
+in some mystic way through the mysterious earth at his feet all the
+power of the magic spring, the power of the silver arrow, and the power
+of human blood consecrated through human love. He reverently drank the
+juice of this new vine, believing that it would in some way link him
+with the spirit of her he had loved and lost. Year after year he drank
+this juice and fed his soul on thoughts of love, making unconsciously a
+sacrament, and finding happiness in the thought that the blood of the
+maiden would feed his spirit and lead him to her at last. To become
+good like her and to go to her became his highest hope. Aspiration had
+been born in his soul, and quickened by love it could not die, but led
+him blindly to strive to reach her, and such striving is never in vain.
+
+[Illustration: A "Virginia Dare" Vineyard.]
+
+Another fact that should be enshrined in the hearts and perpetuated in
+the memorials of the nation, is that on Roanoak Island the first
+Christian baptism in the United States was administered. By order of
+Sir Walter Raleigh, Manteo, the friendly Indian chief, was baptized
+soon after the arrival of the colony under Governor White, and the
+following Sunday Virginia Dare, the granddaughter of Governor White,
+was baptized, both events being officially reported to Raleigh. In this
+day of religious freedom any enforced adoption of religious forms
+shocks our pious instincts. Yet baptism has always been considered
+_necessary_ to salvation, and in the past the zeal of Christians for
+the salvation of their fellow-men often assumed the form of mild force.
+We read where the Spaniards, always religious fanatics, administered
+the Holy Sacrament to thousands in Central America and Mexico _at the
+point of the sword_; their zeal misleading them to force upon those
+less enlightened than themselves the hope of that heaven which they
+believed to be accessible only through certain Christian rites. So to
+order the baptism of an Indian chief seems a simple, kindly thing, and
+most probably Manteo desired it done. The only other Indian who
+received baptism in those early settlements was Pocahontas, in 1614.
+She was a captive at the time and held as a hostage to induce Powhatan
+to comply with certain demands of the colonists at Jamestown.
+
+Despite the fact that Virginia Dare was baptized twenty-seven years
+earlier than Pocahontas, yet it is the Indian Princess who is figured
+in the painting on the walls of the dome of the Capitol at Washington
+as receiving the first baptism in the colonies. Buried in the annals of
+that time lies the fact that twenty-seven years before any colonist
+even came to Jamestown, Virginia Dare was born and baptized, as the
+sequence of Christian birth and as the child of Christian parents.
+Virginia Dare was not a myth. She was a living, breathing reality, a
+human creature of good English descent, the granddaughter of the
+governor of the colonies, the daughter of the assistant governor, and a
+sharer in the mysterious fate of Raleigh's Lost Colony. The historical
+facts of her life and the legend of her fate and death are contained in
+the pages of "The White Doe."
+
+Her baptism would not have been mentioned in the records if it had not
+been official and proper. In a new land, surrounded by dangers and
+difficulties, with strange environment to divert the mind to other
+channels, it would have been easy and natural for her baptism to have
+been delayed if not altogether neglected amid the stress of events. Her
+prompt baptism and the official report of the event to Sir Walter
+Raleigh is convincing testimony to the presence of a chaplain at
+Roanoak.
+
+
+THE FIRST BAPTISM IN THE WILDS OF AMERICA!
+
+How naturally the scene rises before us. The young mother, her heart
+thrilling with the mysteries of love and life, and elated with the joy
+of motherhood, alert to the dangers of the new land, and suspicious of
+the strange people among whom her blue-eyed treasure must live, yet
+yielding cheerfully to the busy smiling English women who had crossed
+the ocean with her, and now with womanly intuition ministered to her
+needs. We can picture them making tidy the confused household, and
+stilling the cries of the infant as they prepare her to receive the
+sign of the cross. We can almost picture them deliberating over a
+choice from among their limited supply of vessels of one worthy to
+become the receptacle of the water to be used. It was on the
+Sabbath-Day, and the dedication to God of the wee creature who had so
+newly come among them was a fitting observance of the day. The solemn
+words of the ritual of the English Church, never before spoken in that
+primeval forest, must have awakened mysterious vibrations which linger
+yet and give to Roanoak Island that atmosphere of perpetual repose
+which envelops it. There must have come to those who witnessed the
+scene that holy Sabbath-Day, just as it comes now to those who view it
+from afar, a deep realization that the God of the English and the Great
+Spirit of the Indian are one and the same, then, now, and evermore. The
+One God to whom in baptism Virginia Dare was brought and in whose name
+Manteo the savage was signed with the cross and given the promise of
+salvation, and who remains the God of the millions of English-speaking
+people who now worship in the land which was then and there dedicated
+to the service of Christ.
+
+The mist of oblivion fades before the light of Truth, and Virginia Dare
+will be a shining jewel in the Chaplet of Memories which some day
+Christian America will place upon the tomb of the Past.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+
+A familiar knowledge of the history of one's own country increases
+patriotism and stimulates valor. For this reason the study of written
+records called history should be supplemented by research into myths,
+folk-lore, and legends. While the value of history lies ever in its
+truth, it must yet bear the ideals of the people who participated in
+the events narrated. Tradition was the mother of all history, and was
+necessarily robed in the superstitions of the era of which the
+tradition tells. History writers, jealously guarding the truth, have
+striven to banish all traditions which seemed colored by fancy or even
+freighted with a moral lesson. These exiled traditions, bearing the
+seed-germs of truth, cannot die, but, like wandering spirits, float
+down the centuries enveloped in the mists of superstition, until
+finally, embodied in romance or song, they assume a permanent form
+called legend and become the heritage of a people. Legends are the
+satellites of history because they have their origin in the same
+events, and the history of all countries is interspersed with them.
+
+The legend of The White Doe is probably the oldest and possibly the
+least known of all the legends which relate to the history of the
+United States. It is a genuine American legend, and the facts from
+which it had its origin form the first chapter in the history of
+English colonization in North America. Those facts are found in the
+repeated attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh to establish an English colony
+in the New World. The Spaniards were in Florida, the French were in
+Nova Scotia, but England had gained no possessions in North America
+when Raleigh began his efforts. This fact assumes more importance when
+we remember that civilization has made the greatest progress in those
+parts of America where the English became dominant. In South America,
+dominated by the Spaniards, civilization has made no strides, while in
+the United States a new nation has arisen whose ultimate destiny none
+may limit or foretell. As the gates of a new century open and disclose
+almost unlimited fields for human progress, this new nation, with an
+enthusiasm and courage born of success, has taken her place to lead in
+the eternal forward search for better opportunities and higher life
+for the human race. All this grand destiny, all this ripening
+opportunity, like a harvest from a few seeds, is traced back, event
+after event, to the early struggles of those who braved the dangers of
+sea and forest in the attempts to colonize America. Those pioneer
+efforts, so generously promoted by Sir Walter Raleigh, though only
+partially successful, were the stepping-stones which later led to the
+better-known settlement of Jamestown, in Virginia. A brief _resume_ of
+those stepping-stones will make them familiar to all.
+
+In 1584 Queen Elizabeth made a grant to Raleigh for all the land from
+Nova Scotia to Florida, which was called Virginia, in honor of the
+Virgin Queen, as Elizabeth was called.
+
+The first expedition sent out under this grant was in the same year,
+1584, and was entirely at the expense of Sir Walter Raleigh, as were
+all of the expeditions up to 1590. It was solely for the purpose of
+exploration, and was under the command of Amadas and Barlowe, who,
+after coasting along the Atlantic shores, entered Pamlico Sound and
+landed on the island of Roanoak, on the coast of the present State of
+North Carolina. They made the acquaintance of the tribes there
+resident, explored the country on the coast, and returned to England to
+bear enthusiastic testimony to the delightsomeness of the country. They
+took with them back to England two native Indian chiefs, Manteo and
+Wanchese, who returned to America on a subsequent voyage, as the
+official records tell.
+
+The following year, 1585, a colony of one hundred and seven men landed
+on this same island of Roanoak. They came organized to occupy and
+possess the land granted to Raleigh, and to secure such benefits
+therefrom as in those days were deemed valuable. They remained one
+year, exploring the country and trying to establish relations with the
+Indians. They built houses, planted crops, and looked forward to the
+arrival of more men and food, which had been promised from England. But
+no ships came, provisions grew scarce, and before the crops they had
+planted were mature enough to harvest, Sir Francis Drake, the great
+sea-rover of that day, appeared off the island with a fleet of vessels.
+
+Knowing the dangers of that coast, he did not attempt to come to the
+island, but sent in to learn of the welfare of the colony, and offered
+to supply their immediate needs. They asked, among other things, that
+their sick and weak men be taken back to England, that food for those
+who remained be given them, and for a vessel in which they might return
+home if they so desired, all of which Drake granted. But a dreadful
+storm arose, which lasted three days and drove the promised vessel out
+to sea, with a goodly number of the colonists and the promised food on
+board. Seeing thus a part of their number and their food gone, the
+remaining colonists became homesick and panic-stricken and begged Drake
+to take them _all_ to England, which he did. Thus ended the first
+attempt at English colonization in North America.
+
+Fifteen days after their departure Sir Richard Grenville arrived with
+three vessels, bringing the promised supplies, but found the men gone.
