WEBVTT - S04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy Visions (Pt.2 of 3) 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:15.360 You're listening to Unexplained, Season four, episode thirteen, Lost in 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:26.760 Stormy Visions, Part two. Master Coffin didn't see the blow, 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.440 just the look of surprise on Chapman's face before his 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:34.680 body went limp and dropped to its knees. That look 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.240 of surprise still firmly fixed as the body keeled over 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:43.720 and planted itself face first into the long grass. Coffin 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.800 looked down in shock at the purplish ooze emerging from 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:52.920 out the back of Chapman's head. The Secotain had raised 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.960 his club again, but by then Coffin was already on 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:01.280 the move, charging headlong into the trees. The branches whipped 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.680 at him mercilessly as he sprinted for his life, while 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.720 following close behind, the thirty strong group of Secotans gave 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:13.280 chase back at Camp. Two, men on watch at the 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:17.000 front of the fort, having heard the distant screams, looked 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.840 up to see their leader burst suddenly into the clearing, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.960 followed soon after by the terrifying sight of thirty near 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:29.760 naked Secotans in full battle cry, running straight toward them. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.800 Having no time to prepare their muskets and cannons. The 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.640 English soldiers grabbed whatever they could to defend themselves as 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:43.120 a stream of flaming arrows whistled past their heads. The 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:47.800 Secotans had appeared not long after the fifteen men ordered 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.600 by Richard Grenville to keep hold of Roanoke at all 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:55.800 costs had arrived on the island. Having approached Master Coffin 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.760 and Chapman with smiles and cordial gestures, there seemed no 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:04.280 reason for immediate concern. Perhaps if they'd known a little 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.960 more about the circumstances of just why Ralph Lane and 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:12.040 the previous one hundred and seven colonists had left, or 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.320 about the terror they had wrought in their short stay, 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:21.160 they might have thought twice. Moments later, Chapman was dead. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.840 Another volley of arrows whistled through the settlement, sinking with 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.440 a flurry of thuds into various wooden structures as the 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:35.280 forest echoed with the screams of men. Then came another arrow, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.440 this time hitting its mark, entering one of Coffin's men 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.120 through the mouth and exiting out the back of his head. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.520 Down by the shoreline, four of the English were wading 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.560 through the shallows looking for oysters when one of them 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:56.800 spotted their bedraggled compatriots staggering out of the forest with 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.560 seconds despair. The men had bundled themselves to a nearby 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.440 rowing boat, and, having picked the other four up on 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:07.240 the way, headed out across the Pamlico Sound toward the 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:12.840 relative safety of the outer bank. Exhausted, bloodied and bruised, 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.799 the men, now only thirteen in total, collected their breath 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:22.120 and looked forlornly at the distant coastline of Roanoke Island 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:32.560 as they pondered their next move. It was late August 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.520 fifteen eighty six by the time Francis Drake's fleet arrived 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.880 back in England with tales of adventure and daring doo 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.680 in the Caribbean. So enwrapped were the upper classes by 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.960 his successful plundering of the Spanish colonies. Few barely registered 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.280 the one hundred and seven failed colonists who had returned 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:57.080 home with them. Though Sir Walter Raleigh had been disappointed 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.280 by the failed venture, it was some relief the few 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.600 had noticed. As for the Queen, she had far more 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.720 pressing things to worry about than the colonial failings of 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:13.440 her courtier. An assassination plot had been unearthed concocted by 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.080 supporters of her arch rival for the throne, Mary Queen 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:22.000 of Scots. By September, the leading perpetrators had been arrested 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:27.040 and thrown into the Tower of London Jail. On September twentieth, 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.920 they were placed on crudely built sledges and drawn by 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.479 horseback through the waist filled streets of London to a 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:39.559 field in Hoburn, in the center of the city. There, 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.000 as a vast crowd gathered to watch, the men were 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.360 dragged at the top of some scaffolding to await their hanging. