. New England; a human interest geographical reader. e corn slung on a staff, and another ofthem brought the noose of an Indian deer trap thathad caught him by the leg. About a fortnight later a second exploring partywas gone for three days. They shot a number ofgeese and ducks, discovered some Indian graves, twoempty wigwams, and more corn, ten bushels of whichthey brought away for planting. The next year,when several of them again visited the Cape, theysought out the owners of the corn and paid for whatthey had taken. One tragic incident of the Mayflowers stay atProvincetown was the falling
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. e corn slung on a staff, and another ofthem brought the noose of an Indian deer trap thathad caught him by the leg. About a fortnight later a second exploring partywas gone for three days. They shot a number ofgeese and ducks, discovered some Indian graves, twoempty wigwams, and more corn, ten bushels of whichthey brought away for planting. The next year,when several of them again visited the Cape, theysought out the owners of the corn and paid for whatthey had taken. One tragic incident of the Mayflowers stay atProvincetown was the falling overboard and drowningof the wife of William Bradford. While the vessel still lay in the harbor PeregrineWhite was born. He was called Peregrine to com-memorate the fact that the Pilgrims were still on theirperegrinations, or travels. The General Court laterhonored this first English baby born in New England bygiving him two hundred acres of land. He grewup to be a man of ability and lived to the age of eighty-four, vigorous and comely to the Plymouth Rock and its protecting canopyPlymouth and the Pilgrims IN December, 1620, a party left the Mayflower,which was at Provincetown, and set out in the shipsshallop to explore the inner coast of Cape Cod. Theshallop was a small vessel equipped with a mast and oars, and the party consisted of twelve Pilgrims and 48 Plymouth and the Pilgrims 49 six of the ships crew. In the afternoon of the thirdday of their voyage a sudden storm of snow and raincame on them, the sea grew dangerously rough, andtheir rudder broke. Afterward it was all that two mencould do to steer with oars. To add to their troublesthe mast snapped off, and the sail went overboard. They narrowly escaped being wrecked, but at last,when the short winter day had come to an end anddarkness was about them, they found refuge in Plym-outh Bay and anchored under shelter of an went on shore and with considerable difficultystarted a fire. It was midnight before
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