+Wishing to hold the country for England until another colony could
+arrive, he left fifteen men on the island with provisions for two
+years, and he returned to England. Those fifteen men are supposed to
+have been murdered and captured by the Indians, as the next colony
+found only some bones, a ruined fort, and empty houses in which deer
+were feeding.
+
+The leaving of those fifteen men is considered the second attempt at
+colonization, and is recognized as a failure. But all success is built
+only by persistent repetition of effort, and so, in 1587, another
+colony came from England to this same island of Roanoak. Among those
+colonists were seventeen women and nine children, thus proving the
+intention of making permanent homes, and the hope of establishing
+family ties which should for all time unite England and North America.
+A few days after the arrival of this colony at Roanoak, Virginia Dare
+was born,--she being the first child born of English parents on the
+soil of North America,--and because she was the first child born in
+Virginia she was called Virginia. Her mother, Eleanor Dare, was the
+daughter of John White, the governor of the colony, and the wife of one
+of the assistant governors.
+
+The Sunday following her birth she was baptized, this being another
+fact of official record.
+
+By Sir Walter Raleigh's command the rite of baptism had been
+administered, a few days earlier, to Manteo, an Indian chief, who had
+visited England with a returning expedition, as previously mentioned.
+This baptism of the adult Indian and of the white infant were the first
+Christian sacraments administered in North America, and are worthy of
+commemoration.
+
+The colonists soon found that to make possible and permanent their home
+in a new land many things were needed more than they had provided. So
+at their urgent request their leader, Governor White, grandfather of
+Virginia Dare, consented to return to England to secure the needed
+supplies, with which he was to return to them the following year. When
+White reached England he found war going on with Spain, and England
+threatened with an invasion by the famous Spanish Armada. His queen
+needed and demanded his services, and not until 1590--three years
+later--did he succeed in returning to America. When at last he came the
+colonists had disappeared, and the only clue to their fate was the word
+"Croatoan," which he found carved on a tree; it having been agreed
+between them that if they changed their place of abode in his absence
+they would carve on a tree the name of the place to which they had
+gone.
+
+The arrival of those colonists, the birth and baptism of Virginia Dare,
+the return of White to England, the disappearance of the colony, and
+the finding of the word Croatoan, these facts form the record of that
+colony, the disappearance of which is a mystery which history has not
+solved.
+
+But tradition illumines many periods of the past which history leaves
+in darkness, and tradition tells how this colony found among friendly
+Indians a refuge from the dangers of Roanoak Island, and how this
+infant grew into fair maidenhood, and was changed by the sorcery of a
+rejected lover into _a white doe_, which roamed the lonely island and
+bore a charmed life, and how finally true love triumphed over magic and
+restored her to human form,--only to result in the death of the maiden
+from a silver arrow shot by a cruel chieftain.
+
+This tradition of a white doe and a silver arrow has survived through
+three centuries, and not only lingers where the events occurred, but
+some portions of it are found wherever in our land forests abound and
+deer abide. From Maine to Florida lumbermen are everywhere familiar
+with an old superstition that to see a white doe is an evil omen. In
+some localities lumbermen will quit work if a white deer is seen. That
+such a creature as a white deer really exists is demonstrated by their
+capture and exhibition in menageries, and to-day the rude hunters of
+the Alleghany Mountains believe that only a silver arrow will kill a
+white deer.
+
+The disappearance of this colony has been truly called "the tragedy of
+American colonization," and around it has hung a pathetic interest
+which ever leads to renewed investigation, in the hope of solving the
+mystery. From recent search into the subject by students of history a
+chain of evidence has been woven from which it has come to be believed
+that the lost colony, hopeless of succor from England, and deprived of
+all other human associations, became a part of a tribe of friendly
+Croatoan Indians, shared their wanderings, and intermarried with them,
+and that their descendants are to be found to-day among the Croatoan
+Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina.
+
+(Those who desire to investigate this supposed solution of the mystery
+can easily secure the facts and the conclusions formed by those who
+have made a careful study of the subject.)
+
+Of course, it can never be known _certainly_ whether Virginia Dare was
+or was not of that number, but the full tradition of her life among the
+Indians is embodied in the legend of The White Doe.
+
+Much has been written about the Indian princess Pocahontas, and much
+sentiment has clustered around her association with the Jamestown
+colony, while few have given thought to the young English girl whose
+birth, baptism, and mysterious disappearance link her forever with the
+earlier tragedies of the same era of history. It seems a strange
+coincidence that the Indian maiden Pocahontas, friend and companion of
+the _White_ Man, having adopted _his_ people as her own, should sleep
+in death on English soil, while the English maiden, Virginia Dare,
+friend and companion of the _Red_ Man, having adopted his people as
+_her_ own, should sleep in death on American soil,--the two maidens
+thus exchanging nationality, and linking in life and in death the two
+countries whose destinies seem most naturally to intermingle.
+
+The scattered fragments of this legend have been carefully collected
+and woven into symmetry for preservation. Notes from authentic sources
+have been appended for the benefit of searchers into the historical
+basis of the poem, which is offered to the public with the hope that it
+may increase interest in the early history of our home land and
+strengthen the tie which binds England and the United States.
+
+                                          SALLIE SOUTHALL COTTEN.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                            PAGE
+
+FORGOTTEN FACTS AND FANCIES OF AMERICAN HISTORY                i
+
+PREFACE                                                        5
+
+PROLOGUE                                                      19
+
+THE SEEDS OF TRUTH                                            23
+
+
+THE LEGEND OF THE WHITE DOE
+
+  I.--THE REFUGEES                                            31
+
+ II.--THE PALE-FACE MAIDEN                                    42
+
+III.--SAVAGE SORCERY                                          46
+
+ IV.--THE COUNTER-CHARM                                       55
+
+  V.--THE HUNT                                                63
+
+ VI.--THE SILVER ARROW                                        72
+
+APPENDIX                                                      81
+
+
+
+
+ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+_1 "While within its bright'ning dimness,
+    With the misty halo 'round her,
+    Stood a beautiful white maiden"_                 FRONTISPIECE
+
+_2 A Scuppernong Vineyard, Roanoak Island_                    _x_
+
+_3 Old "Mother" Scuppernong Vine_                           _xii_
+
+_4 Among the Scuppernongs.--A Modern Vineyard_              _xiv_
+
+_5 A "Virginia Dare" Vineyard_                              _xvi_
+
+_6 The Arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia_                _23_
+
+_7 "The Fierce, Brawny Red Man is King of the Wold"_         _24_
+
+_8 The Land-of-Wind-and-Water_                               _32_
+
+_9 Man-te-o, a Chiefe Lorde of Roanoak_                      _34_
+
+_10 "Then a New Canoe he fashioned"_                         _52_
+
+_11 The Magician of Po-mou-ik_                               _58_
+
+Frontispiece from an original drawing by May Louise
+Barrett.
+
+Maps and remaining illustrations reproduced from
+Theodore de Bry's edition of "The True Pictures and
+Fashions of the People in that Parte of America now
+called Virginia," 1590.
+
+
+
+
+PROLOGUE
+
+
+In the tomb of vanished ages sleep th' ungarnered truths of Time,
+Where the pall of silence covers deeds of honor and of crime;
+Deeds of sacrifice and danger, which the careless earth forgets,
+There, in ever-deep'ning shadows, lie embalmed in mute regrets.
+Would-be-gleaners of the Present vainly grope amid this gloom;
+Flowers of Truth to be immortal must be gathered while they bloom,
+Else they pass into the Silence, man's neglect their only blight,
+And the Gleaner of the Ages stores them far from human sight.
+Yet a perfume, sweet and subtle, lingers where each flower grew,
+Rising from the shattered petals, bathed and freshened by the dew;
+And this perfume, in the twilight, forms a mist beneath the skies,
+Out of which, like airy phantoms, legends and traditions rise;
+For the Seeds of Truth are buried in a legend's inmost heart,
+To transplant them in the sunlight justifies the poet's art.
+
+[Illustration: The arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia]
+
+
+
+
+THE SEEDS OF TRUTH
+
+ROANOAK, 1587
+
+
+Shimmering waters, aweary of tossing,
+Hopeful of rest, ripple on to the shore;
+Dimpling with light, as they waver and quiver,
+Echoing faintly the ocean's wild roar.
+Locked in the arms of the tremulous waters
+Nestles an island, with beauty abloom,
+Where the warm kiss of an amorous summer
+Fills all the air with a languid perfume.
+Windward, the roar of the turbulent breakers
+Warns of the dangers of rock and of reef;
+Burdened with mem'ries of sorrowful shipwreck,
+They break on the sands in torrents of grief.
+Leeward, the forest, grown giant in greenness,
+Shelters a land where a fervid sun shines;
+Wild with the beauty of riotous nature,
+Thick with the tangles of fruit-laden vines.[A]
+From fragrant clusters, grown purple with ripeness,
+Rare, spicy odors float out to the sea,[B]
+Where the gray gulls flit with restless endeavor,
+Skimming the waves in their frolicsome glee.
+
+Out from the shore stalks the stately white heron,
+Seeking his food from the deep without fear,
+Gracefully waving wide wings as he rises
+When the canoe of the Indian draws near.
+Through reedy brake and the tangled sea-grasses
+Wander the stag and the timid-eyed doe[C]
+Down to the water's edge, watchful and wary
+For arrows that fly from the red hunter's bow.
