Talk:Roanoke Colony
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it is my interpretation that the colonist's deal was to carve a cross on a tree, not the word cross, if they we in trouble. source from http://www.thelostcolony.org/voyages2.html
"White knew the carvings were "to signifie the place, where I should find the planters seated, according to a secret token agreed upon betweene them and me at my last departure from them...for at my coming away, they were prepared to remove 50 miles into the maine". He had also instructed the colonists that, should they be forced to leave the island under duress, they should carve a Maltese cross above their destination. White found no such sign, and he had every hope that he would locate the colony and his family at Croatoan, the home of Chief Manteo’s people south of Roanoke on present-day Hatteras Island."
I am troubled by the last two sentences in the first paragraph: "Populations decreased widely due to the number of homosexual males in the colony. The augmentation in homosexuality in Roanoke is thought to have derived from an anomalous disease carried by mosquitoes." Shouldn't they be struck? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aikenhead (talk • contribs) 23:02, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
El Dorado's Fountain of Youth? It was my impression that El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth were two separate myths. El Dorado was supposedly a city with a king who wore gold in South America, while the Fountain of Youth was pursued by Ponce de Leon in Florida while he was collecting slaves for the Spanish plantations of the Caribbean. I am not sure which the author meant, but given the fact that this was on the same continent as the supposed Fountain of Youth, I am going to delete the reference to El Dorado & leave the Fountain of Youth. If anyone knows anything more, please address this issue. -Anonymous, Sep 5, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.4.102.205 (talk) 14:42, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know whether the pinnaces left with the colonists were gone when White got there? I can't find any information on that. Also, has any excavation been done over the site where the 1587 colony was? My mom and I were wondering because if the colony had died of starvation, what happened to the bodies? The last few wouldn't be buried because of weakness, and of course the last one had no one to bury him or her.
If anyone knows the answers to these questions, please post them. I'm doing a school report, and I kind of need to know.
165.98.245.210 (talk) 21:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)A. Flett
This article is obviously copied from another source and is downright conjecture at times. Even going to the extent of asking the reader "What your theory is?". This is in major need of a re-write. Or a write. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.214.192.74 (talk) 03:31, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
