In 1595 he made a voyage to Guiana, and in 1602 sent out Samuel Mace to Virginia--the third of Mace's voyages thither.

In 1603, just before his confinement in the Tower, he wrote to Sir Robert Cecil regarding the rights which he had in that country, and used these memorable words, "I shall yet live to see it an English nation."[24] [Footnote 1: Edwards, _Life of Raleigh_, I., 81, II., 10.] [Footnote 2: _Cal.

of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1674, p.

17.] [Footnote 3: Edwards, _Life of Raleigh_, I., 82.] [Footnote 4: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 184-208.] [Footnote 5: Stevens, _Thomas Hariot_, 43-48.] [Footnote 6: For the patent, see Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 297-301.] [Footnote 7: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 13.] [Footnote 8: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 301.] [Footnote 9: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 302-310.] [Footnote 10: Edwards, _Life of Raleigh_, I., 144-145.] [Footnote 11: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 322, IV., 10.] [Footnote 12: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 323, 340.] [Footnote 13: Edwards, _Life of Raleigh_, I., 106.] [Footnote 14: Stevens, _Thomas Hariot_, 55-62.] [Footnote 15: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 340-345.] [Footnote 16: Ibid., 346, 347.] [Footnote 17: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 19.] [Footnote 18: Edwards, _Life of Raleigh_, I., 111.] [Footnote 19: Brown, _Genesis of the United States_, I., 20.] [Footnote 20: Stebbins, _Life of Raleigh_, 47.] [Footnote 21: Hakluyt, _Voyages_, III., 350-357.] [Footnote 22: Strachey, _Travaile into Virginia_, 26, 85.] [Footnote 23: Edwards, _Life of Raleigh_, I., 706, 721.] [Footnote 24: Ibid., 91.] [Illustration: ROANOKE ISLAND, JAMESTOWN AND ST.

MARY'S 1584-1632].