History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . e severest blow of could they trade, or in deep-sea fishing win their foodand pay their debts, without this smaller craft of lighterdraught? Neither could the Pilgrims, when grounding anchorat Provincetown and a month later anchoring in Plymouthharbor, foresee what we behold, that, in the Tercentenarycelebrations both Southampton and Provincetown were ina measure forced to pose as lost towns. These were trying days to the Pilgrim, in that longdrawn out, tempest-flecked voyage. The cat grew
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . e severest blow of could they trade, or in deep-sea fishing win their foodand pay their debts, without this smaller craft of lighterdraught? Neither could the Pilgrims, when grounding anchorat Provincetown and a month later anchoring in Plymouthharbor, foresee what we behold, that, in the Tercentenarycelebrations both Southampton and Provincetown were ina measure forced to pose as lost towns. These were trying days to the Pilgrim, in that longdrawn out, tempest-flecked voyage. The cat grew snarlyand thin. A lilac bush, slyly slipped aboard in a shawl,shriveled in the gale. A certain Mother-in-Israel, whoinsisted on providing for a coop-full of downy chicks foundthat within two months time her pets had developed intoscrawny awkward chickens. On pleasant days, each littlefamily group took turns in building fires on boxes of sandthat stood about the deck, on which to prepare food, andto warm over cold victuals, for this was the usual method THE PILGRIMS JOURNEY TO JIRGINIA 293 15. 294 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS employed in cooking aboard ship in those days, though somevessels were provided with low, brick-paved and lined fire-places, as the replica, in 1909, of Henry Hudsons ship of1609 proved. The equinoctial had given them lusty greeting in mid-Atlantic, the vessel scudding under bare poles and a beamfinally buckling amidships. Again it seemed to these devoutpeople that the Lords power thus vividly put forth hadbeen especially manifested to hold them firmly in their desig-nated path, for They committed themselves to ye will ofGod and resolved to proceede, proving that the questionof turning back was at least discussed and may have beenadvised by the fainter hearted. In mid-ocean, came that sea-born Oceanus, son ofStephen and Elizabeth Hopkins. Oceanus never proved ahelpful Pilgrim, dying in infancy. The first death on theocean was that of William Button,
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