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.839 One by one, the conspirators were forced to watch as 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:56.080 their cohorts were hung until barely alive, before being cut 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.919 from the gallows and placed on a large wooden block. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.960 Still conscious, The men were then stripped before having their 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:08.719 genitals sliced off as they screamed in agony and begged 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:13.480 for mercy. Their stomachs were sliced open and their innards removed, 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:20.760 and finally their hearts were cut out. The assassination plot 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.120 would prove particularly useful for Walter Raleigh. Not only had 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.680 it helped to bury the news of the Roanoke failure, 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.400 but within days Rawleigh found himself one of the main 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.240 beneficiaries of the executions when the Queen gifted him all 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.080 the estates formerly belonging to Antony Babington, one of the 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:45.080 lead conspirators. Having decided to pause his colonial ambitions for 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.680 the time being, Raleigh was now wealthier than he could 0:05:48.720 --> 0:06:00.280 ever have imagined. It was time for another plan. Having 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.720 been briefed by Ralph Lane and Thomas Harriot about their 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.040 time on Roanoke, it was clear to Raleigh that another 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.320 location should be found if a second colony was going 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:15.520 to be successful. As Harriot explained, there was one place 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.839 in particular that he and John White had come across 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:24.039 while conducting their cartography mission further up the coast. The 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.680 area known as Chesapeake Bay had seemed especially fertile, with 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.720 vast swathes of tall and thin trees perfect for construction. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:38.240 More importantly, he and White had succeeded in striking up 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.240 good relations with a number of local tribes unaffiliated with 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.320 those who now regarded them with animosity. When it was 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.600 also suggested there may well be silver to mine near by, 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:56.479 Raleigh was sold. There was only one small problem. Although 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.680 investors were not put off by the stories now being 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:04.560 by the returning colonists of the exotic, cannibalistic savages that 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.320 stalked the New World. It was proving much harder to 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.400 find new colonists willing to make the trip. One of 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:17.200 those who wasn't put off, however, was John White. Despite 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.800 all the difficulties they had faced on the last venture, 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.800 he'd thought of little other than how he might return 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.880 to the New World since he'd got back. After hearing 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.400 that Raleigh was looking to try it a second time, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.720 he jumped at the opportunity, having been far more interested 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.680 in learning from the Americans than Master Lane and his 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.600 soldiers had been. It's possible White had hoped that, under 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.120 his guidance, a second colony might find a way to 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:50.000 live peacefully with the local communities. It was also possible 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:54.120 that White's exposure to the majestic wilderness of America, in 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.840 contrast to the foul, stench and disease ridden London, had 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.840 made his return to the city or the more unbearable. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.160 In any case, what America offered that he wouldn't find 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.720 anywhere else was the chance to forge a life and 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.720 future for himself and his family, unimpeded by the English 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.400 social structures of his day. It was a life of 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.080 promise that he also succeeded in convincing his pregnant daughter 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.720 Eleanor and his son in law to buy into. And 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.760 then there was the small matter of one other issue, 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.600 the fifteen men that Richard Grenville had left stranded on Roanoke. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.360 When Grenville returned to London shortly after Francis Drake's fleet, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.120 Raleigh had been alarmed to discover that he'd placed another 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:46.480 fifteen men on the island. Though Raleigh had first wanted 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.600 to forget about them, Grenville eventually convinced him that, whether 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.600 he liked it or not, he was responsible for them. