Crossword-Solution: AMIDAS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Ribault does not seem to have set out with any definite scheme of colonization, but rather, like Amidas and Barlow, to have contented himself with preliminary exploration.

There, landing on an island called Wokokon--part of the broken outer coast--Barlow and Amidas took possession in the right of the queen and Sir Walter Raleigh.[8] Several weeks were spent in exploring Pamlico Sound, which they found dotted with many small islands, the largest of which, sixteen miles long, called by the Indians Roanoke Island, was fifty miles north of Wokokon.

And I think that could the truth be known, the Queen herself would freely name thee Lord of Roanoke." NOTES [1] The name is variously spelled Armadas, Amidas and Amadas.

Aware of the danger to be apprehended from the hostile disposition of their neighbours, they endeavoured to effect a reconciliation with the natives, one of whom, who had accompanied Amidas and Barlow to England, and who was distinguished by his unshaken attachment to the English, was christened, and styled Lord of _Dassa Monpeake_, an Indian nation in the neighbourhood.[7] [Footnote 7: Robertson.

When next year he sent out his first expedition to find some suitable spot for a colony on the North American coast, Raleigh took warning from the unfortunate experiences of Gilbert in the northern latitudes, and directed his two commanders, Philip Amidas and Arthur Barlow, to take another route.