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inhabite there. 1587," John White heads the very long hst. As 

 all these were set upon by the Indians and lost sight of after 

 much search by various expeditions sent out for their rescue, 

 this John White is only interesting on account of his name. 



The fourth and fifth voyages, 1587- 1588, were under the com- 

 mand of John White, whom Raleigh appointed Governor of 

 Virginia, and who wrote reports of the voyages, containing noth- 

 ing, however, which gives us an insight into his past history. 



That he was five times in Virginia is stated by himself in a 

 letter dated " from my house at Newtowne in Kylmore (Ireland), 

 the 4 of February, 1593," to " My very friend Master Richard 

 Hakluyt," in which, on page 287, edition 1598, he speaks of 

 " his fift and last voiage to Virginia, in the year 1590." 



Williamson, in his History of North Carolina, note to p. 50, 

 vol. I, gives this interesting piece of information: " Governor 

 White, on his return to England, touched at a port in Ireland, 

 where he is believed to have left the potatoe that thrives so well 

 in high latitudes, though it cannot resist intense cold." 



Let us now see what writers of more modern date say con- 

 cerning John White. 



In Stith's History of Virginia, published in 1747, mention is 

 made of John With, " a skillful and ingenious painter," and 

 further on, " Mr. John White, who was governor of the colony." 



Camus, in his " Memoire sur la collection des grands et 

 petits voyages " (De Bry), Paris, 1802, p. 42, has the following 

 information: 



" La carte de la Virginie n'a pas ete redigee d'apres des obser- 

 vations astronomiques; elle a ete dessinee par Jean With, peintre 

 anglais, que la reine Elizabeth avoit envoye en Virginie pour 

 en lever la topographie." And again in note on page 43, " La 

 qualite de peintre que de Bry donne a Jean With me fait douter 

 que cet individu soit le meme qui fut envoye dans la Virginie 

 en 1588." 



Bancroft, in his " History of the United States," Vol. I, has 

 this criticism on several celebrities in the expedition of 1585: 

 " It sailed from Plymouth, accompanied by several men of merit, 

 whom the world remembers: — by Cavendish, who soon after cir- 

 cumnavigated the globe; Hariot,'the inventor of the system of 

 notation in modern algebra, the historian of the expedition; and 



