Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Illustrations xv
Maps xvi
Part 1 A Case of Missing Persons
1 The Disappearance 3
2 A Case of Missing Persons 19
3 John White: Governor 21
4 Of London 30
5 Of Population 40
6 Of Religion 43
7 The Colonists 48
8 In Certain Danger 57
Part 2 A Case of Murder
9 Sabotage 61
10 The Second Roanoke Expedition: Grenville and the Secotan (1585) 80
11 The Second Roanoke Expedition: Lane's Command (1585-1586) 97
12 Chaunis Temoatan and a Murder (1586) 110
Part 3 A Case of Conspiracy
13 The Lost Colonists (1587) 127
14 Raleigh's Rise to Power 135
15 Political Turmoil 145
16 The Players 162
17 The Motive 180
18 The Game 185
19 The Fall 192
Part 4 Who are the Mandoag?
20 Raleigh's Search 207
21 Jamestown 212
22 War on the Powhatan 218
23 Requiem 223
24 Deep in the Interior 227
25 Who Are the Mandoag? 238
26 Epilogue 261
Appendix A Wingina and the Secotan 265
Appendix B The Meaning of Mandoag and Nottoway 271
Notes and References 273
Bibliography 333
Index 353