History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . pkins. Oceanus never proved ahelpful Pilgrim, dying in infancy. The first death on theocean was that of William Button, a servant of SamuelFuller. Hence the number of passengers (one hundred andtwo) was practically unchanged, when the Mayflower castanchor in Provincetown Harbor on this, her first voyageto the New World. A second sea burial was of a sailorrumored to be a man of blasphemy meeting his justdeserts, but why just deserts, as all die to live? ThePilgrim and Puritan faith so stalwart, so s
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . pkins. Oceanus never proved ahelpful Pilgrim, dying in infancy. The first death on theocean was that of William Button, a servant of SamuelFuller. Hence the number of passengers (one hundred andtwo) was practically unchanged, when the Mayflower castanchor in Provincetown Harbor on this, her first voyageto the New World. A second sea burial was of a sailorrumored to be a man of blasphemy meeting his justdeserts, but why just deserts, as all die to live? ThePilgrim and Puritan faith so stalwart, so strenuous, so fullof life and energy, w^as naturally shot through with thoughtsof death as an avenger, not a releaser and glorifier. Thesame spirit flashed forth when Cecil Lord Burleigh,* QueenElizabeths great minister, read out of the Bible to thequeen, Bloody and deceitful men shall not live half theirdays. * Cecil Lord Burleigh, while favored with one of the highest positions in thekingdom, was physically an intense sufferer, and of ordinary appearance. THE PILGMMS JOURNEY TO VIRGINIA 295. Copyrighted and reproduced by permission of the Literary Digest, N. Y. Painted by James G. MAYFLOWER OFF CAPE COD, PLOUGHING A PATH FOR LIBERTY. CHAPTER VLANDING OF THE PILGRIMS AND FACTS CONCERNING THE LAND THEY PREEMPTED THE sixty days, or thereabout, required to reach theCape-of-Many-Names, euphoniously called by theIndians Pamet, were in the main were then no scores of lighthouses, duly numberedand stretching from Florida to Eastport, Maine, keptevery night hour up to the highest standard of scienceand efficiency by vigilant men; no army of watchers intheir lonely vigils; nor a host of life savers withmanly courage and finest equipment, such as those whoevery year and often for days in succession, show howNature in her fiercest moods rarely conquers man. Never-theless, having no one to help them, the Pilgrims lookedto the First Cause and discerned, fully bel
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