Murder of White's assistant, c1580s (c1880).

Murder of White's assistant, c1580s (c1880). A European settler shot with arows by Native Americans. John White (c1540-c1593) was one of the early English colonists in North America. He was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh as artist and illustrator on Sir Richard Grenville's expedition of 1585 and 1586. He was later appointed governor of the ill-fated Roanoke colony. After returning to England he came back to America to find the colony abandoned. in A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume I, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)