of the lower classes, they did not read. 



Evidence shows that the men, loyal to the Church of 

 England, attended religious watches in the morning and 

 evening. The captain led the daily prayers and hymns on 

 the Elizabeth. 



Unlike her 16th century double, the Elizabeth II will 

 travel in and out of ports all along the North Carolina 

 coast. 



"One of the challenges to me is that we're going to en- 

 counter some of the same natural forces that they did 400 

 years ago," says Horace Whitfield, the ship's captain and 

 manager of the state historic site. "I'm going to take that 

 ship everywhere in North Carolina that she's capable of go- 

 ing." 



It won't be as easy as it sounds, though, says Whitfield. 

 "We've got to pick our way through 400 years of trash." 



— Sarah Friday 



Photo by Henry Applewhite 



16th century replica will sail N.C. waters 



The Lost Colony 



Few answers to 400-year question 



For almost 400 years, explorers, 

 historians and archaeologists have 

 been trying to solve a puzzle. But, the 

 pieces don't fit. In fact, most of 

 them — 117 men, women and 

 children — are missing. 



What we know about Sir Walter 

 Raleigh's final expedition to North 

 American is limited. Most of the puz- 

 zle pieces come from the records of 

 John White, writer, artist and gover- 

 nor of the 1587 colony. 



White writes that the Croatan In- 

 dians, led by Manteo, helped the 

 colonists by sharing their knowledge of 

 the area and food. The English showed 

 their appreciation to Manteo on Aug. 

 13, 1587, by baptizing him and making 

 him a lord. This was the first Protes- 

 tant baptism and the first granting of 

 an English title in North America. 



But not all the natives were as 

 friendly. Hostilities flared with the 

 Roanoke Indians when they killed 

 colonist George Howe. White writes 

 that he and more than 20 men 

 retaliated by attacking the Indians' 

 village a few days later. But instead of 

 finding the Roanokes, they found the 

 Croatans gathering corn. The 

 Roanokes had fled after killing Howe. 



In August, White left the island for 

 supplies, but not before his grand- 

 daughter, Virginia Dare, the first 



English-American child, was born on 

 the 18th. Soon after, another child, 

 whose sex and first name remain un- 

 known, was born to Margery and 

 Dionas Harvey. 



White's accounts tell us little about 

 the lifestyle of the 1587 colonists. 

 Those puzzle pieces come from 

 historians and archaeologists. 



Historian Lokey Lytjen-Collins says 



the colonists intended to make 

 Roanoke Island more of a town in 

 1587, depending more on its own 

 agricultural endeavors. Raleigh even 

 gave them a coat of arms and a motto 

 saying, 'Through harmony, small 

 things grow.' 



Historians believe the colonists lived 

 in story-and-a-half or two-story dwell- 

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