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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Book XIV: the Pilgrims at Plymouth (A. D. 1620-1621.) (search)
of oars. The seas were grown so great, that we were much troubled and in great danger; and night drew on. Anon Master Coppin bade us be of good cheer: he saw the harbor. As we drew near, the gale being stiff, and we bearing great sail to get in, split our mast in three pieces, and were like to have cast away our shallop. Yet by God's mercy, recovering ourselves, we had the flood Tide. with us, and struck into the harbor. Now he that thought that had been the place was Sunday on Clark's island. deceived, it being a place where not any of us had been before; and, coming into the harbor, he that was our pilot did bear up northward, which if we had continued we had been cast away. Yet still the Lord kept us, and we bare up for an island Clark's Island. It was named after the mate of the Mayflower, who is said to have been the first to land there. before us; and recovering of that island, being compassed about with many rocks, and dark night growing upon us, it pleased