+Fearless Red Hunter! his birthright the forest,
+Lithe as the antelope, joyous and free.
+Trusting his bow for his food and his freedom,
+Wresting a tribute from forest and sea,
+No chilling forecast of doom in the future
+Daunts his brave spirit, by freedom made bold.
+Far o'er the wildwood he roams at his pleasure,
+The fierce, brawny Red Man is king of the wold.
+
+[Illustration: "The fierce, brawny Red Man is king of the wold"]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Lo! in the offing the white sails are gleaming,
+Ships from afar to the land drawing nigh;
+Laden with men, strong and brave to meet danger,
+Stalwart of form, fair of skin, blue of eye.
+Boldly they land where the white man is alien;
+Women are with them, with hearts true and brave;
+Sadly they stand where their countrymen perished,[D]
+Seeking a home where _they_ found but a grave.
+
+Friendly red hunters greet them with kindness,
+Tell the sad tale how their countrymen died,[E]
+Beg for a token of friendship and safety,[F]
+Promise in love and in peace to abide.
+Manteo's heart glows with friendly remembrance,
+He greets them as brothers and offers good cheer;
+No thrill of welcome is felt by Wanchese,[G]
+His heart is bitter with malice and fear.
+Envying men his superiors in wisdom,
+Fearing a race his superiors in skill;
+Sullen and silent he watches the strangers,
+Whom from the first he determines to kill.
+
+Then the sign of the Cross, on the brow of the Indian,[H]
+Seals to the savage the promise of life;
+Sweet symbol of sacrifice, emblem of duty,
+Standard of Peace, though borne amidst strife:
+Draped with the sombre, stained banner of Conquest,
+Dark with the guilt of man's murder and greed,
+Yet bright with God's message of love and forgiveness
+Unto a universe welded to creed.
+
+Gently the morning breeze tosses the tree-tops,
+Low ebbs the tide on the outlying sand;
+When a tiny white babe opens eyes to the sunlight,[I]
+Heaven's sweet pledge for the weal of the land.
+Babe of the Wilderness! tenderly cherished!
+Signed with the Cross on the next Sabbath Day;
+Brave English Mother! through danger and sorrow,
+For a nation of Christians thou leadest the way.
+
+Back to the home-land, across the deep water,
+Goes the wise leader, their needs to abate;[J]
+Leaving with sorrow the babe and its mother
+In a strange land as a hostage to Fate.
+Many long months pass in busy home-making,
+Sweet English customs prevail on the isle;
+Anxious eyes watch for the ship in the offing,
+Saddened hearts droop, but the lips bravely smile.
+
+Gone are the sweet dreamy days of the summer,
+In from the ocean the winter winds shriek;
+Dangers encompass and enemies threaten,
+Mother and child other refuge must seek.
+Mother and child, as in Bethlehem story,
+Flee from the hate of their blood-thirsty foes;
+Hopeless of help from their own land and people,
+They seek friendly tribes to find rest from their woes.
+
+To the fair borders of Croatoan Island,
+Over the night-covered waters they flee;
+Seeking for safety with Manteo's people,
+Leaving the word "Croatoan" on a tree.[K]
+Name of the refuge in which they sought shelter,
+Only the name of a tribe, nothing more;[L]
+Sign whereby those who would seek them might follow
+To their new home on the Croatoan's shore.
+
+Why did they leave the rude fort they had builded?
+Why did they seek far away a new home?
+O innocent babe! Roanoak's lost nestling!
+How shall we learn where thy footsteps did roam?
+'Mid the rude tribes of the primeval forest,
+Bearing the signet of Christ on thy brow,
+Wert thou the teacher and guide of the savage?
+Who, of thy mission, can aught tell us now?
+Through the dim ages comes only the perfume,
+Left where the flowers of Truth fell to earth;
+With ne'er a gleaner to treasure the blossoms,
+Save the sweet petals of baptism and birth.
+Vainly we seek on Time's shore for thy footprints,
+Hid in a mist of pathos is thy fate;
+Yet of a life under savage enchantment
+Quaint Indian legends do strangely relate.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote A: See Appendix, Note _a_.]
+
+[Footnote B: See Appendix, Note _b_.]
+
+[Footnote C: See Appendix, Note _c_.]
+
+[Footnote D: See Appendix, Note _d_.]
+
+[Footnote E: See Appendix, Note _e_.]
+
+[Footnote F: See Appendix, Note _e_.]
+
+[Footnote G: Pronounced Wan-chess-e.]
+
+[Footnote H: See Appendix, Note _f_.]
+
+[Footnote I: See Appendix, Note _g_.]
+
+[Footnote J: See Appendix, Note _h_.]
+
+[Footnote K: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote L: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+
+
+
+THE LEGEND OF THE WHITE DOE
+
+
+
+
+I
+
+THE REFUGEES
+
+
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water,
+Loud the sea bemoaned its sameness;
+Dashing shoreward with impatience
+To explore the landward mysteries.
+On the sand the waves spread boldly,
+Vainly striving to reach higher;
+Then abashed by vain ambition,
+Glided to their ordained duty.
+There the pine-tree, tall and stately,
+Whispered low the ocean's murmur;
+Strove to soothe the restless waters
+With its lullaby of sighing.
+There the tall and dank sea-grasses,
+From the storm-tide gathered secrets
+Of the caverns filled with treasures,
+Milky pearls and tinted coral,
+Stores of amber and of jacinth,
+In the caves festooned with sea-weed,
+Where the Sea-King held his revels
+And the Naiads danced in beauty.
+In this Land-of-Wind-and-Water,
+Dowered with the sunshine's splendor,
+Juicy grapes grew in profusion,
+Draping all the trees with greenness,
+And the maize grew hard and yellow,
+With the sunshine in its kernels.
+Through the forest roamed the black bear,
+And the red deer boldly herded;
+Through the air flew birds of flavor,
+And the sea was full of fishes,
+Till the Red Man knew no hunger,
+And his wigwam hung with trophies.
+
+[Illustration: The Land-of-Wind-and-Water]
+
+There brave Man-te-o, the Faithful,
+Ruled the Cro-a-to-ans with firmness,
+Dwelt in peace beside the waters,
+Smoked his pipe beneath the pine-tree,
+Gazed with pride upon his bear-skins
+Which hung ready for the winter.
+Told his people all the marvels
+Of the Land-of-the-Pale-Faces;
+Of the ships with wings like sea-birds
+Wherein he had crossed the water;[M]
+Of the Pale-Face Weroanza[N]
+Whom he saw in her own country;
+Of her robes of silken texture,
+Of her wisdom and her power;
+Told them of her warlike people
+And their ships which breathed the lightning.
+How he pledged with them a friendship,
+Hoping they would come to teach him
+How to make his people mighty,
+How to make them strong in battle
+So the other tribes would fear them.
+And the dream of future greatness
+Filled the Cro-a-to-ans with courage;
+And their hearts grew warm and friendly
+To the race of white-faced strangers.
+
+When bold white men came among them,
+To the isle of Ro-a-no-ak,
+Man-te-o, the friendly Weroance,
+Faithful proved to all his pledges.
+Smoked with them the pipe of friendship,
+Took their God to be his Father;
+Took upon his swarthy forehead
+Their strange emblem of salvation,[O]
+Emblem of the One Great Spirit,
+Father of all tribes and nations.
+Man-te-o, the friend and brother,
+Bade them fear the false Wan-ches-e,
+And the Weroance Win-gin-a,
+Whose hearts burned with bitter hatred
+For the men they feared in combat,
+For the strangers who defied them.
+
+[Illustration: Man-te-o, a chiefe lorde of Roanoak]
+
+When the Pale-Face, weak and hungry,
+Feeble from continued labor,
+Shivered in the blasts of winter
+Which blew cold across the water,
+Then Wan-ches-e planned their ruin,
+With Win-gin-a sought to slay them.
+
+To the isle of Ro-a-no-ak,
+Where the Pale-Face slept unguarded,
+Sped the swift canoes of Red Men,
+Gliding through the silent shadows.
+As the sky grew red with dawning,[P]
+While they dreamed of home and kindred,
+Suddenly with whoop of murder
+Wily Indians swarmed around them.
+
+Skill of Pale-Face, craft of Red Man,
+Met in fierce, determined battle;
+While within the Fort called Ralegh
+Many arrows fell, like raindrops.
+Arrows tipped with serpent's poison,
+Arrows tipped with blazing rosin,
+Winged with savage thirst for murder,
+Aimed with cruel skill to torture.
+Threatened by the blazing roof-tree
+Then the Pale-Face crouched in terror;
+Saw the folly of resistance,
+Feared his doom, and fled for safety.
+
+Man-te-o, alert for danger,
+From afar saw signs of conflict;
+Saw the waves of smoke ascending
+Heavenward, like prayers for rescue.
+Swift, with boats and trusty warriors,
+Crossed he then to Ro-a-no-ak;
+Strong to help his Pale-Face brothers,
+Faithful to his friendly pledges.
+
+As the daylight slowly faded,
+Hopeless of the bloody struggle,
+Stealthily the Pale-Face warriors
+Fled with Man-te-o's brave people.
+Left they then the Fort called Ralegh,
+Left the dead within its stockade;
+Sought another island refuge,
+Hoping there to rest in safety.
