34 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 69 
to keep out their enemies and the entrance into it made like a 
turne pike very artificially.” (Hakluyt, (1), III, p. 248.) 
The second expedition, which sailed from Plymouth April 9, 1585, 
reached the island of Wococon late in June. On July 3 they sent 
word of their arrival ‘‘to Wingina at Roanoak.” On July 12 they 
reached ‘‘the Towne of Pomeioke,’” and three days later, July 15, 
‘‘came to Secotan, and were well entertained there of the Savages,” 
on the 18th returning to Wococon. 
Among the members of this expedition was ‘Maister Jhon White 
an Englisch paynter who was sent into the contrye by the queenes 
Maiestye, onlye to draw the description of the place, lyuely to de- 
scribe the shapes of the Inhabitants their apparell, manners of 
Livinge, and fashions, att the speciall Charges of the worthy knighte, 
Sir Walter Ralegh.”” The original water color drawings made at 
that time by White are now preserved in the British Museum, and 
such as are used in the present work are reproduced from photographs — 
made by the writer. Fortunately, among the drawings made by 
White were general views of the towns of Secotan and Pomeioc. 
These, with others of the collection, were first engraved by De Bry 
and published in 1591 to accompany Hariot’s Narrative, appearing 
as the first part of De Bry’s great collection of voyages. 
The original drawing of Secotan, which is here reproduced as plate 5, 
differs in many details from the engraving which appeared as plate 20 
in De Bry. The text accompanying the illustration described the 
large building in the lower left corner as one ‘‘ wherein are the tombes 
of their kings and princes, as will appere by the 22.” The habitations 
are shown with the mat or bark coverings removed so as to reveal 
the interior, with raised platforms which served as sleeping places. 
Ceremonies are portrayed and food is shown in large vessels resting 
upon mats spread on the ground. In the upper right corner, in the 
midst of a field of ‘‘Their rype corne”’ is ‘‘a scaffolde wher on they 
sett a cottage like a rownde chaire . . . wherin they place one to 
watche, for there are suche nomber of fowles, and beasts, that unless 
they keepe the better watche, they would soone devoure all their 
corne. For which cause the watcheman maketh continual cryes 
and noyse.’’ Similar watch houses were erected in the fields by the 
Indians of New England, and may at times have been mistaken for 
small habitations. 
White’s drawing of Pomeioc was engraved and presented as 
plate 19 by De Bry. The original drawing, a photograph of which 
is shown in plate 6, b, bears this legend: ‘‘The towne of Pomeiock 
and true forme of their howses covered and enclosed some w™ 
matts and some w barcks of trees. All compassed abowt w® 
smale poles stock thick together in stedd of a wall.” The descrip- 
tion of the illustration in De Bry refers to the large closed structure 
