. Colonial children . n pieces of voyage to 1 • 1 r 1 • • t«i • 1 • New Eng- ordnance, with a crew or thirty manners, ihis ship iand,madecarried more than a hundred planters, six goats, five during the £ 1 n r ? last summer. great pieces or ordnance, with all manner of ammuni- Reeunontion and provisions for the Plantation for a twelfth- the 25th ofmonth. Apri1l629- The second ship was called the George. This Planters =also was a strong ship of about three hundred tons, seUlcrs-with a crew of thirty mariners. Her general cargo Plantation =was of cattle, twelve mares, thirty cows, and some s
. Colonial children . n pieces of voyage to 1 • 1 r 1 • • t«i • 1 • New Eng- ordnance, with a crew or thirty manners, ihis ship iand,madecarried more than a hundred planters, six goats, five during the £ 1 n r ? last summer. great pieces or ordnance, with all manner of ammuni- Reeunontion and provisions for the Plantation for a twelfth- the 25th ofmonth. Apri1l629- The second ship was called the George. This Planters =also was a strong ship of about three hundred tons, seUlcrs-with a crew of thirty mariners. Her general cargo Plantation =was of cattle, twelve mares, thirty cows, and some settlement or colony. goats. She had fifty-two planters on board. 26 On the Sea [No. 10 This is notthe cele-brated The third ship was called the Lions Whelp, andwas a nimble ship of one hundred and twenty-twotons, carrying many mariners and over forty planterswith provisions. The fourth ship was called the Four Sisters. The fifth ship was called the Mayflower. This didcarry both passengers and A bllli AMONG FLYING FISH. voyage of theMayflowerto Plymouth;that hadbeen nineyears earlier. Gravesend,at the mouthof the The George having some special urgent reasons forhastening her passage set sail before the rest, aboutthe middle of April. We who took ship in the Tal-bot and the Lions Whelp hoisted sail from Graves-end on Saturday, the 25th of April. On Tuesday,a week later, we entered the channel early in themorning, and passed by Portsmouth very slowly for No. 10] An Emigrant 27 the wind was weak and calm. In the afternoon thewind slackened and we were forced to anchor, a littlethis side of Cowes Castle, where I and my wife anddaughter Mary, the two mates, and some others withus obtained leave from the master of the ship to goashore to wash our linen, but the wind turning whenwe were absent, they hoisted sail and left us there atCowes. Wednesday, early in the morning a shallop wassent from the ship to fetch us to Yarmouth, but theweather proved rough and our
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