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a Bully On the Ship
There was a young man that went out of the way to make people's lives miserable on the ship. He was one of those proud, rude, and irreverent people. "He would always be condeming the poor people in their sickness and cursing them daily with grievous exercations." The bully soon died from disease and the other passangers believed it was God helping them out. The bully was gone; he taught the other passangers not to act like that because they may be punished as well. -
Ship Begins to Fall Apart
They had problems during the whole journey. Now, the ship was their problem. "They would caulk them as well as they could, and though with the working of the ship they would not long keep staunch (watertight), yet there would otherwise be no great danger, if they did not overpress her with sails. So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed." They had to learn how to work with what they had. -
Mayflower Landed
The Mayflower landed in Cape Cod. The colonists were still not as happy as they could have been because of the fact that there is not anyone to help them. They have nothing. There is no one to help their sick. They don't even have homes yet. They still had a long way to go even though they already made it to Cape Cod. "They had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weather-beaten bodies." They were relying on God to help them get through this time. -
The Storm
The whole ship went through some of the worst weathers during their journey. Some were not easy to get through and that was just another thing they relied on God for. “And in one of them, as they thus lay at hull in a mighty storm, a lusty young man called John Howland, coming upon some occasion above the gratings was, with a seele (sudden lurch) of the ship, thrown into sea; but it pleased God that he caught hold of the topsail halyards which hung overboard and ran out at length." -
The Diseases
There was no one there to help the sick when they first landed in Cape Cod. Many people were sick and they didn't think they would live much longer. “And yet the Lord so upheld these persons as in this general calamity they were not at all infected either with sickness or lameness," there were finally people who would stay and take care of them. They're not there to heal them, but to make sure they're comfortable and stable. The pilgrims thought it was God who finally made them better.