+
+Man-te-o sought for the mother,[Q]
+She with babe there born and nurtured
+'Neath the shadow of disaster,
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water.
+"Come," said he, "the darkness falleth,
+All your people must flee henceward;
+Wan-ches-e will show no mercy,
+You must not become his captive.
+Take the papoose from thy bosom,
+Call the white chief whom thou lovest,
+Haste with me upon the flood-tide
+To my wigwam on Wo-ko-kon."
+
+Noiseless, she amid the conflict
+Sought her heart's mate to flee with her;
+Useless all the strife and courage,
+Useless all the rude home-making;
+Shrine for worship, fort for safety,
+Hope of future peace and plenty,
+All were vain; yet life we cherish,
+Far above all boons we hold it:
+So she hastened on her mission
+For the life of self and loved ones.
+
+As they neared the island border,
+Pale-Face husband, child, and mother,
+Man-te-o in silence leading,
+Every sense alive to danger,
+Suddenly the Pale-Face father
+Thought him of the parting caution
+Given by their absent leader:
+If they fled in search of safety
+On a tree to leave a token,
+Whereby he might surely find them,
+In the land which gave them shelter,
+When he came again to seek them.[R]
+
+By his side a sturdy live-oak
+Spread its green, protecting branches;
+Quick he strove to carve the token
+Which should speak to all who followed.
+C. R. O., in bold, plain letters[S]
+Cut he in the tree's firm body,
+When a random, poisoned arrow
+Pierced his heart, and he fell lifeless.
+
+With a smothered cry of horror,
+In an agony of sorrow,
+She would fain have lingered near him,
+But that Man-te-o urged onward.
+If discovered, flight was futile,
+Weakness now meant worse disaster;
+She must save her helpless baby
+Though her heart be rent with anguish.
+
+Frantic with love's desolation,
+Strong with thoughts of home and father,
+With a woman's wondrous calmness
+When great peril calls for action,
+Safe she placed the sleeping infant
+'Cross the brawny arms of Man-te-o,
+While with knife drawn from his girdle
+Carved she on another live-oak
+Plain, the one word "CROATOAN"[T]
+As a sign to all her people.
+Trusting all to savage friendship,
+Cutting hope with every letter,
+Praying God to guide her father
+To the haven she was seeking.
+
+Trust is woman's strongest bulwark,
+All true manhood yields unto it.
+As her sad eyes turned upon him
+Man-te-o was moved with pity
+For the brave and tender woman,
+Friendless in the land without him.
+
+On the brow of Pale-Face baby
+First he made the Holy Cross-Sign;
+Then upon the sad-eyed mother
+Traced the sign her people taught him;
+Then again the sacred symbol
+Outlined on his own dark forehead;
+And with open hand uplifted
+Sealed his promise of protection;
+Linking thus his pledge of safety
+With her faith in Unseen Power.
+
+Mute with grief, she trusted in him;
+In his boat they crossed the water,
+While the night fell like a mantle
+Spread in mercy to help save them.
+
+When in Cro-a-to-an they landed,
+There they found the few survivors
+Of that day of doom to many,
+Glad once more to greet each other.
+Man-te-o within his wigwam
+From the cold wind gave them shelter,
+Shared with them his furry bear-skins,
+Made them warm, and warmth gave courage
+To meet life's relentless duties.
+
+Then he summoned all the people,
+Called the old men and the young men,
+Bade the squaws to come and listen,
+Showed the papoose to the women.
+They gazed on its tender whiteness,
+Stroked the mother's flaxen tresses;
+"'Tis a snow-papoose" they whispered,
+"It will melt when comes the summer."
+
+Man-te-o said to the warriors:
+"Ye all know these Pale-Face people
+Whom Wan-ches-e sought to murder,
+They have often made us welcome.
+Brave their hearts, but few are living,
+If left friendless these will perish;
+We have store of corn and venison,
+They are hungry, let us feed them;
+They have lightning for their arrows,
+Let them teach us how to shoot it.
+They with us shall search the forest,
+And our game shall be abundant;
+Let them teach us their strange wisdom
+And become with us one people."
+
+And the old men, grave in counsel,
+And the young men, mute with deference,
+While the uppowoc[U] was burning,
+Pondered on his words thus spoken,
+And to Man-te-o gave answer:
+"All your words are full of wisdom;
+We will share with them our venison,
+They shall be as our own people."
+
+From the isle of Ro-a-no-ak
+Thus the Pale-Face fled for succor,
+Thus in Cro-a-to-an's fair borders
+Found a home with friendly Red Men.
+Nevermore to see white faces,
+Nevermore to see their home-land,
+Yet to all the future ages
+Sending proof of honest daring;
+Forging thus a link of effort
+In the chain of human progress.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote M: See Appendix, Note _l_.]
+
+[Footnote N: Queen Elizabeth.]
+
+[Footnote O: See Appendix, Note _f_.]
+
+[Footnote P: See Appendix, Note _m_.]
+
+[Footnote Q: Eleanor Dare.]
+
+[Footnote R: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote S: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote T: See Appendix, Note _k_.]
+
+[Footnote U: Tobacco.]
+
+
+
+
+II
+
+THE PALE-FACE MAIDEN
+
+
+Nature feels no throb of pity,
+Makes no pause for human heartbreak;
+Though with agony we quiver,
+She gives forth no sign of feeling.
+Waxed and waned the moon, in season,
+Ebbed and flowed the tides obedient;
+Summers filled the land with plenty,
+Winters chilled the summers' ardor.
+No winged ships gleamed in the offing;
+No Pale-Faces sought their kindred;
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water
+Roamed the Red Man unmolested.
+
+While the babe of Ro-a-no-ak
+Grew in strength and wondrous beauty;
+Like a flower of the wildwood,
+Bloomed beside the Indian maidens.
+And Wi-no-na Ska[V] they called her,
+She of all the maidens fairest.
+In the tangles of her tresses
+Sunbeams lingered, pale and yellow;
+In her eyes the limpid blueness
+Of the noonday sky was mirrored.
+And the squaws of darksome features
+Smiled upon her fair young beauty;
+Felt their woman hearts within them
+Warming to the Pale-Face maiden.
+And the braves, who scorned all weakness,
+Listened to her artless prattle,
+While their savage natures softened,
+Of the change themselves unconscious.
+
+Like the light of summer morning
+Beaming on a world in slumber
+Was the face of young Wi-no-na
+To the Cro-a-to-ans who loved her.
+She, whose mind bore in its dawning
+Impress of developed races,
+To the rude, untutored savage
+Seemed divinely 'dowed with reason.
+She, the heir of civilization,
+They, the slaves of superstition,
+Gave to her a silent rev'rence,
+Growing better with such giving.
+Oft she told them that the Cross-Sign,
+Made by Man-te-o before them
+When he talked to his own nation,
+Was the symbol of a Spirit
+Great, and good, and wise, and loving;
+He who kept the maize-fields fruitful,
+He who filled the sea with fishes,
+He who made the sun to warm them
+And sent game to feed His children.
+
+If, when in their games or councils,
+They grew quarrelsome and angry,
+Suddenly among them standing
+Was a maiden like the sunrise,
+Making with her taper finger
+This strange sign which they respected;
+And without a word of pleading
+Strife and wrath would no more vex them,
+While the influence of her presence
+Lingered 'round them like enchantment.
+
+Thus the babe of Ro-a-no-ak
+Grew to be the joy and teacher
+Of a tribe of native heathen
+In the land which gave her shelter.
+And the tide of her affections
+Flowed to those who gave her friendship;
+Whom alone she knew as human,
+Whom to her became as kindred.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote V: Literally, "first-born white daughter."]
+
+
+
+
+III
+
+SAVAGE SORCERY
+
+
+Man-to-ac, the Mighty Father,
+When he filled the earth with blessings,
+Deep within the heart of Woman
+Hid the burning Need-of-Loving;
+Which through her should warm the ages
+With a flame of mutual feeling,
+Throbbing through her sons and daughters
+With a force beyond their power.
+And this law of human loving,
+Changeless through unending changes,
+Fills each living heart with yearning
+For another heart to love it;
+And against this ceaseless craving
+Creed, nor clime, nor color standeth;
+Heart to heart all nature crieth
+That the earth may thrill with gladness.
+
+So the young braves of the nation,
+Thrilled with love for fair Wi-no-na,
+Made rude ornaments to please her,
+Laid the red deer at her wigwam.
+Brought her skins of furry rabbits
+Soft and white as her own skin was;
+Robbed the black bear and the otter
+That her bed might soft and warm be.
+And the children of the forest
+Were uplifted by such loving
+Of a higher type of being,
+Who yet throbbed with human instincts.
+
+Brave O-kis-ko loved the maiden
+With a love which made him noble;
+With the love that self-forgetting
+Fills the soul with higher impulse.
+As the sun with constant fervor,
+Heat and light to earth bestowing,
+Seeks for no return of blessing,
+Feels no loss for all his giving,
+So O-kis-ko loved Wi-no-na,
+Gave her all his heart's rude homage,
+Felt no loss for all his giving,
+Loved her for the joy of loving.
+Scorned he all fatigue and danger
+Which would bring her food or pleasure;
+And each day brought proof of fealty,
+For his deeds were more than language.
