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voyage on the mayweather
the trip to the new land was full of surprises. not to metion how brutal it was."“And yet the Lord so upheld these persons as in this general calamity they were not at all infected either with sickness or lameness”. -
Harassment
The man bullied other saliors and passangers but karma came around and he ended up catching the flu and dying “But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curses light on his own head, and it was an astonishment to all his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him” -
man overboard
John Howland, the man that was tossed overboard but was brought back ".And in one of them, as they thus lay at hull in a mighty storm, a lusty young man called John Howland, coming upon some occasion above the gratings was, with a seele [sudden lurch] of the ship, thrown into sea; but it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard and ran out at length” -
Ship starts to fall apart
The main beam crqcked and the voyagers worried if they would make it or not.“And as for the decks and upper works, they would caulk them as well as they could, and though with the working of the ship they would not long keep staunch [watertight], yet there would otherwise be no great danger, if they did not overpress her with sails. So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed” -
Finally Landed in Cape Cod
The sailors finally hit land fall but realize how hard it will be to start a civilazation.“Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element…”
