: The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Marble Annie Russell - Mayflower (Ship); Massachusetts History Colonial period ca. 1600-1775; Women Massachusetts

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I ENDURANCE AND ADVENTURE: THE VOYAGE AND LANDING 3

II COMMUNAL AND FAMILY LIFE IN PLYMOUTH 1621-1623 21

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ENDURANCE AND ADVENTURE: THE VOYAGE AND LANDING

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.

At Plymouth, England, their last port in September, they had "been kindly entertained and courteously used by divers friends there dwelling," but they were homeless now, facing a new country with frozen shores, menaced by wild animals and yet more fearsome savages. Whatever trials of their good sense and sturdy faith came later, those days of waiting until shelter could be raised on shore, after the weeks of confinement, must have challenged their physical and spiritual fortitude.

There must have been exciting days for the women on shipboard and in landing. There must have been hours of distress for the older and the delight in adventure which is an unchanging trait of the young of every race. Wild winds carried away some clothes and cooking-dishes from the ship; there was a birth and a death, and occasional illness, besides the dire seasickness. John Howland, "the lustie young man," fell overboard but he caught hold of the topsail halyard which hung extended and so held on "though he was sundry fathoms under water," until he was pulled up by a rope and rescued by a boat-hook.

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