CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. — Sir Walter Raleigh's Early Life . 1 II. — The Charter for Virginia granted BY Queen Elizabeth . . .41 III. — The Voyage of Captains Amadas and Barlow, 1584 . . . .49 IV. — The Inquisition, and Some Contempo- rary Events, 1584 . . .91 V. — The Voyage of Sir Richard Grenville, and the Founding of the Colony UNDER Captain Ralph Lane, 1585 . 101 VI. — Hariot's Account of the Landing of Grenville's Expedition, 1585 . 143 VII. — The Colonists left under Lane, 1585. 149 VIII. — Letter of Ralph Lane to Richard Hakluyt, 1585 . . . .159 IX. — Lane's Report to Raleigh, 1585 . 161 X. — The Conspiracy of Pe-mis-a-p an, 1586 . 185 XL — The Colony removed by Drake, 1586. 203 XII. — The Third Expedition Arrives just AFTER THE REMOVAL OF THE COLONY, 1586 225 xix