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When Drake’s rival, Sir Walter Raleigh, and his crew returned from a similar raid, they were immediately denounced by the Spanish ambassador as ‘Pirates, pirates, pirates’.10
William Dalrymple • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Among the young men their friends and neighbours, the belle jeunesse of the Colony, there were many excellent fellows, several devoted swains, and some two or three who enjoyed the reputation of universal charmers and conquerors. But the home-bred arts and the somewhat boisterous gallantry of those honest young colonists were completely eclipsed by
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The Lost Colonists seem ordinary in a way that makes them more familiar than the incompetent gold-obsessed gentlemen of Jamestown and the sanctimonious Pilgrims who banned Christmas celebrations.
Andrew Lawler • The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
McAnnis remembers from his files that Otto and Ramsey were born just a few months apart. They must have grown up here together: summers, weekends, holidays. They have the shared ease of brothers or at least lifelong friends, but to McAnnis, they look like the two sides of a fateful coin flip.