228 PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICA. 



1590. Grenville returned to Virginia, and found the 

 whole colony exterminated. 



1602. There was no European in all America. (Mr. 

 Macgregor must have meant no Englishman, as 

 there were thousands of Spaniards and others 

 from the Continent in Sbuth America.) 



1604. De Monts sailed from St. Malos, and established 

 a small colony in North America. 



1607. The London Company sent three vessels, accom 

 panied by Mr. Percy, who formed the first per 

 manent establishment on James River, with 104 

 persons. 



The Plymouth Company sent two ships to N. Vir 

 ginia, with one hundred planters ; forty-five only 

 remained. 



The settlement at James Town was settled in 

 April ; was greatly reduced by Sept. following, 

 owing to their bad conduct to the Indians ; but 

 were reinforced by 120 persons, principally gold 

 seekers and refiners, and ruined gentlemen. 



1609. Lord de la Warre was appointed Governor of the 

 colony, and was sent out with 500 emigrants in 

 nine ships. This colony turned cannibals, eat 

 ing themselves and Indians, whom they shot, 

 and were reduced to sixty, and finally the estab 

 lishment was given up. 



Same year one hundred planters, under Henry 

 and Raleigh Pophams, were sent out to Sagada- 

 hoc, at the mouth of the Kennebec. Most of 

 them died, and the colony was given up. 



This will sufficiently show that the Anglo-Saxons are 



