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Fig. 4 - John White’s 1585 Manuscript Map B
John White’s 1585 Manuscript Map B of Virginia is shown in Figure 4. The text and
arrows show where two of the inscriptions on the Zuniga Map would be located on John White’s
map, if the authors’ interpretation is correct. Their hypothesis states that the colonists, on
Raleigh’s instruction, traveled by water with the Croatan to the lower end of the Alligator River,
where they found sassafras near the village of Tramanskecooc 15 . 8 The red line shows the route
they would have most likely taken from Roanoke Island to their destination. The lowest legend
8 15 The John White Map of Eastern North America, as noted by Paul Hulton of the British Museum, indicates two
Indian village locations on the east side of the Alligator River named Tramanskecooc (which are not discernible
except on the original), one at the river’s edge and another somewhat inland (Paul Hulton, America 1585: The
Complete Drawings of John White, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), 1984: 85.