The Second Settlement at Roanoke- The Lost Colony
	The second settlement was begun in 1587, when Raliegh sent out three ships under John White, who re-establishes the Roanoke colony. White left the colony, reuturning to England to get supplies,a dn planning to retusn in a year. However, once in England, he and Raleigh ran into several problems getting another boat and supplies to the colony. These included problems on a national level with the Spanish as well as on a personal financial level. when White finally returned in 1590, he did not find the colonists. Instead, all that was found was the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree near the fort. The truth regarding what happened to these colonists still remains somewhat of a mystery. In his essay New Light on the Roanoke Colony Pearce includes an insert of White's narrative on the situation. It reads: "In all this way we saw in the sand the print of the Salvages feet of 2 or 3 short troaden the night, and as we entred up the sandy banke upon a tree, in the very bowe thereof were curiously carved these faire Romane letters CRO: which letters presently we know 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, which was, that in any wayes they should not faile to write or carve on the trees or posts of the dores the name of the palce where they should be seated; for at my coming away they were prepared to remove from Roanoke 50 miles to the maine.Therefore at my departure I willed them, that if they should happen to be distressed in any of those places they should carve over the letters or name, a crosse in (a special) form, but we found no such signe of distresse.