“High as the shaft may tower over headland and bay; deep as its foundation-stones may rest; brightly as it may gleam in the rising or setting sun upon the mariner returning in the very furrow that the keel of the Mayflower made, the principles of common-sense, a citizen soldier’s education for a citizen soldier’s work, the principles of moral truth, manly honesty, prudent energy, fidelity incorruptible, courage undauntable, all the qualities of manhood that compel unflinching execution of the states’ behest,--are firmer and higher and brighter still. And to crown them all is reverence to the Supreme Executive of Earth and Heaven, who knows no feebleness of heart or hand, and whose great purpose moved the war-worn Pilgrim’s feet to seek his home upon this rock-bound continent, where the unceasing waves of two unfettered oceans roar the choral hymn of Freedom.” THE END. FOOTNOTES [1] Winslow’s Briefe Narrative, p. 31. [2] Bradford, 25, 26. [3] Works of Sir Walter Raleigh. [4] Mourt’s Narrative. [5] Mourt’s Narrative. [6] A musket with a flint lock. [7] Johnson’s Wonder Working Providence. [8] Note to Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims. [9] A Duck. [10] Mourt’s Relation. [11] The bill of mortality, according to Prince, which he copied from Bradford, was as follows: In December, six died; in January, eight; in February, seventeen; in March, thirteen; total, forty-four. [12] Made of maize or Indian corn. [13] James I., then King of England, had been a widower for about a year. [14] This was probably the fish called _tataug_. [15] Abbott’s Life of King Philip. [16] Mr. Drake, in his History of Boston, supposes that the “cliff” alluded to must have been that pile of rocks now called “the chapel,” in Quincy Bay. [17] The Fortune. [18] It will be remembered that, as half of their number had died, seven houses accommodated the survivors. [19] Morton, in his New English Canaan, writes: “There is a fish, by some called shads, that at the spring of the year pass up the rivers to spawn in the ponds, and are taken in such multitudes in every river that hath a pond at the end, that the inhabitants dung their ground with them. You may see in one township a hundred acres together set with these fish, every acre taking a thousand of them. And an acre thus dressed will produce and yield so much corn as three acres without fish.” It was the rule of the Indians to plant their corn when the leaves of the white oak were as big as the ear of a mouse. They put two or three fishes in every cornhill. [20] Probably Martha’s Vineyard, then called Capawock. [21] Subsequently Mr. Winslow wrote, correcting this statement: “Whereas, myself and others, in former letters, wrote that the Indians about us are a people without any religion or knowledge of any God, therein I erred, though we could then gather no better.”--Winslow’s Good News. [22] There is some uncertainty about this word, but this is probably the true reading.