Of Plymouth Plantation

Of Plymouth Plantation

Chapter IX
OF THEIR VOYAGE, AND HOW THEY PASSED THE SEA; AND OF THEIR SAFE ARRIVAL AT CAPE COD
folk 6 [1620]. These troubles being blown over, and now all being compact together in one ship, they roam to ocean again with a prosperous wind, which continued divers years together, which was some encouragement unto them; yet, according to the usual manner, m any(prenominal) were discompose with seasickness. And I may not omit here a special work of Gods providence. There was a proud and actually profane girlish man, one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would ever be contemning the poor people in their sickness and oath them daily with grievous execrations; and did not let to tell them that he hoped to help to cast half of them overboard before they came to their moves end, and to make merry with what they had; and if he Were by any gently reproved, he would curse and swear most bitterly. merely it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard. Thus his curses percipient on his own head, and it was an astonishment to all his fellows for they noted it to be the just hand of God upon him.




After they had enjoyed fair winds and defy for a season, they were encountered many times with cross winds and met with many fell storms with which the ship was soundly shaken, and her upper works made very leaky; and one of the main beams in the mid-ship was bowed and cracked, which put them in some hero-worship that the ship could not be able to perform the voyage. So some of the chief of the company, perceiving the mariners to fear the insufficiency of the ship as appeared by their mutterings, they entered into serious quotation with the master and other officers of the ship, to consider in time of the danger, and sooner to return than to cast themselves into a desperate and inevitable peril....If you wishing to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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