Excerpt from Great Builders and Explorers of the Empire: Travels and Adventures Through Unknown Lands and Among Strange Peoples Such an active life as his is hard to follow in the short space we have here, as every day was full of deeds; SO we will hurry on to say that among the fruits of his attempt to found a colony was the introduction of the potato into the British Isles. One of his servants brought a few specimens home, and Raleigh had them planted on his Irish estates. We all know what the result has been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.