History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . to do to theMayflower, they have succeeded in doing disastrously toover two thousand staunch and goodly vessels from thathour to the present. A stroll along shore will frequentlybring into view and touch prey of the sea semi-engulfed insand. In the front rank of the very first of those two thousandor more vessels that have gone down before billows ofthe Cape, is this gaunt ribbed sea-speeder, the Sparrow-hawk, which Governor Bradford tells us was wrecked, in1626, at Orleans. It is the privilege of
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . to do to theMayflower, they have succeeded in doing disastrously toover two thousand staunch and goodly vessels from thathour to the present. A stroll along shore will frequentlybring into view and touch prey of the sea semi-engulfed insand. In the front rank of the very first of those two thousandor more vessels that have gone down before billows ofthe Cape, is this gaunt ribbed sea-speeder, the Sparrow-hawk, which Governor Bradford tells us was wrecked, in1626, at Orleans. It is the privilege of the visitor to Pil-grim Hall, Plymouth, to put his hand on the keel, stern-post and rudder of the time-worn, sand-thrashed, worm-eaten lower works of the craft built along Mayflower lines,though much smaller, three centuries and more ago. Againwe call attention to the relatively large size of the May-flower, yet, if there was contrast in 1620, let us think of1909, when the exact model of Henry Hudsons ship TheHalf Moon was carried over the Atlantic as freight on a LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS 299. THE ELEVEN DIVINE RIGHTERS. BARRING CROMWELL, WHO FANCIEDTHEY RULED NEW ENGLAND. 1-23 300 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS part of the fore deck of a steamer of the Holland-Americanline without disturbing passengers and scarcely limiting thespace for promenading. Though but two on the Mayflower are known to havecome from Scrooby, most of the passengers were more orless of pure English blood, that is, born in England,though the names both in Leyden and in New Plymouthshow Flemish, Walloon, French, and Dutch ancestry amongmales and females. No Hebrew, Irishman or Scotchman, sofar as known, were passengers in that first Mayflower,though people of Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and Netherlandishdescent came in the later Pilgrim ships. That Leyden Separatist community, with its eightnationalities represented, was a true type of the AmericanRepublic, and its spirit of harmony a true symbol of gen-u
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