It Was A Vexatious
Travesty Upon History (Though Perpetuated By Parties Who Ought To
Have Been Correct) That The Association
For building the Pilgrim
Monument at Plymouth should issue a pamphlet giving a picture of the
"Landing of the Pilgrims,
December 21, 1620," in which women are
pictured, and in which the shallop is shown with a large
fore-and-aft mainsail, while on the same page is another picture
entitled, "The Shallop of the MAY-FLOWER," having a large yard and
square-sail, and a "Cuddy" (which last the MAY-FLOWER'S shallop we
know did not have). The printed description of the picture,
however, says: "The cut is copied from a picture by Van der Veldt,
a Dutch painter of the seventeenth century, representing a
shallop," etc. It is matter of regret to find that a book like
Colonel T. W. Higginson's 'Book of American Explorers', intended
for a text-book, and bearing the imprint of a house like Longmans,
Green & Co. should actually print a "cut" showing Mary Chilton
landing from a boat full of men (in which she is the only woman)
upon a rock, presumably Plymouth Rock.]
THURSDAY, Dec. 21/31
At anchor, Plymouth harbor. Wet and
stormy, so the Planters could not go ashore
as planned, having blown hard and rained
extremely all night. Very uncomfortable
for the party on shore. So tempestuous
that the shallop could not go to land as
soon as was meet, for they had no victuals
on land. About eleven o'clock the shallop
went off with much ado with provision, but
could not return, it blew so strong.
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