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+Title: The White Doe
+       The Fate of Virginia Dare
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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 piedčd,[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, piedčd 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 charmčd 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 pćans 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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