a small occasion, wee fought also with fortie or fiftie of those:
though some were hurt, and some slaine; yet within an houre after they
became friendes. Cape Cod is the next presents it selfe; which is
onely a headland of high hils of sand, ouergrowne with shrubbie pines,
hurts, and such trash; but an excellent harbor for all weathers. This
Cape is made by the maine Sea on the one side, and a great Bay on the
other in forme of a sickle: on it doth inhabit the people of Pawmet:
and in the bottome of the Bay, the people of Chawum.

[1] From Smith's "Description of New England," published in London
in 1616. Smith's exploration of New England was made after he had
become separated from the Jamestown colony, of which in 1608, he
had been president. He went there under an engagement with London
merchants to fish for cod, barter for furs and explore the country
for settlement. It was he who at the request of Prince Charles
named the country New England.

[2] Probably the Merrimac.




THE FIRST VOYAGE OF THE "MAYFLOWER"

(1620)

BY GOVERNOR WILLIAM BRADFORD[1]


Sept^r: 6. These troubls being blowne over, and now all being compacte