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were the Tuscaroras? What was the feeling of the Indians
toward the white people?
5. In what part of North Carolina were the Tuscaroras found? What
were their habits?
6. What tribes were found in the western portion of the State? What
were their habits?
7. What kind of people were the Indians? How did they cultivate the
soil?
8. Give further description of their habits.
9. Where was the home of the Meherrin Indians? The Nottoways?
What were the relations existing between these two tribes?
10. Describe the government of the Indians.
11. How did they live? What were some of their traits in war?
12. What relics of the Indians are still to be found in the State? What
tradition existed among the Indians? How was that tradition beginning
to be fulfilled ? Point out on the map the ancient homes of the
Tuscarora Indians. The Catawbas. The Cherokees. The Corees. The

Meherrins. The Chowanokes. Trace the course of the Roanoke River.
The Neuse. The Meherrin. The Chowan. The Catawba. The Yadkin.
The French Broad.

CHAPTER V
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH
A. D. 1570 TO 1583.
1570. The sixteenth century of the Christian era was one of the most
wonderful periods in the world's history. The recent invention of the
printing-press had scattered books and knowledge over Christendom, a
larger liberty in religions matters had been achieved by the
Reformation, and daring navigators sailed with their ships into many
regions never before visited by civilized men.
2. The Portuguese and Spaniards sent expeditions to many lands. In
America, thousands of men and women were living who had come
from Europe, or had been born of white parents since the first
settlements in the West Indies, Mexico and Peru. As Columbus had
discovered the new world with Spanish ships, the kings of Spain laid
claim to all the continent.
3. England, in that time, was ruled by Queen Elizabeth, who began her
reign in 1558. Ireland and the small islands in the British Channel were
the only dependencies of the Crown. Scotland was still an independent
monarchy. With a few millions of subjects, and this small territory as
her realm, this queen was in great danger of dethronement and death.
The Pope, the Catholic kings and her own people belonging to the
Church of Rome denied her title to be queen and sought her overthrow
and that of the Protestant religion she upheld.
4. Amid so many dangers and difficulties, Queen Elizabeth, by wisdom
and prudence, not only managed to defend herself, but became one of
the greatest rulers of any age. She devoted her energies to the
government of her people, and, though courted by many princes, would
never marry, for fear such a relation would impair her usefulness as a
queen.
5. Among her greatest gifts as a ruler was her clear insight into the
characters of men. She knew whom to employ as her agents, and was

rarely deceived as to how far she could trust them in a season so full of
treason and danger. But this great queen, who humbled the most
powerful monarchs, and in whose presence the sternest men would
sometimes tremble, was, after all, a very vain woman. Nothing pleased
her more, even in her old age, than praise of her personal appearance.
6. One evening she was walking at the head of a procession composed
of ladies and gentlemen of her court, when she encountered a muddy
place in her pathway. The stately queen paused a moment, seeming in
doubt as to whether she should step in the mud or pass around. A
handsome young man, who was standing near by, snatched a velvet
cloak from his shoulders, and, throwing it in the mud for Her Majesty
to step upon, she passed over with dry feet.
7. Queen Elizabeth was charmed with the ready gallantry of the youth.
She made inquiries concerning him, and found that it was young Walter
Raleigh, who had just come to London from his home in the country. It
was the beginning of his fortunes at court, and he soon won the queen's
confidence and respect.
8. Walter Raleigh had many noble and generous qualities. He was, by
nature, brave, ambitious and enterprising, and soon became a great and
learned man. He was a gallant soldier, a skilful navigator and the
statesman who first conceived the plan for extending the British Empire.
While serving as a soldier in behalf of the French Protestants, on the
continent of Europe, he heard and read so much of the wondrous lands
across the Atlantic Ocean that he resolved that England should share in
the glory and profit of future discoveries.
1578-83.
9. When Raleigh went back to England he communicated his desires
and feelings to his half-brother, Sir Humphrey