The reading passage states that the group of English settlers which, as it was thought before, was sent to Roanoke and did not disappear. It explains that the group relocated to the Island of Croatoa and provides three reasons to support its statement. However, the professor supposes that this theory is still not proved and finds the author’s arguments weak and easily dismisses them. First of all, the article argues that the Governor of the settlement found the word “Croatoa” that was carved onto a piece of wood. It suggests this finding as a sign which the settlers left to indicate that they had problems and went to that island. On the contrary, the speaker supposes that this suggestion does not have sence by saying that the Governor left