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As an important asort to navigation through the Roanoke Colonies Illuminated website the editors decsorted to construct a directory of highlighted terms from the narrative texts. Readers will find in the Directory not only the basic highlighted terms but also the many variant spellings of that term (especially proper names of people and places) that appeared throughout the narratives. Since many of the highlighted terms begin with the given name of a person rather than his/her surname, it is useful to look both for given names (e.g., Walter) as well as surnames (e.g., Raleigh)

Readers will also find through the Directory a wealth of additional information about both the text entries and the images used to illustrate various terms. Thus one should highlight a variety of options once selecting a particular term for further study.

A

a blew sort

a broad sound

a certaine fishe like to a sea crabb

a certaine fruite in their hands

a fayre chaine

A hundred and fiftie miles into the maine

a knot vnder thier eares

a migthye riuer

a new Colonie

a riuer L

a rope of the same Pearle, but they were blacke

a Weroans wife

about their eares

Acores

Addesinocopeia

Admirall

Allum

an Island of twentie leagues long

and baskets

anker

Antiles

Applecrabs

aprons of the same round about their middles

Aquascogoc

armour

arriued vpon the coast

arrowe

artificial matts

as broad as the Thames betwixt Greenwich and the Isle of dogges

Ascopo

Ashe

axes

ayle hangcth [sic] downe behynde