Arthur Barlowe

Arthur Barlowe was one of two British captains (the other was Philip Amadas) who, under the direction ofSir Walter Raleigh, left England in 1584 to find land in North America to claim for Queen Elizabeth I of England. His account survives in a letter written to Raleigh as a report on their journey. It is one of the earliest detailed English commercial reports written from direct observation about any place in North America[1] and has been called "one of the clearest contemporary pictures of the contact of Europeans with North American Indians."[2]