Chapter Five Rebuilding
Chapter Five Rebuilding
Inspired by Governor White's passionate speech,
the colonists began to work that day to rebuild the Roanoke settlement.
The men took some axes into the forests to cut down trees.
Using chisels, hammers, and nails, they assembled the logs into a frame for the new fort.
Then they patched up the gaps between the logs with tree sap.
For a roof, the women pulled up tall grasses from a nearby field and wove them together into a tight mesh.
Several days
