Roanoke

Paul Johnson's narrative on Roanoke was very interesting, and really gave me the most I know about Roanoke to date. Roanoke was one of the first colonies established in America and was left to live on its own for 2 years. John White left the colony and returned, finding nothing but carved words and some rotten boxes. I can not even imagine the chilling feeling of his return, with, how Johnson puts it, "When they landed the next day, White found no sign of his daughter or granddaughter, or anyone else." Man. And what I find even more surprising is Americans, after centuries of technological improvement in archeology, still can't come to a precise conclusion on what exactly happened at that place. What did the words Croatian mean? Will we ever figure out what happened? I think that if we really tried to trace the genealogy of native Americans, I feel that is the only way to determine if the most popular theory of the colony will be proven. America's greatest mystery? We may never know.