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mt Explanation THE theme of the 1931 Pine Needles has been taken from the book of Mrs. Sallie Southall Cotton, entitled The White Doe, an Indian legend concerning the fate of Virginia Dare, the grand daughter of Governor John White, who was sent out in 1689 by Sir Walter Raleigh to found an English colony in America. This colony settled on Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina. Only a few facts are known about it, but historians have been able to obtain from old rec- ords, that seven days after the landing of the colony, Virginia Dare was born. A short time later Governor White returned to England for supplies, leaving instruc- tions that if the colony should for any reason be forced to move, their whereabouts was to be carved on a certain oak tree. As England was in war with Spain, Governor White was unable to leave with supplies for nearly three years and when he did return to Roanoke, all that was there of his colony to greet him was a ruined fort and the word Croatan carved on the oak tree. The disappearance of this colony has truly been called the tragedy of American colonization, and around it has hung a pathetic interest which ever leads to re- newed investigation in the hope of solving the mystery. Many legends have grown up about it. The fascinating Indian legend that Mrs. Cotton has put into her book has sur- vived for centuries and tells how this colony, befriended by Manteo, found among the Indians a refuge from the dangers of Roanoke Island. There Virginia Dare grew up and was called Winona. A young Indian brave, Okisko, fell in love with her, but Chico, the Indian magician, also loved her, and one day in a fit of jealousy, turned her into a white doe. For months Winona roamed the forests in the form of a white doe bearing a charmed life. For months Manteo and his warriors searched far and wide for her but without results. Finally the old women of the tribe heard tales of the white doe and, children of superstition as they were, they linked the disappearance of their white friend with the appearance of the white doe. Okisko heard their stories and he set out to find the doe and to restore her to human form by shooting her with a magic arrow. After a long search he found her and shot her. Just as he saw his beloved Winona returning again to human form, an unfriendly chieftain shot her with a silver arrow that had the power to counteract the charm of the magic arrow and she fell dead at the feet of Okisko. This legend has survived for three centuries and today woodsmen everywhere consider a white doe a sign of evil omen. It is of interest to know that Mrs. Cotton was North Carolina ' s outstanding woman of her generation. She died two years ago at the age of eighty-six.
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