14 SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 



Twice he sent out expeditions to 

 America, but the ancestors of King 

 Philip and Massasoit would not allow 

 him to do it. The first settlers escaped 

 in their nightcaps and slippers, and 

 boarded Francis Drake's ships ; but the 

 second band were tomahawked and 

 scalped. The first expedition brought to 

 England tobacco, and the succulent and 

 necessary Murphy. Raleigh called a 

 State Virginia, after his Virgin Queen, 

 and the capital of North Carolina is 

 known to this day as Raleigh. 



In the splendid fight of English sea- 

 men against the Armada of Spain a 

 fleet Philip sent out to wipe England 

 off the map Raleigh was a leader. 

 Such men as Francis Drake, John Haw- 

 kins, and Frobisher were his companions 

 in that never-to-be-forgotten Homeric 

 sea conflict. Then Raleigh became the 

 owner of the magnificent acres of Sher- 

 borne, in Dorsetshire ; then the disgraced 

 husband of Elizabeth Throgmorton ; the 



