. New England; a human interest geographical reader. flower and rec-ommended this spot for a settlement, and the littlevessel sailed over to Plymouth Bay. For a time mostof the Pilgrims continued to dwell on her, and not untilJanuary 31 did they all disembark. April had comebefore the Mayflower sailed back to England. The first undertaking of the Pilgrims when, inmidwinter, they started their settlement, was to builda large cabin for their common shelter. They finishedit in about three weeks. It had hewn log walls andwas twenty feet square. Twice, before the winter wasover, the thatched roof c
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. flower and rec-ommended this spot for a settlement, and the littlevessel sailed over to Plymouth Bay. For a time mostof the Pilgrims continued to dwell on her, and not untilJanuary 31 did they all disembark. April had comebefore the Mayflower sailed back to England. The first undertaking of the Pilgrims when, inmidwinter, they started their settlement, was to builda large cabin for their common shelter. They finishedit in about three weeks. It had hewn log walls andwas twenty feet square. Twice, before the winter wasover, the thatched roof caught on fire from sparks outof the chimney and was burned, leaving only the frametimbers, buteach time thethatch wassoon renewed. By springseven separatefamily log hutswere c o m-pleted. Theywere very smalland rude, andwere all alike. Oiled paper served instead of glass inthe little window openings. Soon after the Pilgrims landed, Francis Billingtonclimbed to the top of a tree and discovered a broadpond about two miles from the settlement. He mis-. The pond which Francis BilHngton mistookfor a great sea 52 New England took it for a great sea, and it has been called Billing-ton Sea ever since. While John Goodman and Peter Brown were cuttingcoarse grass and flags for thatch one winter day, theysaw a deer and pursued it with the result that they gotlost. They had no food, and all night they walkedback and forth under a tree to keep from weather was very cold; and they were in greatfear of wolves which they heard howling. It was latethe next afternoon when they found their way back tothe settlement. Several times during the first month the settlerssaw in the distance smoke and fires which could havebeen made only by Indians, and on three occasionssome of the natives themselves were seen. In April,while a council was being held, an Indian namedSquanto walked in and accosted the gathering in Eng-lish. He was chief of a tribe living in Maine, wherehe had met many English
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