. Our country in story . curethe success of his colony by remaining at home and theredefending and supporting its cause, appointed his youngerbrother, Leonard, to govern Maryland in his stead. Two ships, the Ark and the Dove, soon set out for theNew World. They carried twenty men of rank and learn-ing with their families, and also some two hundred labor-ers and tradesmen. This company was composed of bothCatholics and Protestants. There were as yet no mission-aries among them. England, having banished everyCatholic priest from her domains, had none to give. Butby an arrangement of Lord Baltimo
. Our country in story . curethe success of his colony by remaining at home and theredefending and supporting its cause, appointed his youngerbrother, Leonard, to govern Maryland in his stead. Two ships, the Ark and the Dove, soon set out for theNew World. They carried twenty men of rank and learn-ing with their families, and also some two hundred labor-ers and tradesmen. This company was composed of bothCatholics and Protestants. There were as yet no mission-aries among them. England, having banished everyCatholic priest from her domains, had none to give. Butby an arrangement of Lord Baltimore, four Jesuits—Fathers Andrew White and John Altham, and two ON THE BANKS OF THE POTOMAC 143 Brothers—had come from France to the Isle of Wight andthere were taken on board the vessels bound for emigrants left from Cowes on the Isle of Wighton St. Cecilias day, 1633. After a four months stormyvoyage by way of the West Indies, they finally sailed intothe peaceful waters of Chesapeake Bay. It was a sunny. LANDING OF THE MARYLAND COLONISTS day of March, twenty-seven years after the Jamestownsettlers had entered the same water. Following the routetaken by the little Spanish craft which fifty years earlierhad brought hither the Jesuit missionaries and the treach-erous Don Luis, they steered directly for the eastern bankof the Potomac and cast anchor near an island not farfrom the shore. Landing on this island, which is now amere sandbank, they called it St. Clements in honor of theday. Holy Mass was celebrated. Then a large cross was 144 OUR COUNTRY IN STORY erected, and the Litany sung on bended knee and withbowed head. The island being too small for a settlement, the partyproceeded upon along the eastern bank of the Potomac insearch of a better site. They soon came upon an Indian vil-lage near the mouth of a small stream. Here they landedon the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin in1634. It so happened that the natives were about to moveelsewhere. Th
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