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Title: The Pilgrims and their monument
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Carpenter, Edmund J. (Edmund Janes), 1845-1924
Subjects: Provincetown, Mass. Pilgrim monument Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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amination showed unquestionably that the new spars
with which the vessel had been provided were much
too heavy for her, and to attempt the voyage in her
would be nothing short of suicide for all on board.
In this dilemma a council was held, and some of
the party who had grown faint-hearted decided to
abandon the voyage. These were eighteen in number,
including, of course, the crew of the Speedwell. The
remaining twelve were put on board the already over-
crowded Mayflower, making a ship's company of one
hundred and two. With this party the final sailing
was made on the sixth day of September, 1620, and
the prow of the Mayflower was once more turned
westward.
The troubles which beset the party at the beginning
by no means disappeared as the voyage progressed.
Severe autumnal storms overtook the vessel and drove
her up and down the ocean and far out of her course.
One of the great beams of the upperworks of the
vessel became badly sprung, and for a time it was
feared that the loss of this brace would prove to be

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THE PILGRIMS SIGHTING THE HIGHLANDS OF CAPE COD.
FROM A MURAL PAINTING BY HENRY OLIVER WALKER

IX

THE
MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE, BOSTON.

THE VOYAGE OF THE MAYFLOWER

a fatal disaster; but, by means of a strong jack, which
one of the mechanics of the party had fortunately
brought with him, the necessary repairs were made
and the vessel staggered on. More than two months
were passed in the voyage before land was sighted.
At daybreak, on the ninth day of November, a head-
land loomed up from the sea, which was after a time
identified as the highlands of Cape Cod. So far
north was this of their intended destination that the
Mayflovcer turned her prow southward. But a few
hours later they found themselves in shoal water and
with breakers upon the bow. The captain turned
eastward to escape wreck and, taking a yvide circuit,
skirted the extremity of Cape Cod, entered the bay,
and at length dropped anchor in the safe and quiet
harbor of Cape Cod, now known as the harbor of
Provincetown.

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