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The lost colony of Roanoke: History’s Greatest Mysteries

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The English's Relationships With the Native American Population

In 1584, two individuals called Mantio and Wanchis are taken by the settlers and brought back to England. And Thomas Harriet lives with them, tries to learn their language. He actually creates an Algonquian dictionary. So I guess we have this impression of the English of trying to learn more about the people and the land and the culture and language that they've encountered in the new world. Do we know?

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