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.200 A compromise was made. The men would be picked up 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:09.040 by the new colonists on route to Chesapeake Bay. With 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.839 John White's help. Over the next few months, Raleigh succeeded 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.679 in convincing many others to sign up, and in January 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.800 fifteen eighty seven, as a reward for his efforts, White 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.240 was promoted to governor of the future colony. The town's 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:30.840 name would be Raleigh, and the surrounding territory known as Virginia, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.600 in honor of the Virgin Queen. It was to be 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.960 a very different venture to the first relying less on 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.719 military might and more on the expertise of its community. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.199 Having realized the importance of becoming self sufficient as quickly 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:50.400 as possible, Raleigh and White had focused heavily on recruiting 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.920 individuals with farming and hunting skills. Though most of the 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.200 colonists would be men, with many leaving families behind in 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.679 the hope of fighting them out later, this time there 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:07.880 would be women joining them too. Their presence would prove invaluable, 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:12.160 as Unlike their male counterparts, who tended to only specialize 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.720 in one discipline, the women possessed an array of vital 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.880 practical skills, from baking and brewing to churning butter and 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.959 rearing animals. Then knew far more about food processes when 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.840 seeds and herbs were ripe for picking and harvesting, and 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.920 often worked as accountants and bookkeepers for their husbands, while 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.920 also doing the majority of child rearing. More often than not, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:43.160 they also worked much longer hours. One thing that troubled Raleigh, however, 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.040 was the lack of nobility in the group. As a result, 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.160 Raleigh instructed the nation's chief Officer of Arms to make 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.400 up a family crest for all the men while also 0:10:54.480 --> 0:11:00.640 fabricating for them ancient links to the English aristocracy. Manteo, 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.840 who had returned with the first colonists, was ordered to 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.880 go back with John White's group as their lead interpreter. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.000 In return, he was to be made the Lord of 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:17.080 Roanoke Island. By late spring, White had secured a small 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.040 fleet of ships headed by the one hundred and twenty 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:24.040 ton vessel the Lion, to deliver them to Chesapeake Bay, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:35.480 and the moment was finally upon them. On May eighth, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:39.839 fifteen eighty seven, Governor John White and his one hundred 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:44.240 and sixteen colonists set sail from Portsmouth in England, and 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:49.960 their troubles began almost immediately. It was barely a week 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.200 into the voyage when John White stepped on deck of 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.120 the Lion to find that the companionship, known as a flyboat, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.080 carrying a number of colonists as well as most to 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:05.160 their provisions for their venture, was missing. When he asked 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:12.800 the ship's captain, Simon Fernandez, about it, he seemed strangely unconcerned. Fernandez, 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.120 who had been one of the original pilots on the 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.160 first colonial mission, had been one of the few men 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.840 available to take the second group across. Though trusted by Raleigh, 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.720 it seemed very quickly to White that something about him 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:31.120 was off. His response to losing the fly boat was 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:35.440 especially odd since Edward Spicer, who was piloting it, had 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.959 never been to where they were heading and was relying 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:42.240 on Fernandez to lead him there. When the Lion made 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.680 it to the Caribbean some months later, White suggested to 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.800 Fernandez that they stopped to get fresh water and give 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.959 the travelers some respite from the ship. Despite being well 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:57.320 acquainted with the area, however, Fernandez seemed suddenly unable to 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.959 suggest a convenient place to land. After dropping the colonists 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.040 at one island, their efforts to find food and water 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.480 resulted in half the ship being poisoned by the local 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:13.880 fruit and the stagnant water they drank. Later, when Fernandez 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.679 promised they would find animals to eat on another island, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:23.160 they found nothing of the sort. By mid July, the 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.600 Lion had made it as far as the Outer Bank, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.840 and on July twenty second dropped Anchor off the shores 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:34.920 of Hatterasc behind which lay the Pamlico Sound, and at 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:40.280 the top of that Roanoke Island. White called Manteo over 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.079 to join him on the port side, and together they 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.120 peered out for any sign of life coming from Roanoke, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:52.360 but saw nothing. Undaunted, White ordered forty men to join 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.079 him in the ship's boat, which was then untethered from 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.240 the Lion, in preparation for heading out to the island. