Perhaps the adventurers anticipated the further disappointments resulting from the additional exploration of the James, and so thought again of the roanoke River, which Captain Ralph Lane had partly explored in 1585 and 1586 with the hope that it might lead to China.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
Indeed, it may not be too much to suggest that the chief difference between the stories of roanoke Island and of Jamestown was the difference that London made.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
They had listened to the strange story of the lost colony on roanoke Island, English men and women killed doubtless by the Indians, though no sure word of their fate was ever to be known, but fear of a like destiny had not deterred them from coming.
"The Princess Pocahontas"
Virginia Watson