+
+For her sake he tried to fasten
+To his rude canoe white pinions
+Like the winged ships of the white man,
+That with her he might sail boldly
+Out towards the rosy sunrise,
+Seeking for her lost grandsire[W]
+For whose coming her heart saddened.
+Though his red companions mocked him,
+His endeavor pleased the maiden,
+And her eyes beamed kindly on him,
+Though no passion stirred her pulses.
+For sweet maiden hopes and fancies
+Filled her life with happy dreaming
+Ere her woman's heart awakened
+To O-kis-ko's patient waiting.
+Waiting for her eyes to brighten
+'Neath the ardor of his glances;
+Waiting for her soul to quicken
+With the answer to his longing;
+Finding sweet content in silence,
+Glad each day to see and serve her.
+
+Now old Chi-co, the Magician,
+Also loved the fair Wi-no-na,
+All his youth to him returning
+As he gazed upon her beauty.
+In his wigwam pelt of gray wolf,
+Antlers of the deer and bison,
+Hung to prove his deeds of valor;
+And he wooed the gentle maiden
+With his cunning tales of prowess.
+
+She would not rebuke his boasting,
+Fearful lest her words offend him;
+For her nature kind and loving
+Could not scorn the vaunting Chi-co.
+
+When he walked among the maidens,
+Gay with paint and decked with feathers,
+She would look on him with kindness
+That the others might not scoff him;
+She would smile upon his weakness,
+Though she did not wish to wed him.
+
+Chi-co's love was fierce as fire
+Which from flame yields only ashes;
+Which gives not for joy of giving,
+But demands unceasing tribute,
+More and more to feed its craving.
+He grew eager and impatient,
+He would share with none her favor;
+All for him her eyes must brighten,
+Else his frown would blight her pleasure.
+
+When the young men played or wrestled,
+If O-kis-ko came out victor;
+Or returning with the hunters
+He it was who bore the stag home;
+If with eyes abrim with pleasure
+Sweet Wi-no-na smiled upon him,
+Or with timid maiden shyness
+Drooped her eyes beneath his glances,
+Then old Chi-co's heart would wither
+With the fire of jealous fury,
+Till at length in bitter anger
+He determined none should win her,
+As from him she turned in coldness.
+
+Wrapped in silence grim and sullen,
+Much he wandered near the water;
+With his soul he took dark counsel,
+Seeking for devices cruel
+For the torture of his rival
+And destruction of the maiden.
+
+Though he rarely used his power,
+Chi-co was a great magician.
+He knew all the spells of starlight
+And the link 'tween moon and water;
+Knew the language of lost spirits
+And the secret of their power;
+Knew the magic words and symbols
+Whereby man may conquer nature.
+
+Long he plotted,--much he brooded,
+While he gathered from the water
+Mussel-pearls all streaked and pieded,[X]
+All with rays like purple halos.
+
+Such pearls are the souls of Naiads
+Who have disobeyed the Sea-King,
+And in mussel-shells are prisoned
+For this taint of human frailty.
+When by man released from durance
+These souls, grateful for their freedom,
+Are his slaves, and ever render
+Good or evil at his bidding.
+
+Chi-co steeped each one he gathered
+In a bath of mystic brewing;
+Told each purple, pieded pearl-drop
+What the evil was he plotted.
+Never once his purpose wavered,
+Never once his fury lessened;
+Nursing vengeance as a guerdon
+While the mussel-pearls he polished.
+
+Then a new canoe he fashioned,
+Safe, and strong, and deep he made it;[Y]
+And then sought to work his magic
+On the innocent Wi-no-na;
+Asked the maiden to go with him
+In his boat across the water.
+"Come," said he, "to Ro-a-no-ak,
+Where the waves are white with blossoms,
+Where the grapes hang ripe in clusters,
+Come with me and drink their juices."
+
+[Illustration: "Then a new canoe he fashioned"]
+
+And the innocent Wi-no-na
+Listened to his artful pleading;
+Went with him in search of pleasure,
+Glad to show him friendly feeling.
+
+While with idle stroke they floated
+To the fragrant lily-blossoms,
+He a string of pearls gave to her,
+Smooth and polished, pied and purple.
+'Round her snowy neck she placed them
+With no thought of harm or cunning;
+And with simple, maiden speeches
+Filled the time as they sped onward.
+
+To each pearl had Chi-co chanted,
+Each had bathed in mystic water,
+Each held fast the same weird power,
+Till the time grew ripe for evil.
+On the waves they could not harm her,
+There the Sea-King ruled them ever;
+But when on the shore she landed
+They would work their evil mission.
+
+On the shore of Ro-a-no-ak
+Chi-co sent his boat with vigor.
+Lithe and happy she sprang shoreward,
+When,--from where her foot first lightly
+Pressed the sand with human imprint,--
+On--away--towards the thicket,
+Sprang _a White Doe_, fleet and graceful.
+
+His revenge thus wrought in safety,
+Drifting seaward Chi-co chanted:
+"Go, White Doe, hide in the forest,
+Feed upon the sweet wild-grasses;
+No winged arrow e'er shall harm you,
+No Red Hunter e'er shall win you;
+Roam forever, fleet and fearless,
+Living free and yet in fetters."
+
+O fair maiden! born and nurtured
+'Neath the shadow of disaster!
+Isle of Fate was Ro-a-no-ak,
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water.
+Nevermore to fill with gladness
+The sad heart of stricken mother;
+Nevermore to hear the wooing
+Of the brave and true O-kis-ko.
+Gone thy charm of youthful beauty,
+Gone thy sway o'er savage natures;
+Doomed to flee before the hunter,
+Doomed to roam the lonely island,
+Doomed to bondage e'en in freedom.
+Is the seal of doom eternal?
+Hath the mussel-pearl all power?
+Cannot _love_ thy fetters loosen?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote W: Governor White, of the lost colony.]
+
+[Footnote X: See Appendix, Note _n_.]
+
+[Footnote Y: See Appendix, Note _o_.]
+
+
+
+
+IV
+
+THE COUNTER-CHARM
+
+
+Man-te-o and all his warriors
+Long and far sought for Wi-no-na;
+Sought to find the sky-eyed maiden
+Sent by Man-to-ac, the Mighty,
+To the Cro-a-to-ans to bless them,
+And to make them wise and happy.
+As a being more than mortal,
+As a deity they held her;
+And when no more seen among them
+Lamentations filled the island.
+Through Wo-ko-kon's sandy stretches,
+Through the bog-lands of Po-mou-ik,
+Even unto Das-a-mon-que-peu,
+Hunted they the missing maiden;
+If perchance some other nation,
+Envious of their peace and plenty,
+Had the maiden boldly captured,
+For themselves to win her power.
+Louder grew their lamentations
+When they found no trail to follow;
+Wilder grew their threats of vengeance
+'Gainst the tribe which held her captive.
+
+While they wailed the Pale-Face Mother,
+She who once was brave for love's sake,
+Weak from hardships new and wearing,
+Utterly bereft of kindred,
+Her heart's comfort thus torn from her,
+Died beneath her weight of sorrow.
+And a pity, soft and human,
+Though he knew no name to call it,
+Thrilled the Red Man as he laid her
+'Neath the forest leaves to slumber.
+
+But the wary, wily Chi-co
+Told his secret unto no one,
+While he listened to the stories,
+Strange and true, told by the hunters
+Of a fleet and graceful White Doe
+On the banks of Ro-a-no-ak.
+And the hunters said, no arrow
+Howsoever aimed could reach her;
+Said the deer herd round her gathered,
+And where e'er she led they followed.
+
+The old women of the nation
+Heard the tales about this White Doe.
+Children they of superstition,
+With their faith firm in enchantment,
+Linked the _going_ of the maiden
+With the _coming_ of the White Doe.
+They believed in magic powers,
+They knew Chi-co's hopeless passion,
+So they shook their heads and whispered,
+Looked mysterious at each other,
+"Ho," they whispered to each other,
+"Chi-co is a great Magician,
+Chi-co should go hunt this White Doe;
+He is not too old for loving;
+Love keeps step with Youth and Courage;
+Old age should not make him tremble.
+Timid is a doe, and gentle
+Like a maiden,--like Wi-no-na.
+Oho! Oho!" and they chuckled,
+Casting dark looks at old Chi-co,
+"He," said they, "has 'witched our maiden."
+
+When O-kis-ko heard the whispers
+Of the garrulous old women,
+Glad belief he gave unto them
+That the Doe on Ro-a-no-ak
+Was in truth the Pale-Face Maiden
+Wrung from him by cruel magic.
+He was not a gabbling boaster,
+He could think and act in silence;
+And alone he roamed the island
+Seeking this White Doe to capture,
+So that he might tame and keep her
+Near him to assuage his sorrow.
+
+All in vain,--no hand could touch her.
+All in vain,--no hunter won her.
+Up the dunes of Ro-a-no-ak
+Still she led the herd of wild deer.
+
+Then O-kis-ko sought We-nau-don,
+The Magician of Po-mou-ik.[Z]
+Gave him store of skins and wampum,
+Promised all his greed demanded,
+If he would restore the maiden,
+Break the spell which held her spirit.
+
+[Illustration: The magician of Po-mou-ik]
+
+In his heart We-nau-don cherished
+Hatred for his rival Chi-co
+For some boyhood's cause of anger,
+For defeat in public wrestling;
+And because of this he welcomed
+Now the time to vent his malice.
