The moment Walter Raleigh convinces Queen Elizabeth I that he is more than just a pretty face, more than a "discoverer" of potatoes, tobacco and Croatans Manteo and Wanchese, is the moment he presents to her the "New World" through imagery:
At first it's no more than a haze on the horizon. So you watch, you watch, then it's a smudge, a shadow on the far water. For a day, for another day, the stain slowly spreads along the horizon taking form, until on the third day you let yourself believe, you dare to whisper the word: land.
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