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Savagery In Sir Walter Raleigh's New World

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Is it true? Has Master Thomas Hariot captured a young Indian woman by the name of Nadie? From Sir Walter Raleigh 's New World comes a being so strange, so savage is she even human? They say she speaks English, but is unlike any Godly woman of England. Her skin and eyes are as dark oak wood, her body bared to all covered only in the slightest of deer skin. As the last of Sir Francis Drake’s Fleet of ships to return from Virginia it holds a treasure not valued in pounds. She comes from a world that is unlike our own. Where animals walk the grounds freely and the native tongue is wild. They grow vegetables that are strange and savage like the people who live there. Their world is full of a substance they call corn and the most precious of metals,

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