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.240 But just as the vessel was about to pull away, 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.360 one of Fernandez's crew called out from over the side 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:11.079 with a message from Fernandez. None of the colonists were 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.800 to be allowed back on the ship, but were to 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:18.000 be deposited at Roanoke Island and left there for good. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.680 Murmurs of confusion echoed about the boat as White struggled 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:28.880 to comprehend what exactly was going on, demanding to speak 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.200 with Fernandez. The captain soon appeared at the front of 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.000 the vessel, repeating what his crew member had just said. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.360 Fernandez explained that it was getting too late in the 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.600 season for them to make it to Chesapeake Bay and 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.560 be back in the Caribbean before the storms picked up. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:51.680 White realized immediately there was nothing he could do. The 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.000 ship's men were all loyal to Fernandez and not one 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.840 of the colonists. At the first idea about how to 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:02.280 command a sailing ship. White looked around at the imploring 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.920 faces of his fellow colonists, then out toward the shores 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:10.400 of Roanoke. At least, he thought to himself, there'll be 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.320 a fot and fifteen soldiers waiting for them when they 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:17.200 got there. 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It was almost dark by the time 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.760 White and the others arrived at the eastern shore of 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.720 the island, pulling the boat onto the beach, They agreed 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.560 to bed down for the night, deciding to make their 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.120 way to the fort at first light the next day. 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.320 While some help to set up a makeshift camp, White 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.440 and the others called out into the trees, hoping for 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.480 any response from Master Coffin and his men, but all 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.919 was silent save for the crickets and the sloshing of 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:15.320 the waves behind them. Then came a sudden cry. White 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.400 rushed over to find one of the colonists pointing into 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.439 the undergrowth at the hideous skeleton covered in rags poking 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:26.320 out from underneath it. It was all that was left 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:31.280 of one of Coffin's men. The following morning, at sunrise, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.160 White and Manteo led the forty settlers to the north 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.680 end of the island. A short time later, the colonists 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:45.520 arrived at the fort. Though White recognized it instantly, much 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:50.119 of it, including the central fortification, had been completely destroyed. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.439 White had promised them a working village, but this was 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.920 nothing but ruins, taken over by thick vines and wild deer. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.080 As for Master Coffin's men, there was no sign of 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:09.240 them anywhere for the next few days. The colonists set 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.679 about unloading what supplies they had from the Lion, and 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:17.960 spent the rest of their time repairing the settlement. Early 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:22.320 on July twenty fifth, incredibly, the expedition's fly ship was 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:26.400 spotted approaching the outer bank. They had made it after all, 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.119 and by the end of the day all one hundred 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:34.080 and fifteen colonists had been delivered to Roanoke to begin 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:41.679 their new lives. It was a few days after the 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:46.000 flyboat's arrival that an alarm was raised one of the 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:51.360 landing party was missing. George Howe, one of the more 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.200 senior members of the group, had been elected as one 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.960 of the twelve assistants to help John White in running 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:01.160 the colony. That morning, he'd to the beach to search 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:05.959 for oysters, but had failed to return They found him 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.200 a few hours later, face down in the sand as 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.480 his lifeless body was tugged gently back and forth by 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:17.560 the waves. His body drained of blood, was covered in 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:22.080 tiny slash wounds. He'd been shot by arrows and had 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:27.480 his head split open. Most had been so consumed by 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.600 the relentless work of the past few days they had 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.560 all but forgotten about the Americans. Now it was all 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.800 