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A Bully On the Ship
On the start of their voyage there was a man who acted as a bully by condemming the poor people in their sickness and cursing them daily with grievous execrations. "But it pleased God beforre they came half seas over, to smite this young man (bully) 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 a astonishment to all his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God. -
Main Beam is Cracked
They were ecountered many times with crosswinds and met with many fierce storms with which the ship was shroudly shaken, and her upper works made very leaky; and one of the main beams in the midships was bowed and cracked. "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 watertight, yet there would be no great danger, if they did not overpress her with sails. So they comitted themselves to God." -
Man Overboard
There was a storm where the winds were so firece and the seas so high, that the ship had to float without using any of the sails. During this, a young man named John Howland, was thrown overboard into the sea. "Annd in one of them (storm), 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 of the ship, thrown into sea; but it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard. -
Arriving in Cape Cod
After a long beating at sea, daybreak they fell with that land that is called Cape Cod. They decided to stand for the southward to find some place along the Hudson River for their habitation. "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." -
Everybody Gets Sick
In the cold winter months of January and February half of the company that shipped over had died. Out of 100 and odd persons, scarce 50 remained. Diseases such as scurvy which the long voyage had brought upon them. And in these times of most distress there were six or seven people who offered there assistiance to the sick. "And yet the Lord so upheld these persons as in this general calamity ther were not at all infected either with sickness or lameness." -
Squanto
He had been to England and could speak better Enlgish than Samoset. "...But Squanto continued with them and was their interpreter and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation. He directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and never left them until he died." -
First Thanksgiving
For three days, Massasoit and almost a hundred of his men joined the Pilgrims, feasting and playing games.
