Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ OLD CAPE COD THE LAND: THE MEN: THE SEA [Illustration: THE OLD FIGUREHEAD] OLD CAPE COD THE LAND: THE MEN THE SEA BY MARY ROGERS BANGS [Illustration: Decoration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY MARY ROGERS BANGS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. TO S. A. B. CONTENTS I. THE LAND 1 II. THE OLD COLONY 19 III. THE TOWNS 56 IV. THE FRENCH WARS 97 V. THE ENGLISH WARS 118 VI. THEOLOGY AND WHALING 158 VII. STORMS AND PIRATES 176 VIII. OLD SEA WAYS 203 IX. THE CAPTAINS 221 X. THE COUNTY 259 XI. GENIUS LOCI 291 ILLUSTRATIONS THE OLD FIGUREHEAD _Frontispiece_ THE SHORE ROAD 6 A FIRST COMER 58 THE CREEK 112 THE FISH-HOUSE 164 THE CAP’N’S 222 THE MEADOWS 270 THE PASTURE BARS 294 _The end-paper maps are_ (1) _a modern map of_ Cape Cod _and_ (2) _a facsimile of a part of_ Captain Cyprian Southack’s map (_see page_ 300) OLD CAPE COD [Illustration: asterism] CHAPTER I THE LAND I