they could think about. For White, it was a disturbing 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.640 reminder that it was going to require much more than 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:47.359 careful harvesting for the colony to survive. But first he 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.760 needed to know what had become of the fifty men 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:55.480 left by Richard Grenville. The next day, White took Manteo, 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.679 along with a small team of settlers to the island 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:03.159 of Crowetoen to speak with Manteo's tribe, hoping that they 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:09.119 might know something. On their arrival, some crowhetoents threatened to 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.240 attack White's group, until Manteo quickly stepped in to mediate 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:17.760 between the two. Later, having been invited back to their 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.680 local village, Manteo explained to White that his people had 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:24.320 been worried that the English had come for their food, 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:29.479 just as they had done before. White reassured them, however, 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:34.879 that they were only seeking friendship and nothing else. A 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.199 moment later, a member of the tribe was brought forth 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.760 from out of the nearby hut. The man had been 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:44.840 so brutally wounded that he had been unable to walk 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.239 for over a year. As the elders explained, he'd been 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.760 injured by English soldiers from the last settlement, who had 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.720 mistaken him for one of Winjinna's tribe, the Secotan leader 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:01.520 they had executed the previous year. Though, as the elders 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:05.679 graciously explained they bore no grudge with White, those that 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.960 had survived Lane's attack on winjohn As village would not 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.840 be so forgiving. In fact, it was winjohn As people 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:17.879 that had killed George Howe, as White also later discovered 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.320 it was Scotens who had ambushed Master Coffin and his 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:25.720 men a few months previously and likely killed them all. 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:30.720 After spending the night in the company of the crow Atoens, 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:34.840 the following day, White asked the elders to help organize 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.760 a conference with the rest of the local tribes so 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:40.840 that they might find a way to exist peacefully together. 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.880 The crow Atoens Julia agreed and offered to bring everyone 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.720 to Roanoke Island at some point within the next seven days. 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.640 Back at the fort, the colonists were becoming increasing the anxious, 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.440 with few venturing beyond the boundary walls since the death 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:09.200 of George Howe. Spirits were raised, however, when White returned 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:12.520 bearing news of the imminent conference with the local tribes. 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:16.680 But as one day passed after another with no sign 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.480 of the crow Atones or any of the other tribes, 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:24.560 the colonists had grown nervous once more. On the morning 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:27.440 of the eighth day, as he watched his heavily pregnant 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:31.719 daughter helping to collect firewood, White knew he had to 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:36.200 make a decision. Though others may try to attack them, 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:39.159 it was clear that win Joanna's people were the biggest threat. 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.399 Having learnt from the Croatoans that the survivors of Ralph 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:47.600 Lane's attack were now living in a village not far 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:54.119 from Roanoke Island, White went for it. At midnight, White, 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:57.520 along with Manteo and twenty four of the colonists' best 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:02.639 fighting men, made the short journey to the mainland. Having 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:06.200 crept off the beach, they continued silently into the trees, 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:10.080 following the sound of voices and the crackling of fire 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:15.920 until they arrived at the Secotan settlement. Quietly, they made 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:18.439 their way to the far side of the village and 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:24.320 waited for White's instruction. Now he cried, at which the 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:29.919 English opened fire and charged into the settlement. Utter chaos 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:33.480 ensued as the silhouetted bodies of the villagers ran for 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:36.960 their lives down to the coast, darting into nearby reeds. 