Furthermore, the town was more than restored quite soon. Captain John Smith printed a description of Plymouth in 1624 which, in addition to information about the government and economy of the settlement, reported that “At New Plymouth is about 180 persons, some cattle and goats, but many swine and poultry; thirty-two dwelling houses, whereof seven were burnt the last winter, and the value of five hundred pounds in other goods. The town is impaled about half a mile in compass. In the town upon a high mount they have a fort well built with wood, loam and stone, where is planted their ordnance; also a fair watchtower, partly framed, for the sentinel.” This passage, in original spelling, may be found in “Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles,” edition of 1624, reprinted in Edward Arber and A. G. Bradley (eds.), _Travels and Works of Captain John Smith_ (1910), II, 782. [92]Plymouth. The ship was anchored outside Plymouth harbor when the storm blew up and almost drove her on the flats called Brown’s Islands. [93]Englishmen of the seventeenth century thought life barely possible without beer. [94]Altham’s nephews, sons of Sir Edward. [95]See notes 21, 23, 25 to preceding letter. [96]Old family servants. See preceding letter. [97]On the _Charity_. [98]The troublemaker probably was one of the men drowned in the wreck of the _Little James_ (see below). The sailors of the pinnace, however, had been discontented since early in the voyage. They believed they had signed on for privateering, to get their pay in shares of prize ships. After a near mutiny at Plymouth, Gov. Bradford helped arrange regular wages for them, and kept them on the ship for the exploration of southern New England, but they still insisted that they would not go on a fishing voyage. “A Letter of William Bradford and Isaac Allerton, 1623,” _American Historical Review_, VIII (1902-03), 296. [99]William Peirce was to be shipmaster of the _Charity_ on her return voyage. Edward Winslow had returned from England on that ship. [100]In 1624 all goods in the general storehouse at Plymouth belonged to the Company. [101]Probably they took supplies from the trading post near the mouth of the Piscataqua River (near modern Portsmouth, N. H.) kept by David Thompson. In his will, Altham left 40s. to a mistress Thomson in New England, presumably the man’s widow, as repayment of a debt she did not know of. [102]At Damariscove Island, off Maine. The harbor usually gave ships good protection in rough weather. [103]“A sentence written lengthways in the margin, and not completed.” J. F. Jameson, in Massachusetts Historical Society, _Proceedings_, XLIV, 184n. [104]’Ere. [105]From Plymouth.