The Mayflower And Her Log, Complete, By Azel Ames


























































































































































 -  Winter was come; the seas were dangerous; the season was
     cold; the winds were high, and the region being well - Page 269
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"Winter Was Come; The Seas Were Dangerous; The Season Was Cold; The Winds Were High, And The Region Being Well

Furnished for a plantation, we entered upon discovery." Tossed for sixty-seven days on the north Atlantic at that season

Of the year, their food and firing well spent, cold, homesick, and ill, the bare thought of once again setting foot on any land, wherever it might be, must have been an allurement that lent Jones potential aid in his high-handed course.]

SATURDAY Nov. 11/21 Comes in with light, fair wind. On course for Cape Cod harbor, along the coast. Some hints of disaffection among colonists, on account of abandonment of location

[Bradford (in Mourt's Relation) says: "This day before we come to harbor Italics the author's, observing some not well affected to unity and concord, but gave some appearance of faction, it was thought good there should be an Association and Agreement that we should combine together in one body; and to submit to such Government and Governors as we should, by common consent, agree to make and choose, and set our hands to this that follows word for word." Then follows the Compact. Bradford is even more explicit in his Historie (Mass. ed. p. 109), where he says: "I shall a little returne backe and begin with a combination made by them before they came ashore, being ye first foundation of their governments in this place; occasioned partly by ye discontent & mutinous speeches that some of the strangers amongst them [i.e. not any of the Leyden contingent had let fall from them in ye ship - That when they came ashore they would use their owne libertie:

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