. King's handbook of Boston harbor. Governor Winthrop. 234 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. head in the ship Six Friends, 44 guns, to take Quebec, the western citadelof the abomination of Rome. But, after much hard fighting, Phipps re-turned to Boston with the remnants of his discomfited fleet, and publiclysaid, The things which befell me on this expedition are too deep to bedived into. Numberless unfortunates were driven into this port during the early-days, and found the grim Puritans most sympathetic and helpful. In simplelanguage, the old records tell many a plaintive story: There are late
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. Governor Winthrop. 234 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. head in the ship Six Friends, 44 guns, to take Quebec, the western citadelof the abomination of Rome. But, after much hard fighting, Phipps re-turned to Boston with the remnants of his discomfited fleet, and publiclysaid, The things which befell me on this expedition are too deep to bedived into. Numberless unfortunates were driven into this port during the early-days, and found the grim Puritans most sympathetic and helpful. In simplelanguage, the old records tell many a plaintive story: There are latelyarrived fifteen French families, with a religious Protestant minister, who arein all — men, women, and children — more than fourscore souls, and are. The Police-Boat, Boston Harbor. such as fled from France for religions sake; and by their long passage atsea their doctor and twelve men are dead, and by other inconveniences theliving are reduced to great sickness and poverty, and therefore objects of atrue Christian charity. Also, fifty persons — men, women, and children —which were by the cruelty of the Spaniards driven off from Elutheria (anisland of the Bohemiahs), naked and in distress. Sometimes the compas-sion of the townsmen took a singular turn, as when a cargo of negroes,mostly women and children, torn from the coasts of Madagascar, werebrought into port more dead than alive. These, as it is recorded, weresold as slaves to magistrates, ministers, and people of distinction. Proba- KINGS flAADHOOK OF HOSIOA HARBOR. 235 bly their descendants, sable or part bleached, are now not without honor inAnderson Street. In 1711 Nantasket Roads saw a more splendid sight than it ever hadbefore, when the vast armada of Admiral Sir Hove
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