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The Bully on the Mayflower
On the voyage to the "New World" they faced many weather problems. But there was a man on the ship that terrorized the men on the ship, eventually he fell ill and died. afer his death, the men on the ship tossed him overboard and kept going along.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mayflower+ship+on+sea+through+storm&safe=active&espv=2&biw=1366& "Thus his curses light above his own head, and it was an astonishment to his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him" (Bradford 29). -
The Mayflower's Screw
As the Puritans kept going along on their voyage to North America, the storm started to tear the ship apart. The main support beam was collapsing. But someone found a metal screw that was the right part they needed to reinforce the beam.
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Man Overboard
One day, the storms that The Mayflower threw a man who's name was John Howland. Luckily, the other men saw that he was overboard and God allowed the men to toss the rope out if the ship and reach him.
"A lusty young man called John Howland, coming upon some occasion above the gratings was, with a seele of the ship, thrown into sea; But it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard and hung out at length" (Bradford 30).
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The Decrease of The Puritans
But what was most sad and lamentable was, that in two or three months' time half of their company died, especially in January and February.
"And yet The Lord so upheld these persons as in this general calamity they were not all infected with sickness or lameness." (Bradford 32). -
The Sickness begins to Take Its Tole
"But when he grew weak, they had compassion on him and helped him; then he confessed he did not deserve it at their hands, he had abused them in word and deed" (Bradford 32).
