Sir Walter RaleighYou have lived like a star at which the world has gazed, said the judge at Sir Walter Raleigh's trial. He was fortune's tennis ball, said another contemporary, to many others he was an arrogant liar. |
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... Indians did not possess ) but a stray mule . The theory is that a group of the colonists intermingled with and perhaps married local people , for the whole of the Indian hinterland was far more thickly populated than originally realized ...
... Indians did not possess ) but a stray mule . The theory is that a group of the colonists intermingled with and perhaps married local people , for the whole of the Indian hinterland was far more thickly populated than originally realized ...
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... Indians . In 1570 a party of Jesuits was supposed to have been massacred there . Raleigh's patent had been due to expire in 1591 , so it was in his interest to keep alive the possibility that the colonists had survived . Even so it was ...
... Indians . In 1570 a party of Jesuits was supposed to have been massacred there . Raleigh's patent had been due to expire in 1591 , so it was in his interest to keep alive the possibility that the colonists had survived . Even so it was ...
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... Indians called it the brother of the Orinoco . * He said that after twenty days navigating they [ the Indians ] convey their canoes by porterage of one day from the river Dessekebe to a lake which the Jaos called Roponowini , and ...
... Indians called it the brother of the Orinoco . * He said that after twenty days navigating they [ the Indians ] convey their canoes by porterage of one day from the river Dessekebe to a lake which the Jaos called Roponowini , and ...
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