+So he promised from enchantment
+To release the captive maiden.
+
+In the days of pristine nature,
+In the dells of Ro-a-no-ak,
+Bubbling from the earth's dark caverns,
+Was a spring of magic water.
+There the Naiads held their revels,
+There in secret met their lovers;
+And they laid a spell upon it
+Which should make true lovers happy;
+For to them true love was precious.
+
+He who drank of it at midnight
+When the Harvest Moon was brightest,
+Using as a drinking-vessel
+Skull-bowl of his greatest rival
+Killed in open, honest combat,
+And by summer sunshine whitened,
+He gained youth perennial from it
+And the heart he wished to love him.
+
+He who bathed within its waters,
+Having killed a dove while moaning,
+And had killed no other creature
+Since three crescent moons had rounded;
+Vowing to be kind and helpful
+To the sad and weary-hearted:
+He received the magic power
+To undo all spells of evil
+Which divided faithful lovers.
+
+In this spring had bathed We-nau-don,
+And he held its secrets sacred;
+But a feeling ever moved him
+To make glad the heavy-hearted.
+So he showed unto O-kis-ko
+Where to find the magic water;
+With this counter-charm, he told him
+How to free the charmed Wi-no-na:
+
+"In a shark's tooth, long and narrow
+In a closely wrought triangle,
+Set three mussel-pearls of purple,
+Smooth and polished with much rubbing.
+To an arrow of witch-hazel,
+New, and fashioned very slender,
+Set the shark's tooth, long and narrow,
+With its pearl-inlaid triangle.
+From the wing of living heron
+Pluck one feather, white and trusty;
+With this feather wing the arrow,
+That it swerve not as it flyeth.
+Fashioned thus with care and caution,
+Let no mortal eye gaze on it;
+Tell no mortal of your purpose;
+Secretly at sunset place it
+In the spring of magic water.
+Let it rest there through three sunsets,
+Then when sunrise gilds the tree-tops
+Take it dripping from the water,
+At the rising sun straight point it,
+While three times these words repeating:
+_Mussel-pearl arrow, to her heart go;
+Loosen the fetters which bind the White Doe;
+Bring the lost maiden back to O-kis-ko._
+With this arrow hunt the White Doe,
+Have no timid fear of wounding;
+When her heart it enters boldly
+Chi-co's charm will melt before it."
+
+Every word O-kis-ko heeded,
+Hope, once dead, now cheered his spirit.
+From the sea three pearls he gathered;
+From the thicket brought witch-hazel
+For the making of the arrow;
+From the heron's wing a feather
+Plucked to true its speed in flying.
+Patiently he cut and labored,
+As for love's sake man will labor;
+Shaped the arrow, new and slender,
+Set the pearls into the shark's tooth,
+Fastened firm the heron's feather,
+With a faith which mastered reason.
+In the magic spring he steeped it,
+Watching lest some eye should see it;
+Through three sunsets steeped and watched it;
+Three times o'er the charm repeated
+While the sunrise touched the tree-tops;
+Then prepared to test its power.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote Z: See Appendix, Note _s_.]
+
+
+
+
+V
+
+THE HUNT
+
+
+In the Land-of-Wind-and-Water
+Long the Summer-Glory lingered,
+Loath to yield its ripened beauty
+To the cold embrace of Winter.
+And the greenness of the forest
+Gave no sign of coming treason,
+Till the White Frost without warning
+Hung his banners from the tree-tops.
+Then a blush of brilliant color
+Decked each shrub with tinted beauty;
+Gold, and brown, and scarlet mingled
+Till no color seemed triumphant;
+And the Summer doomed to exile
+Fled before the chilling Autumn.
+
+While the glow of colors deepened,
+The proud Weroance Win-gin-a,
+Chief of Das-a-mon-gue-pue land,
+Made a feast for all his people;
+Called them forth with bow and arrow
+To a test of skill and valor.
+He was weary of the mysteries
+Whispered of the famous White Doe,
+Whose strange courage feared no hunter,
+For no arrow ever reached her.
+"Ha!" said he, "a skilful hunter
+Is not daunted by a white doe;
+Craven hearts make trembling fingers,
+Arrows fail when shot by cowards.
+_I_ will shoot this doe so fearless,
+Her white skin shall be my mantle,[AA]
+Her white meat shall serve for feasting,
+And my braves shall cease from fearing.
+From the fields the maize invites us,
+Sturgeons have been fat and plenty.
+We are weary of fish-eating,
+We will feast on meat of white deer."
+
+Messengers of invitation
+Sent he to the other nations,
+Saying, "Come and hunt the White Doe,
+Bring your surest, fleetest arrows;
+We will eat the meat of white deer,
+We will drink the purple grape-juice,
+Burn the uppowoc in pipe-bowls,
+While we shame the trembling hunters."
+
+But the Cro-a-to-ans kept silence,
+Sent no answer to his greeting.
+They believed the charmed White Doe
+Was Wi-no-na Ska's pure spirit,
+Who in freedom still was happy,
+And they would not wound or harm her,
+They would shoot no arrows at her,
+Nor help feast upon her body.
+
+Then O-kis-ko answered boldly;
+"I will go and hunt this White Doe,
+I will shoot from my own ambush,
+I will take my fleetest arrow."
+And the men and women wondered,
+For they knew his former loving.
+
+But O-kis-ko kept his secret,
+Showed no one his new-made arrow;
+'Round his shoulders threw a mantle
+Made of skins of many sea-gulls,
+So that he could hide his arrow,
+And no mortal eye could see it
+Till he sent it on its mission
+Winged with magic, fraught with mercy.
+
+Thus he went to Ro-a-no-ak,
+Love, and hope, and faith impelling,
+Conscious of his aim unerring,
+Trusting in the arrow's power.
+
+From Po-mou-ik came Wan-ches-e,
+For the hunt and feast impatient,
+Boasting of his skill and valor,
+Saying in his loud vainglory:
+"I will teach the braves to shoot deer,
+Young men now are not great hunters,
+Hearts like squaws they have within them,
+Nothing fears them but a papoose."
+
+Wan-ches-e had crossed the water[AB]
+In the ships with wings like sea-birds,
+And the Pale-Face Weroanza,
+Whom he saw in her own country,
+Him to please and show her friendship,
+Gave an arrow-head of silver
+To him as a mark of favor.
+
+This he now brought proudly with him,
+As of all his arrows fleetest;
+Bearing in its lustrous metal,
+As he thought, some gift of power
+From the mighty Weroanza
+Which would bring success unto him;
+And the warriors all would praise him
+As around the feast they gathered,
+Saying as he walked among them:
+"There is none like brave Wan-ches-e,
+He can bend the bow with firmness,
+He has arrow-points of silver,
+And the White Doe falls before him."
+And he polished well the arrow
+Which he thought would bring him praises.
+
+Where the deer were wont to wander
+All the hunters took their stations,
+While the stalkers sought the forest,
+From its depths to start the deer-herd.
+
+Near the shore Win-gin-a lingered
+That he first might shoot his arrow,
+And thus have the certain glory
+Of the White Doe's death upon him.
+
+By a pine-tree stood Wan-ches-e
+With his silver arrow ready;
+While O-kis-ko, unseen, waited
+Near by in his chosen ambush,
+Where he oft had watched the White Doe,
+Where he knew she always lingered.
+
+Soon the stalkers with great shouting
+Started up the frightened red deer;
+On they came through brake and thicket,
+In the front the White Doe leading,
+With fleet foot and head uplifted,
+Daring all the herd to follow.
+
+Easy seemed the task of killing,
+So Win-gin-a twanged his bow-string,
+But his arrow fell beside her
+As she sprang away from danger.
+
+Through the tanglewood, still onward,
+Head uplifted, her feet scorning
+All the wealth of bright-hued foliage
+Which lay scattered in her pathway.
+Up the high sand-dunes she bounded,
+In her wake the whole herd followed,
+While the arrows aimed from ambush
+Fell around her ever harmless.
+
+On she sped, towards the water,
+Nostrils spread to sniff the sea-breeze;
+Through the air a whizzing arrow
+Flew, but did not touch the White Doe;
+But a stag beside her bounding
+Wounded fell among the bushes,
+And the herd fled in confusion,
+Waiting now not for the leader.
+
+On again, with leaping footsteps,
+Tossing head turned to the sea-shore;
+For one fatal minute standing
+Where the White Man's Fort had once stood;
+In her eyes came wistful gleamings
+Like a lost hope's fleeting shadow.
+
+While with graceful poise she lingered,
+Swift, Wan-ches-e shot his arrow
+Aimed with cruel thought to kill her;
+While from near and secret ambush,
+With unerring aim, O-kis-ko
+Forward sent his magic arrow,
+Aimed with thought of love and mercy.
+
+To her heart straight went _both_ arrows,
+And with leap of pain she bounded
+From the earth, and then fell forward,
+Prone, amidst the forest splendor.
+O-kis-ko, with fond heart swelling,
+Wan-ches-e, with pride exultant,
+To the Doe both sprang to claim it,
+Each surprised to see the other.
+
+Suddenly, within the forest,
+Spread a gleaming mist around them,
+Like a dense white fog in summer,
+So they scarce could grope their pathway.
