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A Bully On the Mayflower
There was a bully aboard making fun of all the sick passengers. Bradford exclaimed, "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." -
Ship Falls Apart
As the weather and waves start to get bad the ship can't handle the wind and falls apart. “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." -
Passenger Falls Overboard
As the waves got more rough, and the wind picked up, a passenger of the boat fell over. Bradford further explains, "“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." -
Arriving in Cape Cod
The pilgrims successfully arrived at their destination at Cape Cod and were extremely happy about it. William Bradford described their excitement by saying, "“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…” -
The Pilgrims Get Sick
As time goes on and one pilgrim is passing their sickness to another, there are barely any healthy people. The ones that are healthy are protected by god as Bradford shows in his text, “And yet the Lord so upheld these persons as in this general calamity they were not at all infected either with sickness or lameness."
