. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. ok his chest withhim, and a musket with powder and shot, and some meal and fish,with an iron pot, and got into the boat. Then the sailors cut therope that held the boat, and it floated away. Nothing was ever seen or heard of it again. It is dreadful tothink what sufferings the poor men in it must have endured, beforethey perished of starvation, though it is possible that they may havelanded on the coast somewhere. It is most likely, however, thatthe rough sea engulfed the little craft. The next year a vessel wassent out to search
. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. ok his chest withhim, and a musket with powder and shot, and some meal and fish,with an iron pot, and got into the boat. Then the sailors cut therope that held the boat, and it floated away. Nothing was ever seen or heard of it again. It is dreadful tothink what sufferings the poor men in it must have endured, beforethey perished of starvation, though it is possible that they may havelanded on the coast somewhere. It is most likely, however, thatthe rough sea engulfed the little craft. The next year a vessel wassent out to search for some trace of Hudson, but none could befound anywhere on the shores of the bay. For—I am almost sorryto say it—the mutineers reached England at last. Not all of them,however ; Greene and three others were killed by savages when theylanded on the coast of the strait in search of food. The others suf-fered terribly from hunger in their voyage across thy ocean, and theungrateful Juet died, only the day before they ca^/ie in sight of theshores of THE COMING OF THE PILGRIMS. 1620. HE people who spoiled Captain Smiths plan of founding aNew England state were English people called Puritans. For a great many years there had been trouble in theEnglish church. This church had, during the reign ofKing Henry VIII, declared itself independent of theauthority of the pope of Rome; but in denying many ofthe doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic churchpeople could not agree what to throw away and what to keep. Many of the English bishops and other ministers wished to keepall forms of the service without change, when the doctrines of theEnglish church did not forbid them. But there were some peoplewho wished to do away with all forms, which they said were in theway of purity of worship. They said so much about purifying theworship that at last people began to laugh at them and to callthem Puritans. There is no question but that something needed purifying inEngland. It
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