+Slowly, as if warmed by sunbeams,
+From one spot the soft mist melted,
+While within its bright'ning dimness,
+With the misty halo 'round her,
+Stood a beautiful white maiden,--
+_Stood the gentle, lost Wi-no-na_.
+
+Through her heart two arrows crosswise
+Pierced the flesh with cruel wounding;
+Downward flowed the crimson blood-tide,
+Staining red the snow-white doe-skin
+Which with grace her form enveloped,
+While her arms with pleading gesture
+To O-kis-ko were outstretching.
+
+As they gazed upon the vision,
+All their souls with wonder filling;
+While the white mist slowly melted,
+_Prostrate fell the wounded maiden_.
+
+Then revealed was all the myst'ry,
+Then they saw what had befallen.
+To her heart the magic arrow
+First had pierced, and lo! Wi-no-na
+Once more breathed in form of maiden.
+
+But while yet the charm was passing
+Came the arrow of Wan-ches-e;
+To her heart it pierced unerring,
+Pierced the pearl-inlaid triangle,
+Struck and broke the shark's tooth narrow,
+_Charm and counter-charm undoing_;
+Leaving but a mortal maiden
+Wounded past the hope of healing.
+
+Woe to love, and hope, and magic!
+Woe to hearts whom death divideth!
+While upon her bleeding bosom
+Fatal arrows made the Cross-Sign,
+Wistful eyes she turned to Heaven;
+"O forget not your Wi-no-na,"
+Whispered she unto O-kis-ko,
+As her soul passed to the silence.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote AA: See Appendix, Note _p_.]
+
+[Footnote AB: See Appendix, Note _l_.]
+
+
+
+
+VI
+
+THE SILVER ARROW
+
+
+Fear seized on the bold Wan-ches-e
+When he saw the Pale-Face maiden
+Standing where had poised the White Doe,
+Where the White Man's Fort had once stood.
+He knew naught of magic arrows,
+Nor O-kis-ko's secret mission;
+He saw only his own arrow
+Piercing through her tender bosom,
+Never doubting but the wonder
+Which his awe-struck eyes had witnessed
+Had been wrought by his own arrow,
+Silver arrow from a far land,
+Fashioned by the skill of Pale-Face,
+Gift of Pale-Face Weroanza
+To a race she willed to conquer.
+
+All his hatred of the Pale-Face,
+Fed by fear and superstition,
+To him made this sudden vision
+Seem an omen of the future,
+When the Red Man, like the White Doe,
+Should give place unto the Pale-Face,
+And the Indian, like the white mist,
+Fade from out his native forest.
+All his courage seemed to weaken
+With the dread of dark disaster;
+And with instincts strong for safety
+Fled he from the place in terror.
+
+Love hath not the fear of danger,
+And O-kis-ko's faith in magic
+Kept him brave to meet the changes
+Which had each so quickly followed.
+For he saw the human maiden
+Where had stood the living White Doe;
+And he knew his hazel arrow,
+Charmed with all We-nau-don's magic,
+Had restored the lost Wi-no-na
+To reward his patient loving.
+
+But the conflict of _two_ arrows,
+Bringing death unto the maiden,
+Was a deep and darksome myst'ry
+Which his ignorance could not fathom.
+All the cause of his undoing
+Saw he in the silver arrow;
+So with true love's tireless effort,
+Quick he strove to break its power.
+
+From her heart he plucked the arrow,
+Hastened to the magic water,
+Hoping to destroy the evil
+Which had stilled the maiden's pulses.
+In the sparkling spring he laid it
+So no spot was left uncovered,
+So the full charm of the water
+Might act on the blood-stained arrow.
+
+As the blood-stains from it melted,
+Blood of Pale-Face shed by Red Man,
+Slowly, while he watched and waited,
+_All the sparkling water vanished;_
+Dry became the magic fountain,
+Leaving bare the silver arrow.
+
+Was it thus the spell would weaken
+Which had wrought his love such evil?
+Would she be again awakened
+When he sought her in the thicket?
+Must he shoot this arrow at her
+To restore her throbbing pulses?
+Must he seek again We-nau-don
+To make warm her icy beauty?
+
+While he of himself sought guidance,
+Sought to know the hidden meaning
+Of the mysteries he witnessed;
+Lo! another mystic wonder
+Met his eyes as he sat musing.
+
+From the arrow made by Pale-Face,
+As th' enchanted water left it,
+Sprang a tiny shoot with leaflets
+Pushing upward to the sunlight.
+
+Did the arrow dry the fountain
+With the blight of death it carried?
+Or in going, had the water
+Left a charm upon the arrow?
+Did the heart-blood of the Pale-Face
+From the arrow in the water
+Cause the coming of the green shoot,
+Which reached upward to the sunlight?
+
+All O-kis-ko's love and courage
+Could not give him greater knowledge.
+Savage mind could not unravel
+All the meaning of this marvel.
+Fear forbade him touch the arrow
+Lest he should destroy the green shoot;
+So he left the tender leaflets
+Reaching upward to the sunlight,
+Sought again the lifeless maiden
+For whose love his soul had hungered;
+Knelt beside her in the forest,
+With the awe of death upon him,
+Which in heathen as in Christian
+Moves the human soul to worship.
+
+All his faith in savage magic
+Turned to frenzy at his failure;
+And the helplessness of mortals
+Pressed upon him like a burden;
+While a mighty longing seized him
+For a knowledge of the Unknown,
+For a light to pierce the Silence
+Into which none enter living.
+And unconsciously his spirit
+Rose in quest of Might Supernal,
+Which should rule both dead and living,
+Leaving naught to chance or magic;
+Which should seize the throbbing pulses
+Ebbing from a dying mortal,
+And create a higher being
+Free from thrall of earthly nature;
+Almost grasping in his yearning
+Knowledge of the God Eternal,
+In whose hand the earth lies helpless,
+In whose heart all souls find refuge.
+
+But no light came to O-kis-ko;
+Still the burden pressed upon him,
+And a pall of hopeless yearning
+Wrapped his soul in voiceless sorrow
+As he gazed upon the maiden
+With death's mysteries enfolded.
+Then he made upon her bosom
+The strange Cross-Sign she had taught him;
+From his shoulders took the mantle
+Made of skins of many sea-gulls,
+Gently wrapped the maiden in it,
+Heaped the tinted leaves about her;
+Leaving all his own life's brightness
+With her where the shadows darkened.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Thus the ancient legend runneth, with its plaint of hopeless doom,
+Bearing in its heart the fragrance of the Truth's enduring bloom,
+Standing in the light of knowledge, where developed ages meet,
+We can read the mystic omens which O-kis-ko's eyes did greet.
+And to us they seem the symbols of what coming ages brought,
+Realization gives the answer, which in vain the Savage sought.
+For we know the silver arrow, fatal to all sorcery,
+Was the gleaming light of Progress speeding from across the sea,
+Before which the Red Man vanished, shrinking from its silvery light
+As the magic waters yielded to the silver arrow's blight.
+And the tiny shoot with leaflets, by the sunlight warmed to life,
+Was the Vine of Civilization in the wilderness of strife;
+With no friendly hand to tend it, yet it grew midst slight and wrong,
+Taking root in other places,[AC]--growing green, and broad, and strong,
+Till its vigor knew no weakness, with its branches flower-fraught,
+Till a prosp'rous land it sheltered where th' oppressed a refuge sought,
+Till its fruit made all who labored 'neath its shade both bold and free,
+Till a people dwelt beneath it strong to meet their destiny.
+
+Now beneath its spreading branches dwells a nation brave and free,
+Raising glad, triumphant paeans for the boon of Liberty;
+Holding fast the Holy Cross-Sign,--Heirs of Duty and of Light,--
+Still they speed the arrow, Progress, on its civilizing flight;
+Keeping bright the Fires of Freedom, where Man, Brotherhood may know,
+For God's breath upon the altar keeps the sacred flame aglow.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[Footnote AC: Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.]
+
+
+
+
+APPENDIX
+
+
+NOTE _a_.--"We viewed the land about us, being where we first landed
+very sandy and low towards the water side, but so full of grapes as the
+very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them, of which we found
+such plenty, as well there as in all places else, both on the sand and
+on the green soil, on the hills as in the plains, as well on every
+little shrub, as also climbing towards the tops of high cedars, that I
+think in all the world the like abundance is not to be found."--_First
+voyage of Amadas and Barlowe, 1584. From Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _b_.--"The second of July we found shoal water, where we smelled
+so sweet and so strong a smell as if we had been in the midst of some
+delicate garden abounding with all kinds of odoriferous flowers, by
+which we were assured that the land could not be far distant."--_First
+voyage of Amadas and Barlowe, 1584._
+
+NOTE _c_.--"Deer, in some places there are great store: near unto the
+seacoast they are of the ordinary bigness of ours in England, and some
+less: but further up into the country where there is better feed, they
+are greater."--_Harriot's Report._
+
+NOTE _d_.--"The Governor (John White) with divers of his company,
+walked to the north end of the island, where Master Ralph Lane had his
+fort, with sundry necessary and decent dwelling houses, made by his men
+about it, the year before, where we hoped to find some signs, or
+certain knowledge of our fifteen men. When we came thither we found the
+fort razed down, but all the houses standing unhurt, saving that the
+neather rooms of them, and also of the fort, were overgrown with melons
+of divers sorts, and deer within them, feeding on those melons; so we
+returned to our company, without hope of ever seeing any of the fifteen
+alive."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _e_.--"At our first landing they seemed as though they would fight
+with us, but perceiving us begin to march with our shot towards them,
+they turned their backs and fled. Then Manteo, their countryman, called
+to them in their own language, whom, as soon as they heard, they
+returned, and threw away their bows and arrows, and some of them came
+unto us embracing and entertaining us friendly, desiring us not to
+gather or spoil any of their corn, for that they had but little. We
+answered them that neither their corn nor any other thing of theirs
+should be diminished by any of us, and that our coming was only to
+renew the old love, that was between us and them at the first, and to
+live with them as brethren and friends; which answer seemed to please
+them well, wherefore they requested us to walk up to their town, who
+there feasted us after their manner, and desired us earnestly _that
+there might be some token or badge given them of us_, whereby we might
+know them to be our friends," etc.
