. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . hours after my father had decided to make ahome on the land which the king had given William ON BOARD SHIP Perm, I did not have the disagreeable opportunity ofraising dismal forebodings regarding the long voyagebefore us. I knew nothing whatsoever of a seamans life; buthad heard that he who goes on the ocean for the firsttime must expect to be ill. There was never a thoughtthat the illness of the sea was a sickness that seeminglybrought one nigh unto death, but the ship was hardly more than out of theport, before I believedof a verity that
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . hours after my father had decided to make ahome on the land which the king had given William ON BOARD SHIP Perm, I did not have the disagreeable opportunity ofraising dismal forebodings regarding the long voyagebefore us. I knew nothing whatsoever of a seamans life; buthad heard that he who goes on the ocean for the firsttime must expect to be ill. There was never a thoughtthat the illness of the sea was a sickness that seeminglybrought one nigh unto death, but the ship was hardly more than out of theport, before I believedof a verity that my lasthour was near at it seemed tome that I could not liveany longer, the illnessbegan to leave me,and from that timeuntil we were come toPenns land, the sea,however violent, couldnot cause me uneasi-ness so far as con-cerned my it was, that I began to take delight in thusvoyaging on the ocean, and again and again did I spenda full day at a time, watching the onrush of the shipthrough the curling, dizzying waves which at one. i6 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA time appeared so beautiful, and at another were sothreatening that it aroused fear in ones heart simplyto glance at them. When I stood by the rail in the hinder part of theship, it was as if a big lump came into my throat onseeing her dive into the green valleys of water, andagain rise on the foaming monntains, as if eager tobring us speedily to our new home. When I was not thus engaged in watching the move-ments of the vessel, I listened to the conversation of myelders, which was, as you may suppose, chiefly con-cerning the land to which we were voyaging. AN UNKNOWN COUNTRY By such use of my ears I learned much that seemedto me strange, chief among which was the fact that myfather and the other men who had taken passage onthe John and Sarah had bought land in a city whichwas yet to be built, but had already been named Phila-delphia. At the time, however, no one knew in what spotthat city would be made, t
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