IV COMPANIONS WHO ARRIVED IN “THE FORTUNE” AND “THE ANN” 93 INDEX 109 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ERRATA Page 49 (And foot-notes elsewhere) read _The Mayflower Descendant_ for Mayflower Descendants. 49 Foot-note, read _53 Mt. Vernon St._ for 9 Ashburton Pl. 78 Line 21, read _two hundred and seventy_ for seventy. 79 Line 12, read _inventory_ for will. 82 Line 12, omit Revolutionary. 84 Lines 4 and 5, read _Edward Winslow and Peregrine White_ for William Mullins and Miles Standish. 84 Line 21, read _Petty coate with silke Lace_ for Pretty, etc. 86 Line 25, read _step-mother_ for mother. 88 Line 10, read _eighty_ for ninety years. 98 Line 14, read _Abraham_ for Alexander. 102 Line 9, read _Mercy_ for Mary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I ENDURANCE AND ADVENTURE: THE VOYAGE AND LANDING “_So they left ye goodly and pleasante citie, which had been ther resting-place near 12. years; but they knew they were pilgrimes, & looked not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to ye heavens, their dearest cuntrie, and quieted their spirits._” —_Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantations. Chap. VII._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER I ENDURANCE AND ADVENTURE: THE VOYAGE AND LANDING December weather in New England, even at its best, is a test of physical endurance. With warm clothes and sheltering homes today, we find compensations for the cold winds and storms in the exhilarating winter sports and the good cheer of the holiday season. The passengers of _The Mayflower_ anchored in Plymouth harbor, three hundred years ago, lacked compensations of sports or fireside warmth. One hundred and two in number when they sailed,—of whom twenty-nine were women,—they had been crowded for ten weeks into a vessel that was intended to carry about half the number of passengers. In low spaces between decks, with some fine weather when the open hatchways allowed air to enter and more stormy days when they were shut in amid discomforts of all kinds, they had come at last within sight of the place where, contrary to their plans, they were destined to make their settlement.