again and again. The tiny shoot that he had seen grew swiftly till 

 it formed a leafy bower where the spring had been. 



O-kis-ko, sitting often beneath its shade, noticed that clusters 

 of rich purple grapes hung from the branches and yielded red juice 

 instead of the white wine to which he had been accustomed. Tradition 

 says that this was the origin of the purple Scuppernong grape, a vine 

 that was abundant in the vicinity, but had formerly borne only white 

 fruit. Believing the red juice to be the lost maiden's blood, O-kis-ko 

 came frequently to drink it, praying that it would nourish him and 

 lead him to her hereafter. 



The legend of the white doe is found, at least in part, "wherever 

 in our land forests abound and deer abide." A white doe is considered 

 an evil omen, and it is believed that only a silver arrow is fatal to her. 



Though the members of Raleigh's settlement on Roanoke were 

 long known as the Lost Colony, on account of their complete dis- 

 appearance from the island, the title is a misnomer. There is little 

 doubt that they found a home among the friendly Indians of the 

 mainland, and that their descendants are living in North Carolina 

 today. 



Sir Francis Nelson, who visited the region about 1608, recorded 

 that he was told of people living inland "who wore clothes and lived 

 in houses built with stone walls, and one story above another, so 

 taught them by the Englishmen who escaped the slaughter of 

 Roanoke." Lawson, the first historian of the Carolinas, says he 

 learned from the Hatterask Indians that several of their ancestors 

 were white people and could "talk in a book." A tribe of Indians 

 living in Harnet and Robeson Counties, N. C., believe themselves to 

 be descended from Raleigh's colonists and the Cherokee Indians, who 

 lived together along the Neuse River. The Croatoans show evidences 

 of white blood, being good builders, and having to their credit some of 

 the best roads in the State, over one of which, the Lowrie Road, a 

 messenger carried the news of the Treaty of Ghent to General Jack- 

 son, in 1815. This tribe is also remarkable as speaking more correct 

 English than many of their white neighbors. 



In 1906, the younger of the two pines at Fort Raleigh was cut 

 down, as it had for some time showe/l signs of decay. Close to the 

 centre of its trunk an arrow-head was found inbedded, probably shot 

 there by an Indian when the tree was a sapling, nearly four centuries 

 ago. Its companion, known as the Eagle Pine, had a wide-spreading 

 top used by eagles for a nesting-place for uncounted years, until in 

 1876 a storm laid the great tree low. 



THE PINES OF CANASTOTA 



Canastota, N. Y., was originally an Indian village and derived 

 its name from an Indian word Kaniste, "cluster of pines" ; the suffix, 

 sota meaning "still silent, motionless." The three tall pines, from 

 which it took its name, grew on the bank of Canastota Creek, and 



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