The Mayflower And Her Log, Complete, By Azel Ames


























































































































































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While It Was Feasible, When Lying Quietly At Anchor In A Land-Locked Harbor, With Abundance Of Fire-Wood At Hand, To Have A Fire, About Which They Could Gather, Even If Only Upon The "Sand-Hearth" Of The Early Navigators, When Upon Boisterous Seas, In Mid-Ocean, "Lying .

. . In their cabins" was the only means of keeping warm possible to voyagers. In "Good Newes from New England," we find the lines:

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"Close cabins being now prepared, With bred, bief, beire, and fish, The passengers prepare themselves, That they might have their wish."

Her magazine, carpenter's and sailmaker's lockers, etc., were doubtless well forward under her forecastle, easily accessible from the spar-deck, as was common to merchant vessels of her class and size. Dr. Young, in his "Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers" (p. 86, note), says: "This vessel was less than the average size of the fishing-smacks that go to the Grand Banks. This seems a frail bark in which to cross a stormy ocean of three thousand miles in extent. Yet it should be remembered that two of the ships of Columbus on his first daring and perilous voyage of discovery, were light vessels, without decks, little superior to the small craft that ply on our rivers and along our coasts . . . . Frobisher's fleet consisted of two barks of twenty-five tons each and a pinnace of ten tons, when he sailed in 1576 to discover a north-west passage to the Indies. Sir Francis Drake, too, embarked on his voyage for circumnavigating the globe, in 1577, with five vessels, of which the largest was of one hundred, and the smallest fifteen tons.

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