The Mayflower And Her Log, Complete, By Azel Ames


























































































































































 -   Bradford says:
A lustie yonge man (called John Howland) coming upon some occasion above
ye grattings, was with a seele - Page 97
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Bradford Says: "A Lustie Yonge Man (Called John Howland) Coming Upon Some Occasion Above Ye Grattings, Was With A Seele Of Ye Shipe Throwne Into Ye Sea:

But it pleased God yt he caught hould of ye top-saile halliards which hunge over board & rane out at length yet he held his hould .

. . Till he was haled up," etc. Howland had evidently just come from below upon the poop-deck (as there would be no "grattings" open in the waist to receive the heavy seas shipped). The ship was clearly experiencing "heavy weather" and a great lurch ("seele") which at the stern, and on the high, swinging, tilting poop-deck would be most severely felt, undoubtedly tossed him over the rail. The topsail halliards were probably trailing alongside and saved him, as they have others under like circumstances.

Whether or not the MAY-FLOWER had the "round house" under her poop-deck, - -a sort of circular-end deck-house, more especially the quarters, by day, of the officers and favored passengers; common, but apparently not universal, in vessels of her class, - we have no positive knowledge, but the presumption is that she had, as passenger ships like the PARAGON (of only 140 tons), and others of less tonnage, seem to have been so fitted!

It is plain that, in addition to the larger cabin space and the smaller cabins, - "staterooms," nowadays, - common to ships of the MAY-FLOWER'S size and class, the large number of her passengers, and especially of women and children, made it necessary to construct other cabins between decks.

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