They always had the legends in NC about the Lumbees that were found later with blue eyes and knew English words. Lots of folklore around the colony.
For those familiar with the solutrian migration theory the Lumbee population might represent a population of people descended from original ice-age migrants who made it here from Europe around 50,000 years ago. Many early European explorers noted indigenous people along the east coast who had blue eyes and some with blond and red hair. The red hair and blue eyes also played a part in the god legends of the Aztecs.