The Pine-tree coast . north and south, are the two Hypocrites (formerly Hippocras), mere wave-washed ledges ;still farther east are the two White Islands, a good mark hi sailing from Monhegan to Booth-bay, as the Great White is high and bold. Next south, and due east from Damariscove,comes the Outer Heron ; then Pumpkin Island, where there are bad ledges. Southwest ofDamariscove are the dangerous Bantam Ledges, marked by a buoy. The Sparrow fished at Damariscove in 1622, when she brought out passengers forPlymouth Colony. Bradford says, despondingly, this boat [from the Sparrow] broughtseven p
The Pine-tree coast . north and south, are the two Hypocrites (formerly Hippocras), mere wave-washed ledges ;still farther east are the two White Islands, a good mark hi sailing from Monhegan to Booth-bay, as the Great White is high and bold. Next south, and due east from Damariscove,comes the Outer Heron ; then Pumpkin Island, where there are bad ledges. Southwest ofDamariscove are the dangerous Bantam Ledges, marked by a buoy. The Sparrow fished at Damariscove in 1622, when she brought out passengers forPlymouth Colony. Bradford says, despondingly, this boat [from the Sparrow] broughtseven passengers and some letters, but no vitails, nor any hope of any. Bj^ this means,however, a boat-load of provisions was afterward procured, and communication opJ^ned. In1624 the Pilgrims lost a pinnace here. At this time it was a regular resort for ,which fact first drew the Pilgrims attention to this quarter, of which they had previouslyknown nothing except from Sanu)set. CHAPTER XV. MONHEGAN ON THE DISCO\KK^ No fish stir in our lieaving net,And the sky is dark, and tlie night is \v(>t;And we must ply the lusty oar,For the tide is ebbing from the slun-e. — Baillie. jEjST miles off the pointed promontory of Pemaquid, inthe open ocean, two islands, the one only moderatelylarge, the other a mere lump of rock, — the nursling,as one might say, of the greater island, — emergeside by side from the bottom of the sea, like sleepingwhales that lie warming their huge backs in the can hardly get rid of the notion that the oceanwill swallow them up before our eyes. Land ten miles at sea ? That means a rock of dan-ger to the sailor, in thick weather, or happily it maybe the guiding mark for which two straining eyes havesearched through the long watches of a wintry or West, is there a sailor but knows Monhegan ^as well as he does the old church spire of his nativevillage, or a reader of history who has failed to recognize it as one of thestepping
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