. A history of the United States. in the ship nine weeks the little company was tossed about on therough seas of the North Atlantic, living in narrow, unwhole-some quarters, as the first emigrants to Virginia had donethirteen years before. Choosing a Place for Settlement. — The Pilgrims hadplanned to setlle somewhere in the neighborhood of theHudson or the Delaware River, in what was then regardedas the northern part of Virginia. But after the Mayflowerpassed Cape Cod it came upon dangerous shoals. Thestormy season had set in, and winter was fast coming plan to go farther
. A history of the United States. in the ship nine weeks the little company was tossed about on therough seas of the North Atlantic, living in narrow, unwhole-some quarters, as the first emigrants to Virginia had donethirteen years before. Choosing a Place for Settlement. — The Pilgrims hadplanned to setlle somewhere in the neighborhood of theHudson or the Delaware River, in what was then regardedas the northern part of Virginia. But after the Mayflowerpassed Cape Cod it came upon dangerous shoals. Thestormy season had set in, and winter was fast coming plan to go farther was, therefore, abandoned, and asite for a settlement was sought nearer at hand. 52 THE PILGRIMS AND PLYMOUTH The Mayflower Compact. — Steps were also taken toensure orderly government in the colony after men held a meeting in the cabin of the Mayflower,chose one of their number, John Carver, to be their gov-ernor, and signed a solemn compact or agreement to submitto the laws which should be made by the Departure of the Pilgrims from Delft HavenFrom a famous old Dutch painting Beginnings of Plymouth. — A party of explorers in a boatleft the ship at Cape Cod and explored the coast. On Mon-day, December 21, 1620, they landed at a place which CaptainJohn Smith had already seen. He had given the nameNew England to the region from Nova Scotia to Cape Cod,and the name Plymouth to the well-sheltered harbor intowhich the Pilgrims now sailed.^ This also happened to be 1 In 1614 Captain John Smith, having recovered from his accident in Vir-ginia, made a voyage of exploration along the American coast from JMaine toCape Cod. He wrote a description of what he called New England, and alsodrew a map of the region. He presented the map to Prince Charles, then aboy of fifteen, who afterward became King Charles I. Charles and Smithchanged about 30 barbarous Indian names to familiar English and Scotch SETTLEMENT AT PLYMOUTH 53 the name of the last EngHsh port which th
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