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Rather pardon the Spaniards for landing in the Thames than in Ireland!" till Lord Grey became much excited, and turning as a last hope to Raleigh, asked his opinion: but Raleigh's silver tongue was that day not on the side of indulgence.
Years afterward, when Virginia had been at length settled by Englishmen, a faint tradition found its way among them of a band of white captives, who, after being for years kept by the Indians in laborious slavery, were at length massacred. Such were the only tidings of Raleigh's colonists that ever reached the ears of their countrymen.
They became silent as four men, two from each ship, made ready for the standing broad jump. The jumping was superb. After eight attempts one man from each ship was eliminated; and at length the Indefatigable man won. "Two points for us, Raleigh," said Captain Reynolds, jotting down something on the back of an envelope. "Don't crow, we'll get you yet, Reynolds," was Captain Raleigh's reply.
Very early the next morning a note was brought to her before she was up, and on it was written: "We have touched bottom at a depth of fourteen and an eighth miles." When Roland came to Mrs. Raleigh's house, about nine o'clock that morning, his face was pale and his whole form trembled. "Margaret," he cried, "what are we going to do about it? It is wonderful; I cannot appreciate it.
In the Lord Timon of the Shakspere piece, which was rewritten from an Academic original after Raleigh's consignment to the Tower, in that fierce satire into which so much Elizabethan bitterness is condensed, under the difference of the reckless prodigality which is stereotyped in the fable, we get, in the earlier scenes, some glimpses of this 'Athenian' also, in this stage of his career.
It was for this reason that Raleigh's dealings with the Spaniards in South America were more circumscribed than those of many of his colleagues.
It was not Mr. Raleigh's custom to interfere; if people chose to drown themselves, he was not the man to gainsay them; but now, as his walk drew him toward her, it was the most natural thing in the world to pause and say, "Il serait fâcheux, Mademoiselle, lorsqu' on a failli faire naufrage, de se noyer" and, in want of a word, Mr.
It has justified utterly the policy which the good Lord Howard had adopted by Raleigh's and Drake's advice, of keeping up a running fight, instead of "clapping ships together without consideration," in which case, says Raleigh, "he had been lost, if he had not been better advised than a great many malignant fools were, who found fault with his demeanor."
This custom was noted by Raleigh's colonists on Roanoke Island more than three centuries ago. Among the Lengua Indians not only is a dead man's name never mentioned, but all the survivors change their names also.
"And I, my lord, being in that matter at least one of Captain Raleigh's kidney, will just go with him to see that he takes no harm by being bold enough to carry out an ugly business, and serving these rascals as their countrymen served Mr. Oxenham."
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