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Examples
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“John White thought that the word Croatoan meant that his colonists had gone to another island, to stay with the Croatoan Indians there,” Katherine said.
Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010
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And then after they saw the word Croatoan, Governor White wanted to go on to Croatoan Island and look for the colonists there.
Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010
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“Why John White was alone instead of with other sailors, and why he didn’t see the word Croatoan and get driven away in a storm.”
Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010
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He’d probably missed the word Croatoan on the test.
Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010
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Nobody was at the Roanoke village, and we saw the word Croatoan with our own eyes, so we know that part of the story’s true.
Sabotaged Margaret Peterson Haddix 2010
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The word Croatoan was the name of a small island lying south of Cape Hatteras, where Indians lived who were known to be friendly.
Introductory American History Elbert Jay Benton
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It was understood that if they went to Croatoan they were to carve the word Croatoan on the bark of a tree in some conspicuous place, that the governor might know where to find them on his return.
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It is there made an island; Lane says that it was an island; and White also bears witness to this, for he says, when describing his discovery of the deserted and dismantled fort: "I greatly joyed that I had found a certain token of their safe being at Croatoan, which is the place where Manteo was born and the savages of the island our friends."
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*** But although it grieved me much to see such spoil of my goods, yet on the other side I greatly joyed that I had safely found a certain token of their being at Croatoan, which is the place where Manteo was born, and the savages of the island our friends.
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But although it grieved me much to see such spoil of my goods, yet on the other side I greatly joyed that I had safely found a certain token of their being at Croatoan, which is the place where Manteo was born, and the savages of the island our friends.
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