+
+"And also we understood by them of Croatoan, how that the fifteen
+Englishmen left at Roanoak the year before, by Sir Richard Grenville,
+were suddenly set upon by thirty of the men of Secota, Aquoscogoc, and
+Dasamonguepeuc, in manner following. They conveyed themselves secretly
+behind the trees, near the houses where our men carelessly lived, and
+having perceived that of those fifteen they could see but eleven only,
+two of those savages appeared to the eleven Englishmen, calling to them
+by friendly signs that but two of their chief men should come unarmed
+to speak with those two savages, who seemed also to be unarmed.
+Wherefore two of the chiefest of our Englishmen went gladly to them;
+but whilst one of those savages traitorously embraced one of our men,
+the other with his sword of wood, which he had secretly hidden under
+his mantle, struck him on the head and slew him, and presently the
+other eight and twenty savages shewed themselves; the other Englishman
+perceiving this, fled to his company, whom the savages pursued with
+their bows and arrows so fast that the Englishmen were forced to take
+the house, wherein all their victuals and weapons were; but the savages
+forthwith set the same on fire, by means whereof our men were forced to
+take up such weapons as came first to hand, and without order to run
+forth among the savages, with whom they skirmished above an hour. In
+this skirmish another of our men was shot into the mouth with an
+arrow, where he died; and also one of the savages was shot into the
+side by one of our men, with a wild fire arrow, whereof he died
+presently. The place where they fought was of great advantage to the
+savages, by means of the thick trees, behind which the savages through
+their nimbleness defended themselves, and so offended our men with
+their arrows, that our men, being some of them hurt, retired fighting
+to the water side where their boat lay, with which they fled towards
+Hatorask. By that time they had rowed but a quarter of a mile, they
+espied their four fellows coming from a creek thereby, where they had
+been to fetch oysters; these four they received into their boat,
+leaving Roanoak, and landed on a little island on the right hand of our
+entrance into the harbor of Hatorask, where they remained awhile, but
+afterwards departed, whither as yet we know not."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _f_.--"The thirteenth of August, our savage, Manteo, by the
+commandment of Sir Walter Raleigh, was christened in Roanoak, and
+called Lord thereof, and of Dasamonguepeuc, in reward of his faithful
+services."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _g_.--"The eighteenth, Eleanor, daughter to the Governor, and wife
+to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter, in
+Roanoak, and the same was christened there the Sunday following, and
+because this child was the first Christian born in Virginia, she was
+named Virginia."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _h_.--"The twenty-second of August, the whole company, both of the
+assistants and planters, came to the Governor, and with one voice
+requested him to return himself into England, for the better and sooner
+obtaining of supplies and other necessaries for them; but he refused
+it, and alleged many sufficient causes why he would not.... The next
+day, not only the assistants, but divers others, as well women as men,
+began to renew their requests to the Governor again, to take upon him
+to return into England for the supplies and dispatch of all such things
+as there were to be done.... The Governor being at the last, through
+their extreme entreating, constrained to return into England, having
+then but half a day's respite to prepare himself for the same, departed
+from Roanoak the seven and twentieth of August in the morning, and the
+same day about midnight came aboard the Fly-boat who already had
+weighed anchor, and rode without the bar, the admiral riding by them,
+who but the same morning was newly come thither again. The same day
+both the ships weighed anchor and set sail for England."--_Hakluyt._
+
+NOTE _k_.--"Our boats and all things filled again, we put off from
+Hatorask, being the number of nineteen persons in both boats; but
+before we could get to the place where our planters were left, it was
+so exceeding dark, that we overshot the place a quarter of a mile,
+where we espied towards the North end of the island the light of a
+great fire through the woods to the which we presently rowed: when we
+came right over against it we let fall our grapnel near the shore, and
+sounded with a trumpet a call, and afterwards many familiar English
+tunes of songs, and called to them friendly; but we had no answer, we
+therefore landed at daybreak, and coming to the fire we found the grass
+and sundry rotten trees burning about the place. From hence we went
+through the woods to that part of the island directly over against
+Dasamonguepeuc, and from thence we returned by the water side round
+about the north point of the island, until we came to the place where I
+left our colony in the year 1586. In all this way we saw in the sand
+the print of the savages' feet of two or three sorts trodden in the
+night; and as we entered up the sandy bank, upon a tree, in the very
+brow thereof, were curiously carved these fair Roman letters C. R. O.,
+which letters presently we knew to signify the place where I should
+find the planters seated, according to a secret token agreed upon
+between them and me at my last departure from them; which was, that in
+any way they should not fail to write or carve on the trees or posts of
+the doors the name of the place where they should be seated; for at my
+coming away they were prepared to remove from Roanoak fifty miles into
+the main. Therefore at my departure from them in An. 1587, I willed
+them that if they should happen to be distressed in any of those
+places, that then they should carve over the letters or name, a cross +
+in this form; but we found no such sign of distress.... And having well
+considered of this, we passed towards the place where they were left in
+sundry houses, but we found the houses taken down, and the place very
+strongly enclosed with a high palisade of great trees, with curtains
+and flankers, very fort-like, and one of the chief trees or posts at
+the right side of the entrance had the bark taken off, and five feet
+from the ground in fair capital letters was graven CROATOAN without any
+cross or sign of distress.... I greatly joyed that I had safely found a
+certain token of their safe being at Croatoan, which is the place where
+Manteo was born, and the savages of the island our friends."--_From
+Governor White's account of his voyage in search of the colonists,
+after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Hakluyt, Vol. III._
+
+NOTE _l_.--"We brought home also two of the savages, being lusty men,
+whose names were Wan-ches-e and Man-te-o."--_First voyage by Amadas and
+Barlowe._
+
+NOTE _m_.--All authorities agree in the statement that the favorite
+time among the Indians for an attack on an enemy was at, or about,
+daybreak.
+
+NOTE _n_.--"Into this river falls another great river called Cipo in
+which there is found great store of mussels in which there are
+pearls."--_Voyage of Amadas and Barlowe._
+
+"In her ears she had bracelets of pearls, hanging down to her middle,
+and these were of the bigness of good pease."--_Voyage of Amadas and
+Barlowe._
+
+"Sometimes feeding on mussels, we found some pearle, but it was our hap
+to meet with ragges, or of a pied colour; not having yet discovered
+those places where we heard of better and more plenty."--_Harriot's
+Report._
+
+NOTE _o_.--"The manner of making their boats in Virginia is very
+wonderful. For whereas they want instruments of iron or others like
+unto ours, yet they know how to make them as handsomely, to sail with
+where they list in their rivers, and to fish withal, as ours. First
+they choose some long and thick tree, according to the bigness of the
+boat which they would frame, and make a fire on the ground about the
+roots thereof, kindling the same by little and little with dry moss of
+trees, and chips of wood that the flame should not mount up too high,
+and burn too much of the length of the tree. When it is almost burnt
+through, and ready to fall they make a new fire which they suffer to
+burn until the tree falls of its own accord. Then burning off the top
+and boughs of the tree in such wise that the body of the same may
+retain his just length, they raise it upon poles laid over cross wise
+upon forked posts at such a reasonable height as they may handsomely
+work upon it. Then take they off the bark with certain shells; they
+reserve the innermost part of the bark for the nethermost part of the
+boat. On the other side they make a fire according to the length of the
+body of the tree saving at both the ends. That which they think is
+sufficiently burned, they quench and scrape away with shells, and
+making a new fire they burn it again and so they continue, sometimes
+burning and sometimes scraping until the boat have sufficient
+bottoms."--_Harriot's Report._
+
+NOTE _p_.--"They are a people clothed with loose mantles made of deer
+skin, and aprons of the same round about their middles."--_Harriot's
+Report._
+
+NOTE _s_.--"They have commonly conjurers or jugglers, which use strange
+gestures, and often contrary to nature in their enchantments: For they
+be very familiar with devils of whom they inquire what their enemies
+do, or other such things."--_Harriot's Report._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Transcriber's Notes
+
+
+Page xiii: Changed thay to that
+  (Tradition relates thay they transplanted this vine).
+
+Spelling variations:
+
+Page 55: Das-a-mon-que-peu
+Page 63: Das-a-mon-gue-pue
+Pages 83, 84, 86: Dasamonguepeuc
+
+Pages xii, xiv: Hariot
+Appendix Notes: Harriot
+
+
+
+
+
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