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Bully on the ship
Bradford described his time on the ship when the crew member harrassed the other passengers. These passengers were sick and really wanted help, god heard their cries. As a result the man that once harrassed them would now come down with the same illness and eventually die.
"Thus is curses light his own head and it was an astonishment to all his fellows for they noticed it to be a hand god upon him" -
Ship breaking down
The section of this story where the passangers face fierce winds and a threat that the ship is breaking apart as the sea. They committed themselfs to God and proceded to resolve in sundry.
"but it pleased god that he caught hold of the topsail halywards which hung overboard and ran out a length" -
Starving
Bradford says that half of the people that came over the to the new world had died. It was in the peek of winter, people even gt hit with diseases.
"And yet the Lord so upheld these persons as in this general calamity they were not at all infected with either sickness or lameness" -
Indian relations
He explains how Puritains gained a relationshop with the Native Americans. The first Natives were stealing there stufff but when they ran across the samoset they began to create a relationshp with the Natives.
"Being after some time of enterainment and gifts dismissed, a while after he came again, and five more with him, they brought again all the tools that were stolen away before" -
First Thanksgiving
Everyone there was strong and recovered. They had learned from the indians to get fish. The reason why they got fish was for food. They also showed them how to grow their crops.
"They now began to gather small harvest they hadto fit out their houses and dwellings against winter, being recovered and in all health and strength"
