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I don't understand, the book has been on Gutenberg since early December.
Did you read the Llewellen chapter. That was probably about the last in a long list of failed English colonies that started with Roanoke.
Colonization of North America by Europeans was not easy. Here is a list of other failed colonies: [www.yahoo.com]

"The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil"

-- Sheikh Zaki Yamani