sentences:  This overlooks the fact that Richard Grenville's privateering recovered the cost of the 1585 expedition.Additionally, sassafras prices did not skyrocket in value until the late 1590s, well after the establishment of the 1587 colony.In 2006, writer Scott Dawson proposed that a Southern live oak tree on Hatteras Island, which bears the faint inscription "CORA" in its bark, might be connected to the Lost Colony.