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:42.679 The English gave chase, shooting indiscriminately at anything that moved, 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:47.680 when from out of the dark, Manteo screamed for them 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:52.840 to stop. Rushing back to the village, White found Manteo 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:56.600 cradling a dying man in his arms, with an expression 0:23:56.640 --> 0:24:01.640 of immeasurable anguish on his face. These are not Secotans, 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:07.760 he cried, These are Crowetoans, my people. You've killed the 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:18.399 wrong people. As it transpired, the Secotans had left their 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:23.040 village immediately after killing George Howe, fearing an instant reprisal 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:26.679 from the English. The crow Atoens had moved in to 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:31.120 collect all the food they had left behind. The following day, 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:33.520 White did his best to make it up to them 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:36.840 by helping them to collect what was left, but it 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:41.119 was little consolation for the enormity of his error. On 0:24:41.240 --> 0:24:45.200 August thirteenth, a ceremony was held on a Manteo for 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.360 his loyalty to the English, and as promised to him 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:52.840 by Serrali, he was granted the title Lord Manteo of 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:59.560 Roanoke Island. Five days later, Eleanor Dare, John White's daughter 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:04.520 went into labor. As the colony's physician got to work, 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:08.000 the women of the village gathered round to help, taking 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:11.200 it in turns to hold Eleanor's hand and urging her 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:16.960 to breathe deeply, until finally the baby arrived, a girl 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:21.320 to be named Virginia in honor of the Queen, the 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:24.240 first English child to be borne in the New World. 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:30.480 With Virginia's birth came a renewed optimism and in White 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:34.560 a renewed sense of responsibility, for not only were these 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:38.600 people's lives in his hands, but their futures too, and 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:44.320 the future of all their subsequent generations. Meanwhile, on the 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:47.800 outer Bank, despite having told White that they were in 0:25:47.800 --> 0:25:51.000 a hurry to make it back to the Caribbean, Simon 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:55.600 Fernandez and the Lion remained anchored just off the coast. 0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:00.159 Though its presence had irked Governor White, many had been 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:03.399 reassured by it, being as it was a symbol of 0:26:03.440 --> 0:26:06.800 their former homes and an escape route back if they 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:12.639 so wished. In late August, however, a tremendous storm ripped 0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:16.480 through the island, blowing the Lion far back into the Atlantic. 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:21.600 Although it returned six days later, its sudden and unexpected 0:26:21.600 --> 0:26:25.800 disappearance had left a profound mark on the colonists, being 0:26:25.800 --> 0:26:30.840 suddenly confronted by the enormity of their mission. Once Fernandez 0:26:30.880 --> 0:26:33.679 and the Lion were gone for good, there would be 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:37.240 no way to reach home or send word should anything 0:26:37.320 --> 0:26:43.000 cataclysmic occur, and in that moment, the settlers realized they 0:26:43.040 --> 0:26:47.320 were not ready. Not only had they arrived too late 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:50.879 to plant seriously before the winter, Since they had not 0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:54.840 made it to Chesapeake Bay, any future supply ships would 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:58.080 have no idea they had been deposited on Roanoke Island. 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:02.560 Somebody would have to return to England to inform Raleigh 0:27:02.560 --> 0:27:06.040 of the situation and make a request for more supplies. 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:10.600 Given his prior relationship with the man, it was soon 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:15.679 decided that that somebody should be John White. White was 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:19.560 aghast surely as governor, his place was with his people, 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:25.000 but the people, alarmed by White's recent blunders, had made 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:30.480 up their minds. Stunned by the decision, and no doubt 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:35.240 devastated to leave. His daughter had newly born granddaughter behind, White, 0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:38.439 Julie informed Fernandez that he would be traveling back to 0:27:38.480 --> 0:27:42.399 England with the fleet. Much to his relief, it was 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:44.960 agreed that he could travel with Edward Spicer on the 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:49.440 flyboat and not with Fernandez, who by then was refusing 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:54.560 to even speak to the governor. Having said his goodbyes, 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:58.080 it suddenly occurred to White that should anything happen to 0:27:58.119 --> 0:28:01.080 the colony and they be forced to move, there'd be 0:28:01.160 --> 0:28:05.120 no way to tell anyone about it. Then he had 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:09.200 an idea. Should they have to move on, they would 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:11.720 carve the name of where they were going on nearby 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:15.760 trees and the doorposts of their homes. If it were 0:28:15.760 --> 0:28:19.600 by their own volition, just the name would suffice, but 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:22.000 if they were forced to flee, they should carve a 0:28:22.119 --> 0:28:27.000 Maltese cross above the inscription. After making them promise to 0:28:27.040 --> 0:28:30.840 protect his possessions while he was gone, White kissed his 0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:35.000 daughter and granddaughter goodbye and made his way into the rowboat. 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:38.840 It wouldn't be so bad, he told them, and with 0:28:38.920 --> 0:28:43.080 any luck, he'd be back before winter. He couldn't have 0:28:43.160 --> 0:28:50.800 been any more mistaken. You've been listening to Unexplained, Season four, 0:28:51.000 --> 0:28:56.680 Episode thirteen, Lost in Stormy Visions, Part two, The third 0:28:56.720 --> 0:29:00.640